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Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel
SF Gate ^ | 02/09/07 | Robert Burns

Posted on 02/09/2007 6:19:47 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

A "very damning" report by the Defense Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. He said the Pentagon's work, "which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; congress; democrats; iraq; liberalbias; moonbatchronicle; pentagon; sfcomical; skewedsfbs; wot
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To: dfwgator
"Irrelevant. Saddam violated the 1991 Cease Fire agreement, and we knew he was trying to obtain WMDs. That is the bottom line, he didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. This is "The War on Terror", not the "War on Al-Qaeda."


Finally....someone who has pointed out exactly what I emphasize in every discussion in which I am involved. Saddam violated the agreement that brought the Gulf War to a HALT.......not an end. He violated that agreement and therefore the war was rekindled based on Saddam's actions, intelligence (everyone chooses to forget Powell's satellite photos of the truck convoy hauling mysterious material out of Iraq when deployment was soon to become reality) and the intelligence that was obtained from intell agencies around the globe.

Whenever anyone mentions the "War in Iraq" I immediately correct them by stating, "Do you mean the War against terrorism currently focused in Iraq"?

As far as WMD's are concerned, just once, I would like to see our "objective media" ask General Pace how many military personnel currently and since the initial deployment of personnel to Iraq have been given the specific assignment of searching for and uncovering WMD's ! I would suspect that since our military is involved in fighting against a ruthless,often unidentifiable enemy, that no military personnel have been deployed exclusively to search for WMD's which I believe did and still exist in Iraq.

As you recall, it was the result of a thorough search, intell, or good luck that Iraqi military planes were found buried in the desert and the expansive/hi-tech control center was found under one of Saddam's palaces.

Finally, there are thousands of boxes of documents yet to be reviewed that may contain information about WMD's.

The point is, and you made it very well, "This is 'The War on Terror', not the 'War on Al-Quaeda". Good post.


EODGUY
41 posted on 02/09/2007 7:15:53 AM PST by EODGUY (If feel so comfortable knowing we have an honest, ethical, majority party in both houses. /gasp/)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I do not recall a big linkage being made between Saddam and Al Qaeda...some of a link, but not a major one. Is my recollection faulty?

Some vague links, but nothing really hard. I never considered that a reason for going to war.

42 posted on 02/09/2007 7:16:16 AM PST by Paradox (Secular Conservative, thank God!)
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To: Howlin
It would be best if someone archived that. I am sure her thighness will remove it once it becomes a political necessity.
43 posted on 02/09/2007 7:16:27 AM PST by dmartin (Who Dares Wins)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If I remember correctly, the press lauded the Pentagon for indicating Saddam did not want to surrender power to the religious Fiefdom Al Aqaeda was attempting to garner.

Now it seems to me the left is using the media to try and maneuver itself out of a fight over in Iraq. Apparently, and this is my observation. Our heroes on the left, who are SO endeared to looking out for our interests are interested in having a fight here.

Maybe the left will decide to open their arms and embrace a weapon vice embracing themselves before a crowd or a mirror let alone a camera.

SS


44 posted on 02/09/2007 7:19:19 AM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: SoFloFreeper

45 posted on 02/09/2007 7:24:50 AM PST by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: DrewsDad

Very powerful argument you made with your liberal friends.


46 posted on 02/09/2007 7:32:46 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: EODGUY

Regarding WMD:

Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."

In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.

"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.

Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.

In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.

"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.

In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

"I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said.

You haven't heard much about these reports, because they contradict the meme that Saddam either had no WMD, or destroyed it well before the Iraq war began.

The captured files of the Iraqi intelligence service, still mostly untranslated, could shed light on what did happen to Saddam's WMD.


47 posted on 02/09/2007 7:33:15 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.

-- 1998 US Grand Jury indictment of Usama bin Laden

48 posted on 02/09/2007 7:34:01 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard ("and alllll the children are insane")
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To: All

49 posted on 02/09/2007 7:36:31 AM PST by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The DOD Inspector Generals Office is not a democratic left wing group.

All of you who want to attack this article need to wake up !


50 posted on 02/09/2007 7:40:09 AM PST by LM_Guy
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To: LM_Guy

The article is not quoting the report. The article is quoting Sen Levin. Can we read the report?


51 posted on 02/09/2007 7:43:26 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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To: Peach; All
Agree 100%. Saddam was not a secularist and he had very strong relation to terrorism:

Saddam Regime Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600579/posts

2003 Document: Hundreds of Palestinian Terrorists to Join Saddam And Fight US Troops http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726660/posts

Iraqi Documents Contradict Senate Report that Saddam Regime was “Intensely Secular” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705635/posts

March 2001 Document: Saddam Regime Recruits Suicide Terrorists to Hit US Interests http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610012/posts

2003 Document: Saddam Ordered To Treat The Arab Feedayeen Terrorists The Same As Iraqi Soldiers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618519/posts

Document: Iraqi Intelligence To Train Arab Feedayeen Terrorists In the Year 2000 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617431/posts

Document: Saddam Regime Training and Using Foreign Arab Terrorists As Suicide Bombers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600367/posts

Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597459/posts

March 2002 Document: Saddam Ordered 25,000 Dollars for Each Suicide Terrorist Against Israel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602317/posts

2003 Document: Iraqi Intelligence Asks Hamas To Conduct Terrorist Attacks Against The US. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607915/posts

Saddam “Personal Memoirs” talk about his work to “Islamize” the Baath Party . http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762631/posts

52 posted on 02/09/2007 7:44:22 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: LM_Guy

Clinton's Justice department in 1998 (indictment reference in post #48) was really just a neocon front group. That's the ticket.


53 posted on 02/09/2007 7:48:02 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard ("and alllll the children are insane")
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To: jveritas

Excellent work, jveritas. The one that really stood out that I hadn't seen before was Saddam's Memoirs and his desire to Islamize the Batth party.

If Saddam was so secular, why did he write the Koran in his own blood?

We're being ruined by the MSM. By this time, I'd have thought they wouldn't lie so often because of bloggers and fact checkers and the internet. Sadly, I was wrong.


54 posted on 02/09/2007 7:48:51 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
Thank you very much Peach. Yes the Saddam Memoirs about his work to "Islamize the Baath Party" was done recently and written about by a reporter from Al Arabiya TV, I made the translation. He forced the founder of the Baath party who was an Arab Christian to convert to Islam.
55 posted on 02/09/2007 7:51:29 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas

Oh my goodness. Your work is deeply appreciated, jveritas and thank you for posting that information on this thread.

I've just written a note to add some of your links to my list of links about the decades-old relationship between Saddam and AQ.


56 posted on 02/09/2007 7:54:16 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Peach

You are welcome :)


57 posted on 02/09/2007 7:55:57 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: SoFloFreeper

[. . .Two people familiar with the findings discussed the main points and some details Thursday on condition they not be identified.]

Two people who work for that bloated hack Levin.


58 posted on 02/09/2007 7:56:16 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: All

How do you like your Dem overlords now?


59 posted on 02/09/2007 7:56:46 AM PST by aculeus
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To: SoFloFreeper
It's amazing what difference a headline can make:

Pentagon: Pre-War Intelligence Was Legit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781742/posts

60 posted on 02/09/2007 7:57:07 AM PST by faq
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