Posted on 10/08/2004 8:10:04 AM PDT by Mia T
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Friday, October 8, 2004
A Dangerous Man
Arms inspector Charles Duelfer has just delivered the most exhaustive findings so far on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. As anyone even faintly aware of the report must know by now, Duelfer and his team found no WMD stockpiles and concluded that Iraqi WMD capability was "essentially destroyed" after the 1991 Gulf War.
The anti-war media have been quick to seize on that angle, kicking off stories with agitprop leads like this one from The Associated Press' Ken Guggenheim:
"Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991."
Fortunately, we live in the Internet era where Americans can easily find the facts. The Duelfer report is online at http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html, with good summaries in "Key Findings" and the Duelfer's "Transmission Letter."
Drawing not just on inspections but also on debriefings of regime officials -- including Saddam himself -- Duelfer gives us the best window yet into the dictator's long-term strategy. From all sources the message was clear: Saddam's first order of business, after his own survival, was to break the United Nations sanctions so that he could resume the WMD program. He came close to succeeding.
Forced to scrap most of his WMD after the first Gulf War, Saddam, Duelfer says, took pains to preserve know-how so that production could start quickly when sanctions were lifted. Sanctions lasted longer than Saddam had hoped, but by the end of the 1990s, his propaganda and bribery program -- the U.N. oil-for-food program came in handy -- had done its work. The sanctions were cracking.
After 9-11, with sharp prodding from the U.S., the U.N. rediscovered its backbone for a time and forced him to re-admit inspectors. Saddam's French and Russian allies insisted that the inspections run their course. The U.S. and Britain decided on war instead.
That decision has never looked better than it does now.
If Saddam's friends had prevailed, the inspections would have played into his hands. Having mothballed his WMD program, he would have received the U.N.'s clean bill of health and the sanctions would have been lifted.
In short order, he would have restarted his chemical, biological and nuclear programs, with plenty of oil money to buy materials and produce quick results. His contacts with al-Qaida might then have firmed up into an operational alliance. And the U.S. would be begging fruitlessly for global action, as it now does with Iran.
The situation in Iraq today, as President Bush likes to say, is "tough." But it's not the strategic nightmare that it would have been if Saddam had been allowed to stay.
On Wednesday, Sen. John Warner asked Duelfer if he thought the world is better off with Saddam out of power. "I'm an analyst, and I realize I'm in a political world right now," Duelfer began.
But Warner pressed him further, and Duelfer went on: "But I have to agree. Analytically, the world is better off."
His report, in its scrupulously impartial way, makes just that point.
addam Hussein was a dangerous man.
This is the inescapable, bottom-line conclusion of arms inspector Charles Duelfer. (Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD, 30 September 2004)
If we accept Duelfer's findings, then we must also accept the corollary: If Saddam Hussein was a dangerous man, then so too is John Kerry. A Commander-in-Chief Kerry would never have acted preemptively to remove Saddam Hussein.
For this reason, old media, arthritic and in the throes of death even before it was Dan Rathered, is ignoring the essence of the Duelfer report, focusing instead on "no WMDs"-- a matter of relevance to presidential fitness only insofar as it exposes Kerry's lack thereof. (A relevance, which, of course, old media is ignoring.)
During his 34 years on the public stage, John Kerry did his damnedest to decimate America's intelligence as well as military capacity to confront the enemy.
John Kerry is a very dangerous man.
It is critical that George Bush and Dick Cheney frame the ENTIRE DEBATE FROM NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 2ND ON THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE LETHAL DANGER THAT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF KERRY WOULD POSE FOR OUR COUNTRY, OUR CHILDREN, THE WORLD.
WHICH DANGEROUS MAN?
préemption et l'essai global
POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST DANGEREUX POUR L'AMÉRIQUE
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Iraq: You wouldn't know it from the headlines, but the new WMD report explains why Saddam Hussein was a threat and why the U.S. was right to remove him.
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
election update!
JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT~THE SERIES
YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS:
THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS!
DEBATE ONE
NO GYP SHEET
Est-ce que je peux?
préemption et l'essai global
KERRY'S "GLOBAL TEST" FOR PREEMPTION:
WHY SECURITY MOMS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH
Diane Sawyer Nails Kerry Peril
PREEMPTION + KERRY'S EX POST FACTO REASONING
WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is (to mix war metaphors) Kerry's Achilles' heel
Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay
YOO-HOO DAN RATHER!
KERRY'S BELATED "HONORABLE" DISCHARGE:
Is a less-than-honorable discharge and clinton "pardon" behind Kerry's refusal to sign form 180 to release ALL of his records?
RATHERGATE IS ANOTHER WATERGATE: The Nexus
CARL BERNSTEIN: RATHERGATE MAY BE ANOTHER WATERGATE
CLUELESS: O'REILLY AND PODHORETZ ON RATHERGATE
THE KERRY-RATHER-BARNES FORGERIES DECONSTRUCTED
HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax)
CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL
KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE
KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATION
PART 1: advice from bill
Kerry's new W offensive
YOO-HOO! UNDECIDEDS + "PERSUADABLES"
HEAR THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR
(WHY INFORMED, RATIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER
EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND
Kerry is UNFIT #21: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE
The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
Kerry is UNFIT #20: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
PREEMPTION-(the whole ball of wax)
CONTEMPLATING KERRY'S "GUT"
A PRESIDENT KERRY MAY BE ABHORRENT
...BUT IS IT EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL?
getting kerry's goat
john kerry lacks presidential temperament
Two Psychologists on Kerry: Dangerous on National Security
YOO-HOO! followthemoney.org. . .
OVER HERE!
"bombastic ass" is not the antidote to "boorish ass"
(or why Keith Olbermann Cannot Do Cleanup for Chris Matthews)
UNFIT #19:
JOHN KERRY'S "MORE SENSITIVE WAR ON TERROR"
THE COMPLEAT JOHN KERRY
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacks
Hear Kerry admit he could not think
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 3
UNFIT #10: 9/10 mindset
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2
KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]
THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1
dox in sox on lummox in box on fox
THE REAL "REAL DEAL"
(what Kerry's commanders and crewmates REALLY think of him--with transcripts)
Did John Kerry pick a running mate or hire a lawyer when he selected John Edwards?
THE MAN FROM HOPE: been there, done that
"Hope is on the way!" (the scoop)
THE TERRORISTS' USEFUL IDIOTS
all the usual suspects
A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for the Terrorists
ELECTION BOTTOM LINE:
TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER or TERRORIST ANNIHILATOR
JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES: 8/10/04 UPDATE!
taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT SERIES:
taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
UNFIT #9-JOHN KERRY: DEADLY OPPORTUNIST
SELF-CONFESSED WAR CRIMlNAL MORPHS INTO SELF-PROMOTER WAR HERO
UNFIT #6: The Deadly Kerry-Hollywood Axis
HOW CAN YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES IN ITS HANDS?
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#2-understanding the job description
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#3-sang-froid and the "nuclear" button
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#4 - Kerry champions tolerance for terrorists
sanitizing evil
Kerry Cabal Censors Nick Berg Decapitation
"Loose Cannon" Kerry's AWOL/PURPLE-HEART FRAUD
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
USEFUL IDIOTS
MOORE IS LESS--THE MOVIE
The Cycle of Violence:
NOW WITH HYPERLINKED INSTRUCTION MANUAL
JOHN KERRY'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans
bill clinton, boy "genius," unwittingly bares all on BBC
deconstructing clinton "just because I could"
vetting missus clinton...
The Parallel Universe of Jamie Gorelick
nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)
Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content
"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
What are the Dems up to?
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EARS (The Perjurer Returns)
(Clinton: Claims I Turned Down Bin Laden are 'Bull')
The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance
What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?
giant sucking sound
KERRY MAKES DUKAKIS LOOK CONSERVATIVE, SMART + JUDICIOUS
- Q ERTY6 utter failureBUMP
- Lib Author Regrets Voting (TWICE!) for clinton
"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism
MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)
The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)
UDAY: "The end is near this time I think the Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."
subject: YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS: John Kerry John Kerry "The Bush Administration is so entralled by the idea of preemption and American military might. This is the consequence of the policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triump of arms." John Kerry John Kerry George Bush Dick Cheney John Kerry
OUR CHILDREN AND THE KERRY PERIL:
in Kerry's own words
THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS! (ABC report)
"We were not at war in the 1990s."
(missing the point entirely that the War on Terror began in earnest with the bombing of the WTC in 1993 and bin Laden's subsequent repeated (and unanswered) declarations and acts of war against America).
Democratic presidential debate, January 29, 2004, Greenville, S.C.
COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS , 3 December 2003
acceptance speech, July 29, 2004
State of the Union Address, The U.S. Capitol, January 28, 2003
"I listened to what Senator Kerry had to say in Boston [Kerry acceptance speech], and, with all due respect to the Senator, he views the world as if we had never been attacked on September 11th. The job of the Commander-in-Chief, as he sees it, is to use America's military strength to respond to attacks. But September 11th showed us, as surely as anything can, that we must act against gathering dangers - not wait for to be attacked. That awful day left some 3,000 of our fellow citizens dead, and everything we have learned since tells us the terrorists would do worse if they could, and that they will even use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons against us if they can. In the world we live in now, responding to attacks is not enough. We must do everything in our power to prevent attacks -- and that includes using military force."
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ONE:
LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war?
KERRY: The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control.... But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons....
LEHRER: Ninety seconds.
BUSH: Let me -- I'm not exactly sure what you mean, "passes the global test," you take preemptive action if you pass a global test.
My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.
Good Morning America
September 29, 2004
JOHN KERRY:
"We should not have gone to war, knowing the information we know today....
DIANE SAWYER:
"So, it was not worth it."
JOHN KERRY:
"You should not -- eh -- it depends on the outcome, ultimately, and that depends on the leadership. And we need better leadership to get the job done successfully. I would not have gone to war knowing there was no imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, there was no connection with al Qaeda and to Saddam Hussein. The president -- eh -- misled the American people. Plain and simple. Bottom line."
DIANE SAWYER:
"So, if it turns out okay, it was worth it? -- "
JOHN KERRY (interrupts) :
"No."
DIANE SAWYER:
"...but now it wasn -- ?"
JOHN KERRY (interrupts again) :
"It was a mistake to do what he did but we have to succeed now that we've done it.
Good Morning America
September 29, 2004
for discussion, goto:
Diane Sawyer Nails Kerry Peril (PREEMPTION + KERRY'S EX POST FACTO REASONING)
Larry King Live
July 8, 2004
"Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time."
Larry King Live, July 8, 2004
(NB: Radio City, July 8, 2004, Nantucket, July 17, 2004)
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Awesome job, my FRiend...MUD
thx. :)
If anyone has the quote, pls post it here. thx.
It is ironic that Bush courageously bet his entire presidency on aggressively fighting the War on Terror but is allowing Kerry and the Left to tease out the current battlefield from the larger war and frame the debate on Iraq.
I'm a newbe. Thanks for doing all this work. I'm gonna read it!
good morning
thanks for the ping
& bttt
I assure you, it's time well-spent...MUD
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
eave it to the French to make pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic all the rage. |
bookmarking for later read.
"Still a Righteous Nation!!"
(To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Just My Imagination")
Right looks fer a Leader...who knows Big Guv'ment ain't Right!!
I say to myself, "I like this Dubyuh guy..."
Ain't 'fraid to fight Evil...helps Right's dreams come true...
But as much as I like George Bush...(he) grows Guv'ment, too!!
An embarrassment to this Nation...Hanoi John!!
Running against Hill'ry!!
FReepers must retake this Nation...
Guv'ment's against the FRee!!
Fools support Kerry...they're scair't 'bout bein' FRee...
Braindead poltoons...I prefer my Liberty!!
Left tells you, "Success must be punished!!"...but that just ain't Right!!
More Power is what Left wants, Nation...let's FReep DemRATS we'll fight!!
I tell ya...
America's 'bout Liberation...once again!!
Fightin' to make folks FRee!!
Yes, we're still a Righteous Nation...
Fightin' 'gainst Tyranny!!
(Little guitar jammin' interlude)
So, come on, Right...let's hope and pray...
"Dear Lord, Save the FRee!!"
Won't ever let another take our sovereignty!!
Justice fer Chi-Com spies!!
Seek Justice...fer Willie!!
Limbaugh, he embolds me...
Right stands 'gainst Leftist Tyranny!!
It's our reality...Left doesn't understand...me.
Mudboy Slim
Seek Justice...fer Willie!!
FReegards...MUD
excellent! thx. :)
BTTT!!
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