Posted on 10/08/2004 4:43:01 PM PDT by Mia T
Don't take the word of your lazy rolling-news update anchor or the AP rewrite guy on the Duelfer findings on Iraq. Instead, read the report for yourself. It is an amazing document. It renders John Kerry, on foreign policy and national security, either a complacent fool or an utter fraud. It's not about WMD, it's about the top-to-toe corruption of the entire international system by Saddam Hussein. The "global test" is a racket, and anybody who puts faith in it is jeopardizing America's national security. If the lazy US media won't pick up this story now, shame on them.
THE U.N. NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
As long as you've got a rich man on your arm, you don't need a big bag.
--Elizabeth Rickard
The $100 billion Iraqi Oil for Food program was by far the largest relief operation in the history of the United Nations. By extension, it's rapidly becoming the U.N.'s largest-ever scandal....
Those included rewarding friends and allies world-wide with oil allocations on very favorable terms, as well as extracting large kickbacks from oil traders and suppliers of humanitarian goods....
There can be little doubt that U.N. mismanagement contributed greatly to the negative perception of the anti-Saddam containment policy. There is also little doubt that the reward and kickback scheme--as well the possibility of exposure--was a factor as some countries weighed whether to back U.S.-led regime change in Iraq. There is even reason to suspect that some of the Saddam friends and allies who benefited may have been members of the U.N. Secretariat.
Oil for Scandal
eave it to the French to make pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic all the rage.
MarkSteynOnline | 10/7/04 | Mark Steyn
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
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johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page
Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:01 a.m.
They and their moneygrubbing, Oil-for-Food defrauding cohorts abroad, and their power-hungry would-be terrorist sympathizers here, are all sporting "THE LOOK."
(How many of those oh so trendy Kerry-clinton-Kennedy hate-America, blame-America-first sound bites will Al-Jazeera broadcast today?)
The trusty triad's half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies, confounded by fog of war, vagaries of peace and uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds, remind us that things are not always what they first seem. The UN Oil-for-Food scandal, for example, has shown us it was not "going to war with Iraq" that was "all about oil," but rather, "not going to war with Iraq." The Left, we now see, had that one, (as they have most things), exactly backward.
The dernier cri of seditious and corrupt Leftists everywhere, pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic renders the Left, irrespective of policy, no less dangerous to Western civilization than the terrorists they aid and abet.
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Issues & Insights
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 lethally 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 lethally 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 choosing to ignore.) 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 lethally dangerous man.
FROM NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 2ND, it is critical that George Bush and Dick Cheney frame the ENTIRE DEBATE ON THE WAR ON TERROR AND ON THE LETHAL DANGER THAT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF KERRY WOULD POSE FOR OUR COUNTRY, FOR OUR CHILDREN, FOR 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
WHICH DANGEROUS MAN?
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."
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Beautiful work!
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It's...
KILL'em over there...
or they...
KILL us over here.
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The details of the magnitude of the corruption in the U.N. -- France in particular, with three of its officials ON THE TAKE FROM SADDAM TO ENSURE A "NO" VOTE TO INVADE IRAQ ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL -- IS TOTALLY DISPICABLE. OUR MEN WERE DYING IN IRAQ, TO FREE IRAQ AND REMOVE SADDAM, WHILE THE FRENCH WERE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR TO STAY AWAY.
THE U.S. SHOULD BREAK DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH FRANCE UNTIL THE CHIRAC GOVERNMENT IS REPLACED. SECONDLY, THE U.N. SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHOUT ANY REMORSE OR REGRETS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WHY SHOULD ONE MORE U.S. TAXPAYER DOLLAR GO INTO SUPPORTING THE U.N. ???? I CAN NAME MANY REASONS IT SHOULD NOT, INCLUDING THE LIVES OF MANY GOOD AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
THROW THE CORRUPT, ANTI-AMERICAN BUMS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY!!
I've read the report (as well as the 9-11 Commission report) cover to cover, including footnotes, and the conclusion is inescapable that it "hammers" the president and his conduct. It is the "head-in-the-sand" posture that dominates here that is a strange and dangerous wishful thinking. Whistling passed the the graveyard may be a comfort, but the failure to recognize the hard truth is setting oneself up for a disappointment.
For ted kennedy, the UN has established the Drinking for Oil Program and the "leaving dead women in cars in a river and not reporting it until some time later" for food program
I vote for "utter fraud". Nobody is that stupid.
It is not the president's conduct that is at issue here, It is France's. And Russia's. And China's And Kofi Annan's. And...
The UN Oil-For-Food corruption renders minister without portfolio without premises, postures and policies, as well.
BTTT!!
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I am sure that you appreciate the fact that these two possibilities are not mutually exclusive. In fact, there is ample evidence that both are actually true.
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