Posted on 03/21/2006 1:02:14 PM PST by libertarianPA
Sounds like people who think they are being "bugged"
All Saddam had to do was to cooperate with the weapons inspectors, which was a prerequisite for our ceasing hostilities in the FIRST Gulf War. He didn't, and he got what he was promised.
If today's media were around during WWII, you'd be speaking German or you'd be a lamp shade or a bar of soap. < /Savage insight>
How long will it be before Saddam is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Sounds like people who think they are being "bugged"
They used to joke that Nixon on the WH transcripts while they were planning nefarious deeds -- "we could coverup X", once in a while one of them would inject "but that would BE WRONG"! Don't Saddam and co. deserve the same ridicule? The world is upside down.
"The factories will remain in our brains," one unidentified participant told Saddam at a meeting, apparently in the early 1990s.
I find this quote interesting. I just finished the book by General Georges Sada. One of the things he wrote in his book was that Saddam ordered the scientists who worked on WMDs to memorize all the work that was on paper, then burn the blueprints.
Or perhaps the locations would remain in their brains...
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"
"Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."
--60 Minutes (5/12/96)
Here you go, the same story.
I just read this story, that you sent me to...but I find the WRITER of the story, had an underlying premise that I don't think has been established yet..
The whole article was based on the FACT? that there were no WMDs...and hadn't been for years..
I don't believe that...am I wrong about the writer's premise?
No, you're right. They will do anything, say anything, to deny Iraq had WMD anytime after 2001.
Whew...thanks. Sometimes I wonder if I have missed some big story about the "proof" of no WMDS...
I even watched Duelfer in Senate hearings...and the press and Dem Senators seemed to hear differently than me...although Duelfer was sort of like David Kay...
TOO quick to write off the chance that a man that would bury jet planes, would NOT find some way to hide WMDs.
Because once they admit, even once, that there were "special equitpment"/chemical and biological weapons that were smuggled across the Syrian border by Russian spec ops, then the whole Left Wing's offensive against the Administration crumbles.
Possibly. Since we also have eyewitness accounts detailing how Saddam killed people who said things in meetings that he did not like, everyone in the room definitely took their cue from him. Heck the first thing the Baa-th party in Iraq did when they came to power was kill their political opposition.
This is my take on these transcripts, If early on in a meeting Saddam said there were no WMD, thats what everyone in the room said. Note in the above transcript I posted, they did not even want to talk about possessing WMD until Saddam had mentioned it. I did find an early audio transcript were they had basically agreed to never openly discuss WMD's. They were also worried about their nearby neighbors the Israeli's, who are legendary in their spying capabilities.
Slightly different title, which is why I didn't find it in the search--but at least that clears up the mystery. Thanks.
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