Posted on 02/15/2006 5:37:12 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
WASHINGTON - Among the treasure trove of information captured after Saddam Hussein's fall were tape recordings of the Iraqi leader discussing weapons of mass destruction with top aides.
Transcripts of Saddam's tapes reviewed by NBC News show him ruminating about future terror attacks in the United States using weapons of mass destruction.
"We shouldnt be surprised to see a car bomb with nuclear [material] explode [in] Washington, either germ or chemical," Saddam tells aides. "So this is coming, Saddam says on the tapes, but not from Iraq," he adds, seeming to indicate that Iraq would not be the source of any such attack.[snip]...
....[snip] Importantly, though, many U.S. intelligence experts say the 12 hours of tape does not solve the riddle of whether Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 U.S. invasion.....[snip}...
Other aides seem to discuss hiding weapons from U.N. inspectors. We have not told them the truth about the imported material, one says. He adds, Where was the nuclear material transported to? A number of them were transported out of Iraq. He also says: We will confess, but not to the biological program......"
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
"..It certainly shows that he was trying to deceive the U.N., but it doesn't show that he actually had weapons in his possession at the time of the invasion, says Bill Harlow, a former CIA spokesman and an NBC News.."
Harlow was a CIA spokesman who left when Tenet did. Novak wasn't impressed with his accuracy.
So even if there weren't any WMD, which seems more and more unlikely given this new evidence, it is now absolutely clear that he had every intention of getting them again in the near future.
Why the Left decided to politicize the lack of WMDs when they knew full well that it was still an open question is beyond me. They completely committed to the attack that said Bush lied about WMD despite not being sure of the facts. Many of these libs are lawyers and for lawyers it is common knowledge that you don't ask questions of witnesses that you don't already know the answer to. Just plain dumb.
I mean, of course I'm kidding, but if there were TAPE of Saddam saying this, they'd deny it! LOL! OK, just kidding!
Oh, wait a minute...
One thing that can be hoped for is that there will be enough pressure to release, "35,000 boxes of documents recovered in Iraq after the U.S. invasion."
Mega BUMP
BTTT
I wonder if Saddam knows the wherebouts of one of his LT. Colonels a man named Nuri Salif Muhamed, who was arrested by members of the Interior Miniistry of Serbia in the village of Resen, near Bosilegrad.July 18-19, 98
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