CIA "WMD" Report strongly supports Bush -- The Liberal Spin is almost entirely unjustified!!

Central Intelligence Agency ^ | 9/30/04 | Charles Duelfer

[Jerry W. Howard]

URL Given is for the 19 page "Key Findings" of the Duelfer Report -- it is in .PDF format, so cannot excerpt. Almost every word strongly underpins EVEN IN HINDSIGHT the actions of President Bush. Entire report also at same CIA site, but this is the "synoposis" THE LIBS ARE SPINNING SOME OBSCURE POINT INTO A LIE THAT WMD WASN'T A REALISTIC REASON FOR WAR -- WE HAVE GOT TO GET THIS PAST THE MEDIA EDITORS' SPIKE!!!

[Jerry W. Howard]

THis is well worth looking up, the spin on this by the media is worse than anything Dan Rather ever even tried to pull... Don't take my word for that -- I don't even have a 1972 Selectric typewriter -- Read it! As a "pro-gun rights" guy, I thought the practice of reporting Supreme Court decisions as exactly the opposite of what they really are was bad...This one takes the cake. Bush had more justificaion than even HE says.

[Pete'sWife]

President Bush and his campaign staff will spend the next week or so bypassing the "filter."

In ten days, maybe even the "undecided" will have heard about this.

[Republican Wildcat]

Almost Entirely? Take that almost out.

Lying about matters of national security, as the liberals are doing in regard to this report and so many other things, and instead putting political advancement first, IS completely unjustified.

[SpinyNorman]

I wonder how this rate's on ABC's "distortion accountability" scale?

Does Halperin even notice the inherent spin in his, and the other MSM nework's "reporting?"

[EagleUSA]

What many do not appreciate, is HOW DESPERATE THE SOCIALIST/DEMS ARE TO REGAIN POWER. It is beyond belief what they are willing to compromise in this country JUST FOR THEIR OWN EMPOWERMENT. THEY ARE DRUNK ON IT.

To compromise national security with their treason and lies, is beyond comprehension. Yet they are so POWER-BLIND they do not even see the treason and damage they are doing.

As history records this, let it all show what can happen in a political party, when their ENTIRE PLATFORM IS BASED SOLEY ON THE AQUISTION OF POWER AND CONTROL without any regard for the country they would have you believe they have any care about.

[elbucko]

Bush had more justification than even HE says.

As far as I am concerned, Bush's justification are the Democrats themselves. Democrats will NEVER do what is necessary to protect this country. A "9/11", with nuclear overtones, was only a decade away with the Democrats and their fondness for appeasement and their ridiculous need for the world to "like" us.

[mtbopfuyn]

This is the right war, at the right time.

[Jonah Johansen]

Did anyone catch the comment made by Terry McAuliffe on TV when debating with a Republican Party official?
In response to a question about the WMD Dueffler Report
he said something like ..

" The Republicans need to admit they were lying so we can bring our troops home"

I was a bit stunned. It seems to me he was letting the cat out of the bag. I have suspected that this was Kerry’s plan all a long.
If anyone else heard this exchange or have an exact transcript of his words.
This combined with Thursdays "Lebanon" metaphor and his insulting of Alawi and our other allies helping us in Iraq proves to me that he will be withdrawing all our troops almost immediately after taking office. I would expect him to announce some kind of fact finding team right after inauguration and then a month or so later announce that they have determined the situation is hopeless or that the presence of our soldiers is the main impediment to stability in Iraq.

[Darksheare]

Ping

[Nathan Zachary]

• The introduction of the Oil-For-Food program (OFF) in late 1996 was a key turning point for the Regime. OFF rescued Baghdad’s economy from a terminal decline created by sanctions. The Regime quickly came to see that OFF could be corrupted to acquire foreign exchange both to further undermine sanctions and to provide the means to enhance dual-use infrastructure and potential WMD-related development.

They sure have spun this badly! kerry is a complete bold faced liar. I see Bremer has come forward and said kerry has completely misquoted his words as well, and that MSM is ignoring him trying to correct Kerry. Bremer says he completely supports Bush's decision to go to war.

[Pete'sWife]

Bremer needs to hold a news conference.

[Nathan Zachary]

He did, the report is at Newsmax. I never checked if it was posted here, I assumed it was because it was posted at newsmax yesterday.

[SheLion]

[Nathan Zachary]

From the report: • By 2000-2001, Saddam had managed to mitigate many of the effects of sanctions and undermine their international support. Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime, both in terms of oil exports and the trade embargo, by the end of 1999.

Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq’s WMD capability—which was essentially destroyed in 1991—after sanctions were removed and Iraq’s economy stabilized, but probably with a different mix of capabilities to that which previously existed. Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability—in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks—but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities.

Completely opposite to what MSM and Kerry is saying. I'll have it all recopied to word shorty.

[attiladhun2]

Kerry as much as admitted that was his "plan" yesterday. He said by Jan. the situation might be "another Lebanon". We now understand why France, Germany, and Russia were opposed to taking out Saddam, they were all on the take. Kofi Annan's son was administering the Oil for Food scam, which explain's the UN's oppostion to the invasion. So how does Kerry expect to build a coalition with those countries and that NGO when they profited by keeping this tyrant in power? If you read The Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis you'll understand that Saddam's infamous Unit 999 was probably involved in every major act of terrorism in this country since the first Gulf War, including 9/11. Remember the anthrax after 9/11? It was a type known to have been developed by Iraq. Remeber Flt 800? The reasons justifing taking Hussein out are legion. It is the right war at the right time, in spite of "Bandaid John's" protestations to the contrary.

[DAC22]

"Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq’s WMD capability—which was essentially destroyed in 1991—after sanctions were removed and Iraq’s economy stabilized, but probably with a different mix of capabilities to that which previously existed. Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability—in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks—but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities"

1. UN sanctions were in shambles
2. Terms of agreement from Gulf WarI were meaningless to Saddam
2. Our Planes were being fired upon daily
3. Oil for Food, need I say more
4. Terrorist free to come and go
5. Paying terrorist 25K to kill Jews, Israali's & Americans


If I were Karl Rove I'd turn this into a positive, in that it was inevitable we would have had to go in and take Saddam out based on what came out this week.

Question for John f'n Kerry: Would the war have been the right time, at the right place had we found stock piles of WMD?

Kerry would have to say yes.

Well then Mr Kerry the Defense Dept. estimates are that if Saddam had WMD and used chem / bio on our soldiers we would have lost 5,000 soldiers during the invasion(whatever the estimates were) Thank god he didn't have them and that we took him out before he did. Game, set, match

[FesterUSMC]

i downloaded the WHOLE REPORT ALL 195MB's of it! Bush was and is justified in his actions in Iraq, to say otherwise is totally ridiculous!

[Nathan Zachary]

I DL'ed the cia 19 page report. it's awsome! WTF was kerry saying that the CIA didn't support Bush?

At a minimum, Saddam wanted to divide the five permanent members and foment international public support of Iraq at the UN and throughout the world by a savvy public relations campaign and an extensive diplomatic effort. Another element of this strategy involved circumventing UN sanctions and the OFF program by means of “Protocols” or government-to-government economic trade agreements. Protocols allowed Saddam to generate a large amount of revenue outside the purview of the UN. The successful implementation of the Protocols, continued oil smuggling efforts, and the manipulation of UN OFF contracts emboldened Saddam to pursue his military reconstitution efforts starting in 1997 and peaking in 2001. These efforts covered conventional arms, dual-use goods acquisition, and some WMD-related programs.

MSM is totaly ignoring this stuff. This has GOT to get out there!

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[FesterUSMC]

The onset of the OFF program began what became a burgeoning source of real disposable income. The revenues Iraq garnered grew incredibly from an estimated $250 million in 1996 to $2.76 billion in 2001. The process of oil exports offered leverage in the international oil markets. The UN system for controlling Iraqi oil exports had the unintended consequence of allowing ample opportunities for corruption. Corruption of this process suited the objectives of Saddam of escaping the fetters of the sanctions controlled by the UN Security Council.

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