Posted on 04/10/2006 4:34:50 PM PDT by Laverne
In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie. After the Kuwait war in 1991, when Rolf Ekeus arrived in Baghdad to begin the inspection and disarmament work of UNSCOM, he was greeted by Zahawie, who told him in a bitter manner that "now that you have come to take away our assets," the two men could no longer be friends. (They had known each other in earlier incarnations at the United Nations in New York.)
At a later 1995 U.N. special session on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Zahawie was the Iraqi delegate and spoke heatedly about the urgent need to counterbalance Israel's nuclear capacity. At the time, most democratic countries did not have full diplomatic relations with Saddam's regime, and there were few fully accredited Iraqi ambassadors overseas, Iraq's interests often being represented by the genocidal Islamist government of Sudan (incidentally, yet another example of collusion between "secular" Baathists and the fundamentalists who were sheltering Osama Bin Laden).
There was one exception—an Iraqi "window" into the world of open diplomacy—namely the mutual recognition between the Baathist regime and the Vatican. To this very important and sensitive post in Rome, Zahawie was appointed in 1997, holding the job of Saddam's ambassador to the Holy See until 2000.
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Thanks Laverne.
BTTT
And whose company was in Niger to broker the deal?
And who was there, both times, on an all expenses paid, no strings attached, spy mission for the CIA?
And who carried the 'fake' documents to Washington for cover?
Joe Wilson!!!
You might be interested in this
As hard as it is to believe, if you get your news from ABC or CNN, the fact that Iraq went shopping for uranium in Niger has never been in doubt. It was always public knowledge, never any question about it.
Why even Bush bothered to credit British Intelligence for what was publicly known is beyond me. Wilson and the press and the CIA went out in public and denied the undeniable, and did it with a straight face, and dared anyone to notice that they were lying; when a lie is that bold and that broad, is it still a lie? There must be some better word for it, when whole masses of people choose to repeat as truth what they all know is not, and then proceed to browbeat and intimidate anyone who fails to pretend to believe it.
But, no, words fail me. "Liar" will have to do.
And yesterday and tonight good ole Joe Wilson has been all over the airwaves blurting out his "story", to the welcome members of the dnc (oope, I mean media). Truth will out, it always does, and soon enough the word Liar will be afixed to Joe Wilson, as it always should have been (yes, I'm the eternal optimist).
And what does Fitzy say about this? Ooops....I forgot, Fitzy isn't investigating the lies of WIlson, now is he. I wonder if Hitchens will be on MSNBC tonight, isn't he usually on with Chrissy? I saw that Olberman as the "esteemed" Joe Wilson on tonight, do you think this might come up? HA!
"Media that wanted to belive" or media that was in collusion with. Recall, that Wilson didn't raise this story in the public eye (via the NYTimes) until AFTER he was on Kerry's Presidential team.
Wilson and Plame should be under investigation, not Scooter Libby.
"I saw that Olberman as the "esteemed" Joe Wilson on tonight"
Your one and only chance to see two dicks with no man present.
Perhaps they are. The Fitzy investigation is the up-front, in public investigation, the other one is behind the scenes? All I know the more we know, the more we realize that Fitzy is a political hack who isn't interested in truth -- he is just on a witch hunt, out to undermine the President. Did he get a copy of the Rocky memo too?
HA! (BUt I won't be watching anyway; Olberman is someone I just cannot stomach; well, Keith, CHrissy, Russert, Mitchell.....pretty much MSNBC in general)!
bump
Ravingnutter -- you'll want to read this.
Thanks for posting the thread, Laverne.
Thanks for posting this. The info isn't new, but every effort has been made to bring about the current misunderstanding of facts, and not nearly enough effort to correct the misunderstanding. I hope this helps turn the tide in that regard.
I hope so too LucyJo; it sickens me beyond words how the old media puts WIlson up on a pedestal and trashes the President all the time. It is so clear that old media and the DNC/Kerry/Wilson are colluding to undermine the WOT and President Bush. Their actions are the Rockerfeller memo in motion; I sure do hope that becomes more clear in the not to distant future. I hope Fitzy gets his hat handed to him. He should be investigating Wilson not Libby.
Ditto that!!! I've thought so many times what the Dems and "old media" would do if they had the real evidence of wrongdoing on President Bush that existed against the Clintons. It sickens me too, what they've been able to do using lies.
I told someone this weekend that the beginning of so much of the tumult that now exists about Iraq, etc., can be traced to the time, after 9/11, when Dems and their friends in the "old media" - first tentatively, and then increasingly more boldly unto the the current fever pitch - began to try to destroy the unity of purpose to defeat our enemies that existed back then. I think there is much more unity in fly-over country than "the polling data" suggests even now. The real harm they do is by encouraging our enemies (foreign and domestic).
You've got to be absolutely kidding me.
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