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Bush Was Right About Iraq. (Putin Warned Him Before 9/11)
email ^ | 5/10/06 | Gary Bauer

Posted on 05/10/2006 5:51:24 PM PDT by epow

From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Campaign for Working Families

Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Bush Was Right

Yesterday brought another round of bad polling news for President Bush. A Gallup/USA Today poll pegged the president's approval rating at a dismal 31%, with 65% disapproving of his job performance. CNN pollsters delved into the latter figure to try and find out exactly what issues were driving the president's numbers down. The top issue cited by those who disapproved was the war in Iraq at 56%, with 58% saying they disapproved of the decision to go war, and 53% saying the decision to invade Iraq has made the U.S. less safe from terrorism.

At the same time, there is new information coming out about exactly what prompted U.S. action against Saddam Hussein. Columnist Joel Mowbray has devoted significant time and energy to reviewing post-war intelligence information coming out of Iraq, and his findings are shocking. Even more so, however, has been the Big Media blackout of this information that goes a long way toward vindicating the president.

According to Mowbray, the Pentagon commissioned an "after-action analysis report" on Iraq. The 230-page "book-length report analyzed thousands of Iraqi documents and interviews with over 100 officials of Saddam's regime." The report details Saddam's active role in terrorism dating back to 1994 with the establishment of Al Qaeda-like terrorist training camps run by the Fedayeen, which "trained some 7,200 Iraqis in the art of terrorism in the first year alone." By 1998, these camps were training jihadists from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, and other Gulf states.

Then there is this statement from a summary of the Pentagon report in Foreign Affairs magazine:

"In a document dated May 1999, Saddam's older son, Uday, ordered preparations for 'special operations, assassinations, and bombings, for the centers and traitor symbols in London, Iran and the self-ruled areas [Kurdistan].' Preparations for 'Blessed July,' a regime-directed wave of 'martyrdom' operations against targets in the West, were well under way at the time of the coalition invasion."

I want to draw your attention to that last line. In June of 2004, one year after the invasion of Iraq, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a stunning announcement that got virtually no coverage here in the United States. Here is an excerpt from an Associated Press report out of Kazakstan on June 19, 2004, about Putin's statement:

"Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday his government warned Washington that Saddam Hussein's regime was preparing attacks in the United States and its interests abroad -- an assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that Iraq was a threat. ...'After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services . . . received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests,' Putin said."

Now, put yourself in President Bush's position. Three thousand Americans have recently been murdered in downtown Manhattan by jihadists, and the president of Russia tells you that Saddam is "preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests." We now know -- from captured Iraqi documents -- that Putin was telling the truth.

Yesterday I met with a retired Israeli general, a man who has been on the frontlines of the war against terrorism for many, many years. Toward the end of the conversation, I asked him why the United States has not been hit again since September 11th. He said it could be strategy, but there is evidence that the Islamists were shocked by President Bush's strong reaction. They didn't believe we had the will to fight back. After all, the U.S. response to a string of terrorist attacks, beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center towers, was to treat each incident as an unrelated criminal offense, rather than coordinated acts of war committed by a common enemy. That mentality changed after September 11th.

The Israeli general I spoke with said Bush is absolutely right - that by taking the war to Islamofascists, we are preventing them from bringing the war to us. He said that was the lesson Israel has learned. Against this enemy, so totally consumed with hatred and so determined to kill, the best defense is a good offense.

My friends, as frustrating as the headlines out of Iraq may be, the alternative to a "good offense" is to invite more atrocities like September 11th. As we now know, that is clearly what Saddam Hussein intended. I don't know about you, but I believe President Bush made the right call by invading Iraq and removing that threat against America.


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Putin warned Bush about Saddam and Uday preparing for a terror campaign in the west before 9/11? That's news to me. Why has the MSM covered it up? Do I have to ask?
1 posted on 05/10/2006 5:51:28 PM PDT by epow
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To: epow
with 58% saying they disapproved of the decision to go war

And yet he was reelected after making that decision...

2 posted on 05/10/2006 5:54:46 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: epow
You will not see this in the MSM. Guaranteed.
3 posted on 05/10/2006 5:55:12 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: epow
Ok now that Putin says it was right to defend ourselves, the war was justified?

Palease!!!

History will be kind to Bush mark my words

4 posted on 05/10/2006 5:56:00 PM PDT by bubman
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To: epow

"Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday his government warned Washington that Saddam Hussein's regime was preparing attacks in the United States and its interests abroad -- an assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that Iraq was a threat. ...'After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services . . . received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests,' Putin said."

Nuff Said


5 posted on 05/10/2006 5:57:53 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK ("Please run your Biochip across the scanner " Warning ! Warning ! Happiness detected Detain at Once)
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To: epow

I think you read it wrong. It says that in June 2004 Putin warned the President that after 911 and up until the Iraq war, Iraq was planning terrorist attacks against US interests.


6 posted on 05/10/2006 5:59:05 PM PDT by faq
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To: jveritas; eyespysomething; iraqikurd

~Ping~


7 posted on 05/10/2006 5:59:21 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! I *LOVE* my attitude problem. Beware the Enemedia!)
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Putin warned Bush about Saddam and Uday preparing for a terror campaign in the west before 9/11? That's news to me. Why has the MSM covered it up? Do I have to ask?

The secret Saddam documents say the same thing... You know the translated documents that the media will not talk about.

8 posted on 05/10/2006 5:59:25 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: epow

we went through the same disinformation during the Viet Nam war with Cronkite et al claiming that we were losing the war when in fact we NEVER lost a major battle during the entire Viet Nam war including TET!
And the same propaganda is going on today.

We have liberated FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE in less than three years with less than two thousand KIA's.

And even though it has been documented that there were WMD's found in Iraq; as far as I am concerned, the day we captured Saddam Hussein was the day we found the WMD.

The Lefties' poster boys FDR & LBJ would have given their LEFT arm to have successes like we've had in Iraq & Afghanistan!


9 posted on 05/10/2006 6:00:40 PM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots. Semper Fi)
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To: epow

I noted this same thing in my column on the documents a few weeks ago.

It really does bolster Putin's claim.


10 posted on 05/10/2006 6:02:47 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: epow
You may want to read your own thread:

'After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services . . . received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests,' Putin said."

11 posted on 05/10/2006 6:08:21 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (Justice and "The Law" are not always the same thing.)
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Ok now that Putin says it was right to defend ourselves, the war was justified?

Palease!!!

Palease yourself.

Bush's case for invading Iraq doesn't depend on anything Putin told him. The article simply says that Bush knew what Saddam and his boys were up to, therefore he made the right decision.

I'm quite sure he had enough warning from other sources to take out Saddam without ever hearing it from the Russky. But the point of the article is that it would help his case before the American people if they had known what he knew before he ordered the invasion.

If the leftist MSM had revealed the Putin warning Bush might not be quite so low in public opinion polls. Do you have to wonder why they didn't and still won't?

12 posted on 05/10/2006 6:13:38 PM PDT by epow ("The only thing man has learned from history is that man doesn't learn from history," G. W. Hegel.)
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To: faq

I read it right, I just told it wrong. My mistake. I don't post articles very often, so I guess need to polish up my composition skills a bit before I try it again.


13 posted on 05/10/2006 6:16:25 PM PDT by epow ("The only thing man has learned from history is that man doesn't learn from history," G. W. Hegel.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

See # 13. Read it right, wrote it wrong. Sorry.


14 posted on 05/10/2006 6:18:17 PM PDT by epow ("The only thing man has learned from history is that man doesn't learn from history," G. W. Hegel.)
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To: Echo Talon

58% of people outside on the street in Times square is an accurate, scientific poll.


15 posted on 05/10/2006 6:25:44 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (( Multi-culturism has to go for a dirt nap.))
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To: Uncle Hal
Socialists, such as the MSM and the 'Rats, know that the Big Lie works. Bush's approval ratings prove it, which is why they worship Hitler and his propaganda methods.

During WWII, the OSS reported that Hitler was a master of propaganda, and that his primary rules were:

(1) Never allow the public to cool off. The socialists have been hounding Bush almost daily ever since he won office in November 2000.

(2) Never admit a fault or wrong. Notice how conveniently the socialists project this by accusing Bush of never admitting a fault or wrong.

(3) Never concede that there may be some good in your enemy. Notice how sHrillary damn near choked when asked to say something nice about him yesterday?

(4) Never leave room for alternatives. It's always the 'Rats' way or the highway, regardless of how many times a 'Rat flip flops on an issue.

(5) Never accept blame. How can they? It's always Bush's fault.

(6) Concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong. It's Bush's fault!

(7) People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. Let's see, some of the whoppers that have found credibility amongst the brain dead include "Bush lied," "Bush said there was an imminent threat" (when he actually said just the opposite), and "Saddam had nothing to do with al Qaeda or terrorism."

16 posted on 05/10/2006 6:28:21 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Enhance Capitol security: Censure Cynthia!)
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To: epow

bttt


17 posted on 05/10/2006 6:38:35 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (FreeRepublic and Rush Limbaugh: kevlar protection from the Drive-By Media.)
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To: epow
This report is certainly impressive, coming from Gary Bauer who has in the past been pretty vocal with his criticism of President Bush. Maybe there will be a resurgence of patriots in this country who will put aside their personal disagreements with this President and/or this administration and work to keep the war away from our shores.
18 posted on 05/10/2006 6:38:53 PM PDT by mountainfolk (God bless President George Bush)
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To: Justanobody; jveritas; Chena; Valin; M. Thatcher; DocRock; Calpernia; Madame Dufarge; Txsleuth; ...
Thanks for the ping justanobody.

Of course Russia knew what Iraq was doing and planning. Heck, they were selling and instructing them in areas. Oh, and giving him our war plans.

(I've slightly modified the title, as it was a mistake)

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19 posted on 05/10/2006 6:56:54 PM PDT by eyespysomething
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To: epow

I had heard that a long time ago....which is just one of tthe reasons that I have been so confused about the reaction to a lot of Americans about this war...

I heard John Gibson on his radio show last night, and he said at this time of the Vietnam War, we had lost 28,000 troops but Americans were STILL backing that war, and now, with 2800 many more than 50% have said the war was wrong...and to bring the troops home...

WHY?


20 posted on 05/10/2006 7:07:50 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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