In this case under discussion, I don't buy the comments about divulging secrets. The papers written in Arabic were released by the government a good while ago and now are being translated and analyzed by our good freeper, JVeritas. For crying out loud what's going on here and why?
To me, the Administration is secretive even when it doesn't have to be. Can't it ever play hardball, EVER? Can't it ever point out triumphantly to public records (such as the papers Veritas is working on) which, properly explained, can put it in a good light for a change?
It makes me sick that the White House has a consistent record of fading away and almost forcing conservative TV pundits, radio talk show hosts and private citizens like Veritas and freepers to do the heavy lifting in both offense and defense.
I don't get it at all.
(......actually, I DO get it, and I don't like the answer one bit).
Leni
To whom (what reporters) have you all written with pointers to where this information can be found?
No cajones?
The administration have decided not to open this subject again until “if” our troops physically find a large quantity of hidden WMD or “Precursors” for WMD.
The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) ended their mission very early and prematurely concluded that there was no WMD or program related to WMD in Iraq.
From the ISG report, they decided to search 20 of the most suspect ammunition depots where potential Chemical Weapons can be found, remind you that there are hundreds if not thousands of ammunition depots in Iraq. Now from those 20 ammunitions depots they only search 2 in details, just TWO!!!. Of course I do not even think that Saddam regime will put their WMD in ammunition depots because those are the most suspect sites and because it can be bombed but they have rather buried it in the Western Desert or somewhere else in Iraq. I do not think there was any attempt by ISG to look at potential burial sites. Moreover the total number of ammunition examined is less than 0.25% of Iraq ammunition that can carry WMD” ( i.e. 122 mm, 155 mm, etc… caliber shells).
I think the ISG have made a lot of conclusions from the Iraqis scientists they have interviewed and other officials who work for Iraq “Military Industrial Commission (MIC)” and Iraq Atomic Energy Commission. The ISG bought what these people told them that there were no WMD or program related to WMD. This is a big mistake on the part of the ISG. First these scientists and officials will not say that there were WMD or programs even if they know about it because they were afraid to be imprisoned by the US forces or even worse they were afraid to be killed by the Baathists even if Saddam is not anymore in power. The ISG and many American officials still do not understand how much fear and horror Saddam has installed in the Iraqi people that the vast majority of population are still afraid of the Baathists till now. Second I think that these scientists may have worked on portions of the WMD program without knowing what are the final results of their works, it is like a Manhattan style project (US first atomic bomb) where the vast majority of workers and scientists did not know what their individuals works were used for.
Very few people in Iraq knew about the WMD and WMD projects, Saddam is one of them. Most of Saddam cabinet did not know about it, including the vast majority of high detainees we have in custody. For political reason we cannot force Saddam or few other high level detainees to tell us anything significant about the WMD or its programs. Moreover there are two very important high level detainees that are still at large and they can very much know about the WMD. There are the Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) and the Director of the Special Security Organization (SSO). The SSO was in charge of handling, maintaining, and hiding all the WMD and delivering it to the troops in the battlefields. Qusay Saddam Hussein was the Chief of the SSO for a period of time but he was killed before we capture him and I was not sure that if had captured him we would have forced him to speak. Where on the other hand the Director of SSO and IIS can be forced to speak not necessarily us but by the current Iraqi government. Capturing these two guys is very important to know about the WMD.