Posted on 04/18/2006 7:35:16 PM PDT by jveritas
If your brothers are like my Dem friends, they are probably in denial. My Dem friends simply swallow everything their lib masters tell them. During the Clinton admin, the Clintonistas told them that Hussein was as threat and had wmds. And my friends believed them. During the Bush admin the same people told my friends that Hussein was not a threat and had no wmds. And my friends believed them. I have remarked on the release of these documents and the damning truth revealed in them, and my Dem friends choose to deny their validity and stick their heads in the sand.
Hopefully your brothers will eventually realize that almost all lib commentators, gov and ex-gov sources and insiders are agenda-driven and/or outright liars. Someday I hope to convince my Dem friends and family members of that obvious fact.
If Gore were president, these damning revelations would be front page news on all the major lib rags and lead items on all the alphabet networks news hours. "GORE WAS RIGHT TO INVADE!!!" would scream the headlines and opening statements by the lib scribblers and newsreaders. But a Republican is president, and of course Big Media chooses to sit on the biggest news story since the invasion. They're probably hoping another Abu Ghraib pops up somewhere.
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I KNOW! It makes me so darned angry!
If you do a little googling with regard to Clinton and his bombing of Iraq, you will see a very supportive media, almost gushing over his determination and strength of character to take on Saddam--who was a threat to the U.S. Basically, "We don't like bombs, either, but Clinton is PROTECTING us from the Butcher of Baghdad, who is going to come after us soon!"
Did I mention today that I despise the media?
Why Peach, do you mean Operation Get The Truth Out?
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You've all done so well. Bump and thanks for getting the word out. I'll continue to nag :-)
There is also a long,not-that-great video on page 13 or 14,which MAY show a small group of the Al Kuds Martyrs Brigade undergoing military training in Iraq.
Continuing thanks bump. You put the presstitutes to shame...
Joseph you are da man!!!
In case this slipped under the radar... bump!!!
Agree 100%.
You, sir, are a translation stud! :-)
Am I missing this, or are these whole series of revelations reported nowhere else?
Thanks :)
From Captain's Quarters who posted the entire translation:
Nothing in this memo speaks to WMD, at least not explicitly, nor of any notable breach of the cease-fire agreements or UNSC resolutions. It does raise some questions. Why would the Iraqi military have spent so much time and effort in IED development in 2000? After all, the Americans had not attacked Iraq in force since 1991. Almost exactly one year prior to the memo from this senior chemist in the IIS, Bill Clinton had retaliated for the expulsion of the UN inspectors by firing a fusillade of missiles at Baghdad, but no hint of an invasion or even a sustained military effort had come from the US since the Gulf War.
IEDs have no military use; the shells used for their construction have much better effect if fired normally at an enemy. And yet, not only do we have Iraqi intelligence investigating these explosive devices, this memo even proposes "tournaments", presumably for competing designs. It also mentions "Arab fedayeens", a term that Americans might remember from the irregular Ba'athist forces called the Saddam Fedayeen which formed the core of the native insurgency as Baghdad fell. (They also preyed upon the regular Iraqi Army to prevent desertions and surrenders during the conflict.) In this context, "Arab fedayeen" obviously refers to non-native forces, and irregulars rather than soldiers from another allied country -- in other words, Arab terrorists.
Given all of this information, it seems clear that Iraq had planned to train and equip Arab terrorists on the manufacture and use of IEDs. They intended on doing research on making these terrorist weapons even deadlier and more effective, and they wanted it all done before the end of 2000. They may not have realized their own need for the technology in 1999, but they certainly considered the program so urgent at that time that they pushed to get it completed within a year.
It looks like those ties between Saddam and terrorism keep getting stronger every day.
Also from Powerline today:
A very interesting document. Note that the Iraqis were working on IEDs as early as 1999. Why, I wonder? The most striking thing, of course, is the reference to "Training of the Arab Fedayeens." "Arab Fedayeens" is, I believe, a common term for foreign terrorists. So this seems consistent with the recent revelation that Saddam's regime operated at least three terrorist training centers, attended by terrorists from numerous countries, right up until the eve of the war in 2003.
And note who wrote the memo: a "Senior Chemist." Which suggests that Iraq was sharing its knowledge of chemical weaponry with foreign terrorists as of 2000.
As always, we welcome comments on the translation, which can be accessed through the jveritas link above.
YOU ROCK!
Thank you for your significant contribution in bringing the truth out about Saddam's regime as well as exposing the media/left's agenda.
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