Posted on 04/19/2007 3:13:26 AM PDT by aculeus
Thanks for posting this. Bookmarking for later. :)
When you gonna see Syrians attack American soldiers of the IDF with WMD’s, this story will come back.
I like that theory.
After the fall of the Soviet Union the country was financially broke including all the Warsaw States.
The Russian military sold military hardware to make ends meet to anyone who wanted it. What was sold in the blackmarket and to the Russian Mafia?
John Deutch, CIA Director
1996 Congressional Hearing
“Moreover, the Russian military, struggling to cope with numerous problems, is not likely to regain its former strength. All Russian services are experiencing cutbacks in manpower, training, resources, and readiness, and they are uncertain about their future organization and missions. Overall manpower has declined to well under its authorized 1.7 million and current military production is a fraction of what it was under Soviet power. Much needed reforms languish. The morale of Russian soldiers and junior officers is bad and getting worse.
We cannot forget, however, that Russia still possesses a formidable nuclear arsenal. Moscow maintains high levels of readiness throughout its strategic forces, and it continues modernization programs, including a follow on missile for the SS-25 ICBM. Political instability, weak civilian control over the military, economic deterioration, corruption, and a general pervasiveness of crime, raise concerns about the control, security, and accountability of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal.”
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1996_hr/index.html
” met someone who appears frequently as a security expert on a major cable news channel.”
Who ? Miniter ?
Given the title I knew the url wasn’t going to have letters like: nytimes, msnbc, newsweek, ap, washpost, usatoday, cbs, nbc, abc, pbs, npr, or latimes in it
it will have “limbaugh” url soon.
No, it was not Miniter, or any name you’d probably recognize. I do not know this person’s rank in the military, but I don’t think it was that high up, and that’s part of the reason I am skeptical of his stories. I really don’t want to give many more details here, but I will via Freepmail with people who have the experience in the field to really know something about the subject first hand. I was introduced to this person via a business referral that should have nothing to do with current politics, and I do not wish to bad mouth anyone while benefiting from their assistance.
This may explain why Weldon was completely (and wrongfully) discredited and "politically assassinated".
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If true, it is also entirely possible that the intelligence was acted upon as well and simply remains totally top secret.
It is all conjecture.
But I know one thing for sure...
We will hear about things that are going on today only many decades from now when they can be declassified, and we will probably be stunned at the actions this nation has taken against the evil ones and how sucessful they were.
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I smell BS as well.
There are an awful lot of ‘05, ‘06 and ‘07 new members on this thread. I smell a disinformation effort.
Had me interested until the part about Sadaam having the last laugh and giving the weapons to Iran. Really hard to believe. Really.
“Bush lied” bump
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