Posted on 07/03/2007 5:39:57 AM PDT by Quilla
1. WMD did indeed exist inside Iraq before the war.
2. The weapons inspectors were both fooled and bribed to ignore evidence.
3. Massive amounts of WMD were removed to known locations in Syria just prior to the war.
4. Massive numbers of Saddam's audio tapes and paper documents were collected and most remain unavailable and presumably un-translated.
5. U.S. officials refused to investigate a number of likely WMD sites.
6. The U.S. intelligence community, and other branches of this government, are stonewalling the issue.
"Now, it would be common to ask for the reason the Bush Administration has not revealed that WMDs are in Syria and/or Lebanon. According to Israeli intelligence sources, it is likely because exposure of that would lead to a domino effect where evidence would leak out that Iraq's programs had roles played by Egypt, Syria, Libya and Saudi Arabia. [plus the French, Germans and Russians] Such leaks will enflame the region and especially Iraq, and make things much harder, resulting in a more bloody and costly war and diminishing likelihood that other countries would send forces in.[71] Additionally, people would be skeptic, saying it was a lie so that the war-mongering neo-cons were trying to justify a new conquest. The other side would put enormous pressure to bring the war to Syria-a war we are not yet ready to fight."
Reviewer 1: In General Sada's unique position, he was able to observe some of the worst of Saddam's behavior and trickery and confirms in this book not only the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but also the extraordinary lengths that Saddam went to hide these weapons....
Reviewer 2: The author tells how Saddam managed to trick the world into believing he did not have weapons of mass destruction. He goes into detail how Saddam managed to hide all evidence of WMD's and how he managed to move all of them out of Iraq under the noses of the United Nations weapons inspectors. ....
Reviewer 3: Of particular note are tapes of more than 3,000 hours of Saddam Hussein meeting with his war cabinet and millions of pages of documents that contain vital information about Saddam's WMD program and plans for transporting the WMDs out of the country in order to dupe the weapons inspectors.... American and world citizens must demand that these tapes and documents be immediately released, translated, and analyzed in their entirety.
"On February 16, President George W. Bush assembled a small group of congressional Republicans for a briefing on Iraq." Representative Mike Pence said to President Bush, "There are 3,000 hours of Saddam tapes and millions of pages of other documents that we captured after the war. When will the American public get to see this information?"
"Bush replied that he wanted the documents released. He turned to [National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley and asked for an update. Hadley explained that John Negroponte, Bush's Director of National Intelligence, "owns the documents" and that DNI lawyers were deciding how they might be handled.
"Bush told Hadley to expedite the release of the Iraq documents. "This stuff ought to be out. Put this stuff out." The president would reiterate this point before the meeting adjourned. .....
"Negroponte never got the message. Or he is choosing to ignore it. He has done nothing to expedite the exploitation of the documents. And he continues to block the growing congressional effort, led by [Rep. Pete] Hoekstra, [the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee] to have the documents released.
"It's a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz. It's also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmers in Saddam's Iraq to justify the war ostensibly waged to protect the world from Saddam's use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons."
"Dave Gaubatz, however, says you could not be more wrong. Saddam's WMD did exist. He should know because he found the sites where he is certain they were stored. And the reason you don't know about this is that the American administration failed to act on his information, lost' his classified reports and is now doing everything it can to prevent disclosure of the terrible fact that, through its own incompetence, it allowed Saddam's WMD to end up in the hands of the very terrorist states against whom it is so controversially at war."
"After helping to lead the Soviet Union's germ-weapons program, Ken Alibek defected to the United States and began warning about the threat of a mass-casualty biological attack. Alibek also has sought to profit from the fear of such weapons of mass destruction, landing federal contracts or grants totaling about $28 million."
I bet it will be another 'insider' like Dave Gaubatz? If the government hadn't taken all his coloring books he would have the 'evidence' to show us? Or even better, you're the insider and you can't let us know until you 'break' the 'news' in the Weakly Standard. Seriously I'll be waiting on pins and needles for new data to just come streaming out.....well not really, sitting on pins and needles for the next 30 years would hurt....Seriously you WMD believers are as ardent as the UFO believers. Hmmmmm, three letters in each (WMD,UFO). Coincidence? I think not.....
Sorry no sale Mac. I heard that rude awakening line for almost two years after the incursion
And yet, have you set foot in Iraq yourself?
Trust one who has- YOU ARE WRONG.
thanks
I remember seeing it. I remember jumping up and down in my family room saying that we had better hurry in the invasion, stop procrastinating and start bombing those convoys. We never did. Funny, I haven't been able to find that footage anywhere since then.
At no point did I say they never had them, but as evidence has shown they apparently had them no more. The Kurds will killed in the 1980s. But Mac and his flying car that he got from the aliens are going to prove me wrong it seems. As I said, I'll be waiting for that breaking report from Crazy Joe and the 'fine' staff over at WND (hey look another one!! WND, UFO, WMD that's just too weird....)
And then of course I'll expect to see it on Fox in between the missing reports in Aruba...unless Fox is really against 'us' too then we'll never know. Man I never realized how much 'conservatives' love a conspiracy....
I’m one who knows the wmd’s are out there, but where, I don’t know? I’m awake, thank you, but I agree many a rude awakening is about to take place.
Lets be honest here-
You have never been to Iraq and you have no form of military security clearance, do you?
Answer me that question with anything but “no, I have never been” and I will know you are a liar.
LMAO... some??!!!
Half the Dhimmicrat party and all of the DBM have been saying this for years!
“But Mac and his flying car that he got from the aliens are going to prove me wrong it seems”
You, sir, are engaging in slander!
They will show up in a town near you.
of this I hope and pray doesn’t happen, but perhaps you will be the one who winds up being correct. We know the wmd’s are out there.
Excellent source; most informative. Thanks.
Saddam Hussein WAS a WMD.
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I’m still waiting for your answer- have you ever served in Iraq since the outbreak of the war?
My turn to wait on pins and needles.
How many documents have been released?
I even wrote to the History Channel but never received an answer. Is that where you saw it?
thank you, my apology to you... I was caught up in the moment....your sources are the most believable on the planet. Our drive-by media is nothing more than a joke. Thanks Again.
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