Posted on 11/16/2006 4:45:33 PM PST by PajamaTruthMafia
That non-existent Saddam threat Few in the mainstream media have paid much attention to the recent New York Times story (see my previous post) which reported Iraqi documents showing that Saddam was actively developing a nuclear weapon. In the Jerusalem Post recently, Caroline Glick wrote this:
In response to the Times story an international security Web site run by Ray Robinson published a translation of a story that ran on the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassahs Web site on September 25. Citing European intelligence sources, the Al-Seyyassah report claims that in late 2004 Syria began developing a nuclear program near its border with Turkey. According to the report, Syrias program, which is being run by President Bashar Assads brother Maher and defended by a Revolutionary Guards brigade, has reached the stage of medium activity.
The Kuwaiti report maintains that the Syrian nuclear program relies on equipment and materials that the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader, Uday and Qusai. transfer[red] to Syria by using dozens of civilian trucks and trains, before and after the US-British invasion in March 2003. The report also asserts that the Syrian nuclear program is supported by the Iranians who are running the program, together with Iraqi nuclear scientists and Muslim nuclear specialists from Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. The program was originally built on the remains of the Iraqi program after it was wholly transferred to Syria.
This report echoes warnings expressed by then-prime minister Ariel Sharon in the months leading up to the US-led invasion of Iraq that suspicious convoys of trucks were traveling from Iraq to Syria. Sharons warnings were later supported by statements from former IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, who said last year that Iraq had moved its unconventional arsenals to Syria in the lead-up to the invasion. According to the US Senates Prewar Intelligence Review Phase II, which studied the prewar intelligence on Iraqs nuclear weapons program, in 2002, the US had learned from the Iraqi foreign minister that while Iraq had not yet acquired a nuclear arsenal, Iraq was aggressively and covertly developing nuclear weapons. The Senate report concluded that Saddam was told by his own weapons specialists that Iraq would achieve nuclear weapons capabilities within 18-24 months of acquiring fissile material.
In the weeks and months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, President George W. Bush repeatedly stated that Americas primary security challenge was to prevent the worlds most dangerous regimes from acquiring nonconventional, and particularly nuclear weapons. When Bushs statements are assessed against the backdrop of the apparently advanced Iraqi nuclear bomb designs that were placed on the Web in recent weeks, it becomes clear that the US-led invasion successfully prevented Saddam Hussein from acquiring nuclear weapons
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I knew he was a sympathizer, but I had no idea that Bill Maher was on the enemy's payroll!
And you know the chemical weapon attack that was foiled outside of Amman Jordan April 20, 2004? Those chemical weapons were naturally occurring and not from Iraq, so don't even start with that...
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Repeat after me: Bush lied, people died
Maybe the reason we don't hear the Bush Administration proclaiming the spread of Saddam's WMD programs to other nations is that the invasion of Iraq was meant to prevent such a spread.
Thank you! You're the only Freeper, other than me, that I've seen mention this foiled attack. That plot alone proves that Saddam 1) had a WMD program, and 2) was cooperating with terrorist organizations with international reach, including al Qaeda (since the Jordanian bombers were recruited and trained in Saddam's Iraq by al Zarqawi).
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Further confirmation that there were WMD in Iraq prior to our invasion.
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Former Chief Inspector David Kay has made many comments the media completely ignores........
Kay said there was "a constant stream of trucks, cars, rail traffic" moving
from Iraq to Syria. "We simply don't know what was moved," he said, adding,
"The Syrian government has shown absolutely no interest in helping us resolve this issue."
"I think it was reasonable to reach the conclusion that Iraq posed an imminent threat."
Kay: "I must say I actually think Iraq what we learned during the inspections made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially than in fact we thought it was even before the war."
Kay: "It was absolutely prudent to go to war. The system was
collapsing, Iraq was a country with desire to develop WMDs, and it was
attracting terrorists like flies to honey."
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