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Report: Saddam feared own army as US invaded
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| 3/12/06
Posted on 03/12/2006 8:09:38 AM PST by Valin
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:09:45 AM PST
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Valin
To: Valin
NYT and Reuters make for a suspect article. I would rather see the raw report first.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:13:35 AM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Dogs are your only friends.)
To: Thebaddog
Remember in dictatorships loyality to the leader is more important than competence.
BTW if you do run across it (the raw report) could you let me know? Thanks
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:18:08 AM PST
by
Valin
(Purple Fingers Rule!)
To: Valin
How does this skew with the thousands of hours of untranslated tapes that have been discovered? Does this refer to the fact that he shipped his WMD's out of Iraq? He had no WMD's because he had them removed. The MSM will go to the wall trying to ignore the elephant in the room and stick to the narrative "Iraq had NO WMD's, this war is illegitimate." Makes me sooooo angry!
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:19:14 AM PST
by
FreeLuna
To: Thebaddog
" the Times also said that top Iraqi commanders were shocked when Saddam told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction.."
"NYT and Reuters make for a suspect article. I would rather see the raw report first."
I am with you on that bit right there, too much has been released saying the opposite of that
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:21:17 AM PST
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: Valin
Posted yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594805/posts
Posted by demlosers On News/Activism 03/11/2006 10:10:33 PM CST · 21 replies · 839+ views
(Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's fear of internal rebellion led him......
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:22:33 AM PST
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: Valin
There is some truth here. Saddam knew that his commanders were getting phone calls at 0300 telling them that we knew where they were hiding themselves and that they better think really fast about what could happen to them. He also knew where the calls were coming from. Nuff said.
There is also a lot of Bravo Sierra in the article as well.
To: Valin
Two weeks into the war, Saddam and a small circle of aides remained convinced that the main threat came from within, leading him to deny a commander's request to blow up the Euphrates river bridge to slow the U.S. advance, the report saidDoesn't make sense. - With the American armies sweeping to Bagdad, slowed only by a sandstorm, how could he think that not impeding our advance would make him more secure?
Something doesn't add up.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:35:39 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Valin
Saddam's loyalty requirements were too draconian to earn real trust of his military.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:38:36 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)
To: Valin
Notice that RUETERS conveniently leaves out that the WMD have BEEN REMOVED from the country months prior to the US led invasion!!!!
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:38:47 AM PST
by
PISANO
(We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
To: PISANO
What I noticed is that much of this is from a classified report. Who leaked that report and is it supposed to still be classified? This looks like one more occasion when we need to really slam down on people working within our government and acting treasonously.
To: Condor51; All
Citing a classified U.S. military report The point I tried to make on the thread yesterday.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:49:16 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
To: Thebaddog; Peach
"...the Times also said that top Iraqi commanders were shocked when Saddam told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction. "Especially since we have Saddam on tapes saying he did have WMD and discussing how to hide them and/or get them out of Iraq.
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posted on
03/12/2006 9:22:04 AM PST
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: FreeLuna; Peach
Reuters and NYT are trying to pre-empt what's coming out about these tapes. They're getting their lies out there ahead of the truth, or trying to. We can't let them get away with this--time to start writing letters and making phone calls, folks.
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posted on
03/12/2006 9:24:24 AM PST
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: BelegStrongbow
More important, was it classified by the US, or was it created out of whole cloth ala CBS?
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posted on
03/12/2006 9:26:06 AM PST
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: Valin; FreeLuna
One thing that's very clear to me, is that if Saddam did not trust his own military commanders he would have could cause to mislead them about weapon stocks particularly WMDs.
To: MizSterious
Don't know and with that it looks like the leftist press might well have confected a way to say whatever they want, so long as the official sources remain silent on the matter.
Of course, the idea could also be to bait the officials to make a statement they would otherwise have kept entirely unknown, which to me is yet one more good reason to take these traitors out, line them up and deal with the worst ones summarily.
To: Valin
It said his military leaders were demoralized to learn there were no WMDs, as they were counting on stocks of poison gas or germ warfare for defense.
What the article should have said was that his military commanders were demoralized to learn that there were NO LONGER any WMD's in Iraq to defend Baghdad with.
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:08:17 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
To: MizSterious
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:52:28 AM PST
by
Peach
To: MizSterious
The lies by the left are just sickening. It's about time the administration and Republicans start fighting back.
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:53:08 AM PST
by
Peach
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