Posted on 03/12/2006 10:29:27 PM PST by smoothsailing
Tapes reveal WMD plans by Saddam
By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published March 13, 2006
Audiotapes of Saddam Hussein and his aides underscore the Bush administration's argument that Baghdad was determined to rebuild its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction once the international community had tired of inspections and left the Iraqi dictator alone.
In addition to the captured tapes, U.S. officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi documents that tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-1990s.
The documents also speak of burying prohibited missiles, according to a government official familiar with the declassification process.
But it is not clear whether Baghdad did what the documents indicate, said the U.S. official, who asked not to be named.
"The factories are present," an Iraqi aide tells Saddam on one of the tapes, made by the dictator in the mid-1990s while U.N. weapons inspectors were searching for Baghdad's remaining stocks of weapons of mass destruction.
"The factories remain, in the mind they remain. Our spirit is with us, based solely on the time period," the aide says, according to the documents. "And [inspectors] take note of the time period, they can't account for our will."
The quote is from roughly 12 hours of taped conversations that unexpectedly landed in the lap of Bill Tierney, a former Army warrant officer and Arabic speaker who was translating for the FBI tapes unearthed in Iraq after the invasion.
Mr. Tierney made a copy, which he provided to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee in turn gave a copy to intelligence analysts who authenticated the voice as that of Saddam.
Mr. Tierney said that the quote from the Saddam aide, and scores of others, show Saddam was rebuilding his once-ample weapons stocks.
"The tapes show...
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Oh, how sweet it would be for the President to hold a news conference and read translated Iraqi documents about the attempts to get uranium.
Sould we email this to Rusty Feingold???
Maybe other FReepers can get this to Rush:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1511842/posts
Thanks guys.
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Well, whattaya know...Joe Wilson was lying all along, as are most RATS.
Saddam Had WMD ( What the Damning Tapes tell us )Posted on 02/27/2006 11:43:21 AM PST by SirLinksalot
LIVE THREAD: CSPAN 2 - The Saddam Tapes and WMD translations NOW (12:20pm PST)Posted on 02/21/2006 12:23:22 PM PST by cgk
December 16, 1998
CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors."
The RATS will try and convince you that Clinton's bombings wiped out Soddom's WMDs, but that is a LIE!!
BTW...I forwarded this to Rush.
Drudge isn't even talking about this yet (but I sent him the link). And the only direct WMD quote from the tape talks about how the factories could be rebuilt, or at least that's what it seems to say. This still seems like an almost-story that's not quite ready for release.
Intelligence Summit to Air 'Saddam's WMD Tapes'
Posted on 02/15/2006 9:55:42 AM PST by Jeremiah2911
Copies of Saddam tapes available
Posted on 02/18/2006 11:46:39 AM PST by Alex Marko
IntelligentSummit.org
Thank you! I hope El Rushbo brings it up every day on his show, to the point that I refer to as the "gag-factor"! . This is the only way the Lib Moonbats will be exposed as to what they are: HYPOCRITES.
If Rush initiates this on his show, Hannity is sure to follow.
What????!!!! I thought it was an egregious lie when W included those 16 words about Saddam seeking uranium from Africa. You mean Joe Wilson was wrong????
I know it's been around that long. It's just frustrating to hear about how the tapes and documents are being translated and we will hear some fascinating results soon. And that's all we ever hear - predictions of interesting statements that will supposedly vindicate the WMD statements. I want to see that smoking gun.
Why do we only have 12 hours of tape after 3 years?
No one from the White House will ever mention this.
Anybody that doesn't beleive that Saddam could not hide cannisters of VX nerve gas and anthrax under the sand in Iraq, a country the size of California is a fool. If they don't beleive it, it's because they don't want to beleive it. These lefty types hate their own president more than they hate Saddam Hussein. To them Bush is the enemy, not Saddam, Osama Bib Laden, or Al Queda. The want to see Bush fail. They don't care that if Bush fails then America fails. The left is this country is just as much the enemy as the Islamofascists that want to kill us (lefties included).
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
The moonbats won't be convinced no matter how much evidence is presented. These are the same morons who argued in the 60's that we should ride out a Soviet nuclear attack because it would be immoral to fight back. Carter is a high-profile example.
Bombs with a "D" on them are good bombs. Bombs with an "R" on them are bad bombs.
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