Posted on 01/29/2006 11:36:47 AM PST by Mia T
IRAQI GENERAL: SADDAM MOVED WMD TO SYRIA BEFORE INVASION (ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE, CINDY SHEEHAN) by Mia T, 01.29.06 CINDY SHEEHAN: ECHO OF THE LEFT the democrats are gonna get us killed (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) series5 by Mia T, 8.28.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
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A former senior military advisor to Saddam Hussein is warning that the chemical weapons used by top Al Qaida terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi in a foiled 2004 plot to attack Amman, Jordan were the same weapons Saddam Hussein transported to Syria before the U.S. invasion.
Gen. Georges Sada offered the stunning revelation Saturday while explaining why he didn't decide to go public about Saddam's hidden WMD stockpile until recently.
"As a general, you see, we should keep our secrets," Gen. Sada told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley. But when news broke of the foiled WMD attack on Amman, he changed his mind.
"I understood that the terrorists were going to make an explosion in Amman in Jordan . . . . and they were targeting the prime minister of Jordan, the intelligence [headquarters] of Jordan, and maybe the American embassy in Jordan - and they were going to use the same chemical weapons which we had in Iraq," he told WABC.
Last week, Gen. Sada generated headlines when he told the New York Sun that Saddam had shipped his biological and chemical weapons stockpiles to Syria in the weeks before the U.S. attacked in March 2003.
But until yesterday, the former top Iraqi official had said nothing about al Qaida gaining access to those same weapons.
"It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," said Jordan's King Abdullah at the time, in an interview about the Zarqawi plot with the San Francisco Chronicle.
Had it succeeded, the WMD strike would have been the most deadly terrorist attack in world history, with Jordanian officials estimating that Zarqawi's al Qaida team could have killed up to 20,000 people.
While King Abdullah said that trucks containing chemical weapons had come from Syria, he did not identify Iraq as the ultimate source of Zarqawi's WMDs.
Gen. Sada, however, said he had no doubt that Zarqawi intended to use the same chemical weapons Saddam had sent to Syria.
Telling Crowley that he was "shocked" when news of the Zarqawi plot broke, Saddam's former top advisor recalled thinking: "My God, I know many things. How can I keep them [secret any longer]."
Gen. Sada also detailed on Saturday the Iraqi dictator's plan to launch his own WMD attack during the first Gulf War, explaining, "He wanted to attack Israel with chemical weapons."
The top Iraqi military man recalled a meeting of senior defense ministers where Saddam ordered: "I want you to do two things that are very important - to attack Israel and to attack Saudi Arabia with chemical weapons."
Gen. Sada said the planned WMD strike was to be carried out by 98 aircraft, including Soviet-built Sukhoi 24s, MiGs and French-built Mirage jets.
"One wave would fly through Syria and the other wave through Jordan and then penetrate to Israel," he said.
Gen. Sada recalled that he was the only one to raise objections, warning Saddam that such an attack would surely provoke a nuclear response from Tel Aviv.
"I told all this directly [to Saddam] and everybody was listening. If a needle was dropped on the carpet you would hear it," he told Crowley.
After presenting a nearly two-hour-long argument against the WMD attack, Gen. Sada said Saddam was finally persuaded to pull the plug on the deadly operation.
Nice job once again, Mia T. I love your relentless pursuit of the real story.
Thank you, Mia T.
In one segment that I heard the "no spin" master himself dismissed the author (no mention of his rank) as some guy trying to sell a book. We need more evidence than that said Bill O'Reilly on his radio show last week. Oh well, at least he didn't say this was "swiftboating" Saddam.
thanx:)
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Mia you are magnificent
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My husband was also Chemical Corps, he says the same thing.
bookmarked ~ I know I'll want to refer to this one again!!
Syria has Saddams WMD. Iran has been visiting Syria a lot lately. Hmmmm
IMHO Syria is giving the WMD's to Iran for when we attack them.
Things are getting interesting.
what a surprise.........NOT! good article though mia!
We chem guys often had the chance to see things that were "not for media release." I can say with absolute confidence that the weapons were there...and, although I don't know this for sure, my educated guess is that they ended up in Syria.
Do you know about this video---the Hitlery video? the Peter Paul video?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8571783130742638160&q=peter+f.+paul
All of this, in the grand scheme of things will matter only after GWB is well retired.
What matters now, I believe, is focusing on keeping the White House free of insidious pests...whether they be liberal, Democrat, or even Republican.
This is why I advocate a positive approach to the nomination and election of our President on '08. And a "positive approach" is defined as propagating the benefits of a conservative agenda and one who will wholeheartedly and sincerely carry that agenda out to the best of his/her means.
important nexus....
No suprise to anyone but Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the disinformed Democrat rank and file.
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But the obsessively perfectionistic dodo wasn't able to fake even one wrong answer in the Letterman phony "pop quiz," a nostalgic electuary of "Twenty-One" fraud and (Groucho) Marxist left-wing crow. Instead, this documented incompetent with no apparent creative or analytic (not to mention thespian) skills gushed forth with a lame--"It's the bluebird--I know that" --globally exposing herself to be the corrupt clown that the sentient among us already know she is. It is no accident--and the Sheehy hagiography notwithstanding, it is certainly not because of any patriarchal society--that this reflexive kleptocrat never sought office. She never ran simply because she is a perfectionist and an incompetent who cannot tolerate personal (as opposed to bill-related) criticism, witness the prescreened, heavily controlled, sycophantic crowds, her pre-programmed, totally scripted appearances (or, alternatively, her totally mute "listening tour"), her unavailability to the press, indeed, her "bluebird." Thus, the question begging to be asked is this: Why would this compulsively perfectionistic grotesquerie allow herself to be unambiguously exposed as the utter incompetent and fraud and fool and horror that she is? And why would this self-proclaimed protector of "the children" prolong her own child's profound trauma by forcing her own bottom-heavy self, soiled in its own right, onto the political stage? The answer, I believe, resides more in liberty loss than in power gain. Simply put, she is not running for office; she is running from indictment. And I fear Starr successor, Robert Ray, is unable to catch her... On second thought, maybe the problem is that he does.... Ray's recent statement , " I have been charged with responsibly conducting the work of this office. Some of my responsibility is to ensure that there is no untoward effect on the political process," both confirms and encourages this latest round of clinton raping, pillaging, despoiling, destroying. Will this nightmare never end? J. Bradford DeLong Too many pundits, usually leftist and privileged, sneer at country music. To these critics, any music created by poor, Southern whites (at least those poor, Southern whites who didn't attend an Ivy League university) must be held in contempt, along with its correlatives: incest, racism and trailer parks. Hillary Clinton? Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man? Where would she be now if she as a child had to pick cotton from sun up to sun down? Tammy Wynette stands alone, a legend; and she will be admired wherever people appreciate the honesty of the human experience. Human beings are vulnerable. We all should be thankful to any artist courageous enough to bare her soul on the public stage so the rest of us who are listening and know whereof she speaks might benefit.
December 7, 1941+64 Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will? In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst? Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival. What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times. COMPLETE LETTER COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
"Bird of paradise" would have been a brilliant wrong answer for the New-York-state-bird question; in one fell swoop it would have flattered the necessary constituency, rendered hillary's cheating marginally believable and suggested a quick, secure, creative mind.
Or catch on.
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2000, 2005
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Clinton Administration Veteran:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."
My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran
Hillary Clinton?
Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man?
Thank you, Gavin McNett, for your tribute to the incomparable Tammy Wynette. (TAMMY WYNETTE, 1942-1998)
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AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRORE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
Dear Concerned Americans,
December 7, 1941+64
Mia T
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
Spot on Mia!
During the leadup to the Iraq liberation, while a couple hundred thousand young Americans sat in the desert, the corrupt Chiraq/Schroeder/Putin/Crietien/Total/Hans Blix/Colin Powell/Tony Blair-and one pedophile block ran obstruction for Saddan Hussayne.
Hussayne meanwhile, behind that so-corruptly, cynically and useful-idiotically provided cover - and while Mr Bush practiced much compassion and no detectable conservatism - used the Blair-Block provided, American-Soldier-Intensive, breathing, organizing, dispersing, disposing and terrorist-facilitating space to good advantage.
Just as I and countless others, with between us scores of years of boots-on-the-ground Arab/Moslem/Iraq experience, passionately protested on these boards at the time that he would!
Blessings - Brian
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