Posted on 03/14/2006 12:01:22 PM PST by RepublicNewbie
The New York Times reports that just prior to the United States lead invasion, Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein informed his top generals that he had destroyed his stockpiles of chemical weapons three months before their war plans meeting.
According to the Times report, the generals all believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and were counting on the WMD to repel the oncoming coalition invaders.
While reporting on this story, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said he is not surprised that the CIA and other nations believed Saddam had WMD since Hussein's own generals believed they had them. He said that this proves President Bush did not lie and that he believed what Saddam's own generals believed -- that Iraq possessed stockpiles of WMD.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
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but didn't Bush lie?
Does anyone know when the original story from the New York Times was published or can anyone provide a link to it? Thanks.
"...the United States lead invasion"
The what?!
bump. I'd like to see that also.
The French begged to have the attack delayed for 30 days and for some reason we agreed -- it was during that time frame that Saddam ditched the WMDs.
The Iraqi generals knew they had WMDs and were surprised to find out that Saddam had shipped them out of the country.
Within the last 48 hours and was based on a leaked CIA document. As always, the timing of the leak/article at the same time as Bush ordered release of ~48K boxes of captured Iraqi documents is curious.
The generals should have contacted Coretta Scott King. She knew they didn't have any!
Old news.
Well, if Saddam and/or his generals believed that there were WMDs, how is Bush supposed to have more accurate information than that?
This is new?
I thought this was reported in mid-2003...not that it got widespread distribution or that most people read it.
Dash to Baghdad Left Top U.S. Generals Divided
I think they have a PLAN!
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