"We will send you a sternly-worded letter....!"
Posted on 02/27/2006 11:43:21 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Now that Leno and Letterman have had their way with Vice President Cheney's hunting accident and the port controversy, maybe we can get back to something really important — like Saddam's WMD program.
Yes, the linchpin of opposition to the Iraq War — never really strong to begin with — has taken some real hits in recent weeks. And "Bush lied" — the anti-war mantra about the president, Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction — looks the most battered.
Inconveniently for critics of the war, Saddam made tapes in his version of the Oval Office. These tapes landed in the hands of American intelligence and were recently aired publicly.
The first 12 hours of the tapes — there are hundreds more waiting to be translated — are damning, to say the least. They show conclusively that Bush didn't lie when he cited Saddam's WMD plans as one of the big reasons for taking the dictator out.
Nobody disputes the tapes' authenticity. On them, Saddam talks openly of programs involving biological, chemical and, yes, nuclear weapons.
War foes have long asserted that Saddam halted his WMD programs in the wake of his defeat in the first Gulf War in 1991. Saddam's abandonment of WMD programs was confirmed by subsequent U.N. inspections.
Again, not true. In a tape dating to April 1995, Saddam and several aides discuss the fact that U.N. inspectors found traces of Iraq's biological weapons program. On the tape, Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law, is heard gloating about fooling the inspectors.
"We did not reveal all that we have," he says. "Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct."
There's more.
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And is in not intresting how the Democrat Senate Election Comittee timed their Port Hysteria PR blitz to shove the Saddam tapes off the headlines?
I'm sure this required great deception skills, like playing "peek-a-boo" with a 3 month old.....
They don't mean a damn thing. I recall listening to slick willy tell a group of people that he turned down an offer from the Sudan for Osama. Yet, the 9/11 Commission never mentioned it in their report because they didn't have ANY evidence that he actually tuned the offer down.
Not even his OWN VOICE was good enough.
(Well, technically it can be, but you get the idea...)
I am getting the NYT stragtegy rady.
All of Saddam's Generals and scientists just told him what he wanted to hear, that they had WMDs.
Actually, they realized the folly of messing with the Clinton Administration and especially with Hillary because they knew that she would be President in 08'. So, Bush did lie because there never were really WMDs.
Ready Set Go.....What is the over/under before the NYT or DU starts saying this?
I like the fact that the truth of the WMD's is slowly creeping into the sunlight-- but ultimately I don't give a rat's ass if we find them or not-- or even if they existed at all.
Taking out Iraq was the right thing to do by any standard.
Totally agree and BTTT.
KERRY CHIMP McHITLER LIED!!!! omg wtf bbq.
Perhaps most chillingly, the tapes record Iraq Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz talking about how easy it would be to set off a WMD in Washington. The comments come shortly after Saddam muses about using "proxies" in a terror attack.
Can't wait to see this reported on CBSABCNBCCNN news tonight!
Ping.
Hope you aren't holding your breath!
The UN Inspectors had the mentality of 3-year olds???
ping
"We will send you a sternly-worded letter....!"
That's the sad truth about libs. They'd rather believe we killed a bunch of innocent people for no good reason than to believe that we did the right thing. It's really sick when you think about it.
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