Posted on 02/20/2006 11:29:29 PM PST by Thunder90
A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them.
"The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org).
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What HASN'T happened to the WMD's?
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And .. it proves what Israeli intel satellite photos showed .. huge Russian trucks moving equipment and stockpiles into Syria just a few weeks before we began the thunder run into Baghdad!
This is a sad day for the dems .. they have invested their whole ideology upon "Bush lied - no WMD".
So .. Bush DIDN'T LIE! Bush and the rest of the intel community believed the WMD existed .. and it was only Israel who captured the pictures of the truth - Russia moving the WMD into Syria from Iraq. Amazing!
Now .. how foolish does the supposedly "Christian" minister look after his slap in the face to President Bush about "no WMD" ..??
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney was less reticent. He thought the reason was Iran. "With Iran moving faster than anyone thought in its nuclear programs," he told NewsMax, "the administration needed the Russians, the Chinese and the French, and was not interested in information that would make them look bad."
This story is still only appearing in Newsmax.
I heard something strange to that effect in the Saddam tapes, something about the French and Russians
Even if their were no WMD's Bush didnt lie.
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n.
1. A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
2. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.
For it to be lie you need to Prove that he knew beforehand that NO WMD's existed. Since everyone told him they had WMD's and even Clintons CIA director told him that it was a "slam dunk" im sure he believed that they had them.
Well .. I agree .. because he had to wilfully know they didn't exist .. and as you say .. he did believe they existed - and HE HAS BEEN PROVEN CORRECT.
Just because the WMD weren't in Iraq didn't mean they didn't exist somewhere.
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You had me worried there for a minute.
It's so funny how all the MSM has ever been interested in was Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Now when there might be a NEW angle on the story they never tire of, they are on week two of this nothing Dick Cheney story.
I don't recall this obsession with Hillary's behavior after Vince Foster died. I do recall a lot of stories about how hard it was on the Clintons losing their friend, though.
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There was a posting last week where three actual sites located in Syria where WMD's were stored were identified.
Russia has not been a friend to the United States since mid way through WWII when it was obvious that it was only time before Hitler's Germany would be defeated.
It's the Russians who supplied the Iraqi's with the nuclear equipment (destroyed by Israel 1982) and it is our friends the Russians who have the world currently on the brink by supplying the nuclear plant / equipment to Iran.
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