Couldn't agree with you more SC.
I listened to nearly every interview Gen Sada(Sadaam's air foce gen.) did and he put his life and his family's life on the line to expose the fact that Sadaam flew out 62 flights of wmds on a gutted 727 and 747 into Syria.
In addition Sada documented ground shipments of WMD's into Syria that we have on satellite.
But once again SC let's don't let the facts get in the way of msm spin.
I don't know why the WH is not pushing the Saddam tapes out. It appears that the Prez wants to, but others have been dragging their feet (according to Hadley, there is some disagreement in the WH about releasing the tapes (see below). As I mentioned on a thread a few Sundays ago, the ABC Special Report on the same, omitted some very relevant data, so we can expect the MSM and Dims to do their usual spin job, once they are released. I heard Rep Hoesktra earlier this week and he's pushing for them all to be translated and released and, from the article below, it looks like Pence is, too, so maybe more will come out soon.
Bush wants to release the Saddam files but his intelligence chief stalls
THE WEEKLY STANDARD ^ | 03/20/2006 | Stephen F. Hayes
Posted on 03/11/2006 9:22:21 AM PST by kimosabe31
On February 16, President George W. Bush assembled a small group of congressional Republicans for a briefing on Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley were there, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad participated via teleconference from Baghdad. As the meeting was beginning, Mike Pence spoke up. The Indiana Republican, a leader of conservatives in the House, was seated next to Bush."Yesterday, Mr. President, the war had its best night on the network news since the war ended," Pence said."Is this the tapes thing?" Bush asked, referring to two ABC News reports that included excerpts of recordings Saddam Hussein made of meetings with his war cabinet in the years before the U.S. invasion. Bush had not seen the newscasts but had been briefed on them.
Pence framed his response as a question, quoting Abraham Lincoln: "One of your Republican predecessors said, 'Give the people the facts and the Republic will be saved.' There are 3,000 hours of Saddam tapes and millions of pages of other documents that we captured after the war. When will the American public get to see this information?
"Bush replied that he wanted the documents released. He turned to Hadley and asked for an update. Hadley explained that John Negroponte, Bush's Director of National Intelligence, "owns the documents" and that DNI lawyers were deciding how they might be handled.
Bush extended his arms in exasperation and worried aloud that people who see the documents in 10 years will wonder why they weren't released sooner. "If I knew then what I know now," Bush said in the voice of a war skeptic, "I would have been more supportive of the war.
"Bush told Hadley to expedite the release of the Iraq documents. "This stuff ought to be out. Put this stuff out."
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Selective coverage by biased media
Sun Sentinel ^ | March 10 2006 | James J. Pirretti
Posted on 03/11/2006 8:27:25 PM PST by demlosers
Where's the reporting on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program?
When President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, the gleeful liberal press reported daily on our lack of finding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
However, two former Iraqi military leaders and tapes of Saddam Hussein and his cronies have recently painted a different story. Alas, other than one TV station, I have found no coverage of either the tapes nor these commanders' accounts. Is this yet another example of liberal bias in the media?
In tapes going back to 1995 -- four years after some liberals claim Hussein gave up his WMD program -- Hussein and his son-in-law were heard to boast that they fooled the U.N. inspectors. In a tape recorded in 2000, Saddam Hussein is heard talking about Iraqi scientists' efforts to build a nuclear device.
Further, Georges Sada, the No. 2 general in the Iraqi Air Force under Saddam Hussein, recently published a book, Saddam's Secrets. Not surprisingly, the liberal media conveniently overlooked this book. In his book, Sada states that prior to our invasion, Saddam Hussein smuggled biological and chemical weapons into Syria, using civilian airliners. Sada's account is corroborated by Ali Ibrahim al-Tikrit, the former Southern Regional Commander under Saddam Hussein.
One would think that if Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident deserved more than one week of commentary in the media,
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Saddam Translator: ABC Re-interpreted Tapes
Posted by areafiftyone
On News/Activism 02/17/2006 10:45:00 AM PST · 123 replies · 3,782+ views
NewsMax ^ | 2/17/06
The FBI translator who supplied the 12-hours of Saddam Hussein audiotapes excerpted by ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night now says the network discarded his translations and went with a less threatening version of the Iraqi dictator's comments. "What you heard on ABC News was their translation," former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Thursday. "They came up with something different on a key element regarding terrorism in the United States," Tierney insisted.