Bush Admin. releases 48K boxes of Saddam Documents (FOX NEWS ALERT!)

Fox News ^ | 03/13/2006

[tsmith130]

Just heard of Fox News Alert...no other details.

[My2Cents]

Isn't that the truth.

[bnelson44]

If he said that, O'Reilly's right

[pookie18]

I thought I also heard Brit say something about release of the audio tapes too. Did you/anyone hear that as well or is it just my wishful thinking?

[freema]

sharing the joy ping

[freema]

Timing is everything ; )

[Carry_Okie]

Are these ALL of the boxes or are they the "carefully vetted boxes" full of the minutes from stimulating discussions on how to get Uday's Iraqi soccer team winning again?

[Ben Hecks]

Ping!

[freema]

Also somewhat told Feingold and the Dems where to file their little censure paper.

[processing please hold]

Thanks, Dog.

Among the items Hoekstra wants released quickly are 68 Iraqi documents that his office requested last fall and recently obtained. Hoekstra says there is "no silver bullet, no smoking gun" in those documents, but that their contents are nonetheless very interesting.

"Saddam Hussein and his henchmen systematically destroyed much of the good stuff," says Hoekstra. "We want to see what he missed." Indeed, in one memo found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), the director of Iraqi Intelligence commands recipients to burn their offices. Paul Bremer, in his book My Year in Iraq, describes reading a similar memo. He writes: "Operatives were to engage in sabotage and looting."

Is it just me, or did he just contradict himself on the 'smoking gun'? He said they didn't find one, but in his next, saddam destroyed them.

[Liberator]

I'm surprised he's releasing them so soon.

I thought he'd wait util the year 2525.

[Liberator]

"Part of the PR campaign?"

Don't you mean "3-Ring Circus"?

[the anti-liberal]

So the focus on Iran and the willful ignoring of Syria is the result of strategic necessity? Sounds plausible, very.

[Txsleuth]

bttt

[Dog]

The smoking gun if there is one will be one in the digital area(computer hard drives). They might not have had time to dump it.

[the anti-liberal]

"It is the release of captured digital media, more than paper documents, that will likely provide the most comprehensive view on what was going on in Iraq; the state of any WMD programs as well as the true nature of what was on the mind of Saddam's trusted class," says Tanji."

I'll be looking forward to this.

Thanks.

[MizSterious]

"If it helps the administration it will be either buried, ignored or the MSM spin machine will go into full distortion mode."

This is where Freeper activism comes in. FR was highly instrumental in exposing Dan Rather's little fraud, and FR has been helpful in getting news reported that the MSM didn't want to report.

So, do we let them frame this any way they want, or do we get to work?

[Liberator]

"President Bush ordered Negroponte to release them and he'd been resisting."

Nope.

I'd assume the President is calling in his version of an AC-130 Gunship to help quell the latest political distractions.

[Dog]

Yep....Saddam ordered them to destroy all written records...but they may have left the computers.

[processing please hold]

Ok, thanks. I wonder who the lucky guy or gal is who will have the pleasure of searching the hard drives?

They might not have had time to dump it.

I hope you're right. Sometimes it's the smallest things that can throw a monkey wrench into an otherwise perfect scheme. If only one computer wasn't erased.......

[MOgirl]

Hello,

We are fine, in the end, we didn't even get any rain. Mr. MOgirl was a trooper and stayed up until the wee hours, just in case, as I could not keep my eyes open. Take Care!

Glad to be here, MOgirl