Besides the salient fact that our media ignored this story for almost ten days, the key items about this attempt were that the perps were tied with AQ, had had talks with former Iraqi personnel who were now operating out of Syria, and were using chemical/bio weps which Syria had not previously been known/thought to have stockpiled.
As this WSJ: Al Qaeda's Poison Gas article shows, our leftists, media, Colmes-skullheads of the world will only admit to WMD the moment they either (A) find a Dr. Strangelove-ianesque stockpile of ICBM's next to one of Saddam's palaces, thousands and thousands of missiles that are parked in the desert and are visible for as far as the eye can see, all with that little moon and star thing from islamic flags on their warhead cones... or (B) see a WMD used against the US.
These people are sick, they are the traitors within, and I sincerely hope they don't stop spewing their filth!!! Every common-sense American needs to be continually reminded that these vermin cannot be trusted with the security of our Nation.
All I'm saying is that this guy should be checked out much more throurougly than Hamza was and I'd be skeptical before I oredered any further military action based on info from former members of Saddam's regime.
And if we did let all this WMD get out than the Iraq war was a failure in an important respect. We have an air force, we had control of Iraqi airspace. What are we doing letting 50 747s make their way to Damascus. Did Iraq even have that many planes. They had virtually no air force and whatever they did have was Russian so I highly doubt this guy is on the up and up. Saddam didn't have 50 Boeings. If he had said 50 Ilyushins or 50 Antonovs than maybe I'd believe him. Where were the boys in blue while all these flights of WMD were taking palce? Twiddling their thumbs? This would have been a turkey shhot and it would have been easy to force them to land or take them out.
What good was takng out Saddam and putting up a democracy if he just gave all his WMDs to Hezbollah, AQ, Syria, Iran or whatver other Jihadist killers may have gotten their hands on it in the past 3 yrs?
This guy could check out, but 1 interview on Hannity and Colmes does not an unimpeachable source make.
The media is too busy talking about the NSA non-scandal and the Alito hearings. Their priorities are seriously warped since we hear nothing about the instances you cited or the current situations in Iran and the middle east. The media is not reporting the dangerous situations that could lead to world war.
Iran's crazy president met with Syria's leaders; Iran probably already has the bomb; Hamas is closely linked to Iran and Syria and is now possibly the ruling party of Palestine; Russia and China will very possibly side with Iran in this situation; Pakistan and India are two nuclear powers and nobody really know what they are going to do in this situation; we are fighting two wars in emerging democracies in that region. And the media is concerned because our government is spying on people they should be spying on. The media a-holes need to do their jobs and to get of Bush's back about crap that isn't important.