Posted on 04/25/2006 12:56:52 PM PDT by jveritas
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In a report which might alternately be termed stunning or terrifying, United Nations weapons inspectors confirmed last week not merely that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that he smuggled them out of his country, before, during and after the war.
THE LEGACY OF JAY ROCKEFELLER
Jay Rockefeller (Socialist, Democrat from West Virginia, also home to the Klansman Byrd) TOLD SYRIA AND JORDAN AND SAUDI ARABIA that Iraq was going to be invaded!
Here is the transcript:
WALLACE: ...in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let's watch:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?
ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
Now, the intelligence that they had and the intelligence that we had were probably different. We didn't get the presidential daily briefs. We got only a finished product, a finished product, a consensual view of the intelligence community, which does not allow for agencies like in the case of the aluminum tubes, the Department of Energy said these aren't thick enough to handle nuclear power.
They left that out and went ahead with, "They have aluminum tubes and they're going to develop nuclear power."
WALLACE: Senator, you're quite right. You didn't get the presidential daily brief or the senior executive intelligence brief. You got the national intelligence estimate.
But the Silberman commission, a presidential commission that looked into this, did get copies of those briefs, and they say that they were, if anything, even more alarmist, even less nuanced, than the intelligence you saw...
14 posted on 11/18/2005 5:28:03 PM EST by Recovering_Democrat -- bttt
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Long range missiles....those were forbidden to Saddam after 1991 were they not?
Thanks for the continuing efforts, j.
I have no idea my fellow freeper. May be they know much more than what these documents are revealing and they just do not want to talk about it.
Do you mean this thread is not listed anywhere on FR?
"The Chief of the Iraqi intelligence service Rafa Daham El-Tikriti met with the PUK leader Celal Talabani."
Where is old Rafa now?
When I load this page it shows the topic box as empty. Would think that this qualifies as news or activism or something.
Thanks, I just noticed the same. I just sent the Admin moderator a message asking why did this happen, I will wait for their answer.
unknown: war on terror
Do you remember what topics/sidebars you originally posted to? There's no record of a removal, but sometimes things happen.
My guess is they were hoping you would be among the handful of surrogates. If it's up to jveritas to translate the documents, it's up to us to get the word out.
You're the man! Thanks for the translations, but isn't anybody in Washington looking at this too?
CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
"My guess is they were hoping you would be among the handful of surrogates."
It's a nice thought, but I'm just sitting here in my pajamas. Ah, hold on...
Related question ....see post #71..
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