Posted on 03/12/2006 2:41:39 PM PST by FairOpinion
There have been just too many recent reports, impossible to brush off, that they were transferred to Syria shortly before the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
The place to start is the 2 million documents captured by U.S. forces in Iraq along with more than 2,500 hours of audiotapes of Saddam Hussein’s meetings with underlings.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has introduced a bill to release the material and may hold hearings this spring. Hoekstra says he has an open mind. His staff tried to check claims by former Iraqi Air Force Gen. Georges Sada that chemical or biological weapons were flown to Syria in 56 flights, but was unable to confirm it.
The general in charge of Pentagon spy satellites has admitted observing large truck convoys from Iraq to Syria before the war began.
The CIA’s clandestine war against the White House means the agency cannot be trusted for an honest account of what’s in this material. Hoekstra’s committee, and Congress, should make sure that an independent body with no ax to grind checks the documents and releases every last one that can be made public safely, except perhaps for the mess-kit repair orders and laundry invoices, no matter who might be embarrassed or how long it takes.
Washington isn’t Baghdad. Saddam’s secrets need not be protected, especially not at the expense of this administration’s credibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
'bout damn time, too.
Boston Herald is a conservative newspaper.
The CIA has them buried deep and Saddam's lunch menu is classified Top Secret. If the CIA were ever ordered by the courts to turn over the documents and tapes for independent review, they'd probably be lost in an "accidental" warehouse fire.
They definitely don't want to know what they contain. They most likely would give details of WMD that Iraq had. We already know that there are many entrenched liberal demorats in the CIA and Pentagon. It's no wonder this info is not being processed.
"Boston Herald is a conservative newspaper. "
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Thanks. I guess the Boston Globe is the liberal rag. But at least the Boston Herald still exists.
In LA there was a conservative paper some years ago, the LA Herald Examiner or something like that, liberals deliberately put it out of business, by calling some loan, or something like that, real mob tactics. Now all we have is the socialist LA Times.
The administration has so badly bungled the war and the WMD matter that their credibility cannot be recovered. Tragically, the President has let himself be "mouse-trapped" over WMD. Those who pay attention to news know there were weapons, and that they were moved before the invasion. Why and where are they now remains TBD.
The President cannot possibly come to the surface now and tell the truth about the WMD that he said do not exist.
Bush wants to release the Saddam files but his intelligence chief stalls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594534/posts
Man (liberal MSM) will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he (liberal MSM) will pick himself (itself) up and continue on.
"Man (liberal MSM) will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he (liberal MSM) will pick himself (itself) up and continue on."
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In this case they deliberately avoid the truth, because that would mean they would have to admit that President Bush was right all along.
Another good article from Investors Business Daily:
Saddam And WMD: Russia's Role
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=2&issue=20060306
Origins Of War: The feeding frenzy over the Katrina tapes stands in stark contrast to the obsessive disinterest of Democrats and the media in the Saddam tapes that show that Iraq had WMD and that Bush didn't lie.
The 12 hours of Saddam tapes made public confirm, in the words of Saddam Hussein himself and his top aides, that Iraq had WMD, was working on WMD and was conspiring to deceive U.N. inspectors about their existence and to hide and disperse them. But Bush critics seemingly are not as interested as they are in videotapes that might indict the president on Katrina.
If the WMD existed, what happened to them? Where did they go? As we have noted, just before Operation Iraqi Freedom both Israeli intelligence and U.S. satellite surveillance detected large amounts of military material moving from Iraq to Syria.
Bungled? Seems to be going just fine.
The WMD matter has been handled masterfully. Just wait and see.
I cannot get rid of the feeling that John Negraponte, and the State Dept he came from, and the CIA are working against President Bush. But why?
The adminstration did NOT "bungle the war".
Their mistake was underestimating the domestic enemy within.
Even I don't buy that!
The bungling has been political back here among the disloyal un_Americans. He has bared his throat to them politically by not speaking eloquently on important matters. This has left his supporters dangling in the winds of Washington.
"I cannot get rid of the feeling that John Negraponte, and the State Dept he came from, and the CIA are working against President Bush. But why?"
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My guess is that there are at least a couple of reasons:
1. It would show up their incompetence.
2. It would show that they did things for political reasons -- everything from deliberate leaks, to not passing on real info about the proven existence of the WMD, covering up for the UN and who knows what else.
Feel free to recommend a tin foil hat, but they are must be trying to cover up something, because as the article says, there is nothing to protect regarding Saddam, as the article points out: "Saddam’s secrets need not be protected, especially not at the expense of this administration’s credibility."
There is always the chance these are being held back to embarrass the Democrats should they win the house and open impeachment hearings.
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