Posted on 01/25/2008 8:37:48 AM PST by icwhatudo
After stating in last nights republican debate that "Just because you didn’t find every Easter egg didn’t mean that it wasn’t planted”, Mike Huckabee went on to claim that Saddams WMD may have gone to Jordan.
This youtube video is of Huckabee on Chris Mathews sticking with the Jordan claim.
Really?
It’s a misplaced country name, or he’s a schmuck. I lean towards the later ;)
I had the hope he would correct himself in the later interview, that he meant there were some claims it may have gone to Syria- much in the same way the airforce went to Iran in the previous war. But Jordan???? sigh
Lets’ see...we have one frontrunner who thinks Putin is the head of Germany and one who can’t tell the difference between Syria and Jordan.
And we’re at war.
Although it might have been one of those "slips of the tongue" due to sleep deprivation, I'm frightened to think that he probably doesn't know the difference. I would have thought that he would have picked up some basic geography from all that Bible reading.
**shakes head**
I CANNOT believe people are taking this man seriously as a contender for leader of the free world. Jordan??? If this were a debate with Hillary, he’d have been laughed off the stage.
Gomer.
David Kay, the otherwise useless WMD analyst, said that “perhaps hundreds” of trucks crossed from Iraq into Syria in the days before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Kay, who inexplicably also said there were “no WMDs” also said that it was possible that those trucks contained WMDs being removed by Saddam Hussein.
Is that some southern colloquialism? I've never heard of people planting easter eggs.
Jordan???
Interrogator: Invasion Surprised Saddam
Jan. 24, 2008(CBS) Saddam Hussein initially didn’t think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.
Piro, in his first television interview, relays this and other revelations to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley this Sunday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Piro spent almost seven months debriefing Saddam in a plan based on winning his confidence by convincing him that Piro was an important envoy who answered to President Bush. This and being Saddam’s sole provider of items like writing materials and toiletries made the toppled Iraqi president open up to Piro, a Lebanese-American and one of the few FBI agents who spoke Arabic.
“He told me he initially miscalculated... President Bush’s intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998...a four-day aerial attack,” says Piro. “He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack.” “He didn’t believe the U.S. would invade?” asks Pelley, “No, not initially,” answers Piro.
Once the invasion was certain, says Piro, Saddam asked his generals if they could hold the invaders for two weeks. “And at that point, it would go into what he called the secret war,” Piro tells Pelley. But Piro isn’t convinced that the insurgency was Saddam’s plan. “Well, he would like to take credit for the insurgency,” says Piro.
Saddam still wouldn’t admit he had no weapons of mass destruction, even when it was obvious there would be military action against him because of the perception he did. Because, says Piro, “For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that [faking having the weapons] would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq,” he tells Pelley.
He also intended and had the wherewithal to restart the weapons program. “Saddam] still had the engineers. The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there,” says Piro. “He wanted to pursue all of WMD…to reconstitute his entire WMD program.” This included chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, Piro says.
Saddam bragged that he changed his routine and security to elude capture. “What he wanted to really illustrate is…how he was able to outsmart us,” says Piro. “He told me he changed…the way he traveled. He got rid of his normal vehicles. He got rid of the protective detail that he traveled with, really just to change his signature.”
It took nine months to finally capture Saddam, but U.S. calculations on where he might be early on turned out to be accurate. Saddam was at Dora Farms early in the war when the known presidential site was targeted with tons of bombs and many missiles. “He said it in a kind of a bragging fashion that he was there, but that we missed him. He wasn’t bothered by the fact that he was there,” Piro tells Pelley.
Syria Huckster, not Jordan. Thanks for pissing off an ally. Who is ignorant and arrogant? Not GW Huck, but yourself. Shut up already, you are making us look bad.
Exactly. For all of GWB’s shortcomings, at least he knows the difference between our allies and our enemies.
Come on, give the guy a break! He can’t be expected to know every country in the Middle East, even if they are our “allies.”
It is obvious he meant to say “Thailand.”
ping
I think it is his Southern vernacular coming through. I know many people who use the word 'planted' for 'place' or 'sit'. I have used it on occasion but not often. The word 'planted' as he used it sounds OK to me ... He's still an idiot though for not knowing the difference between Syria and Jordan.
And sticking with the Jordan thesis will just make it worse. Of course, the media might give him a pass, as they would dearly love him to get the nomination and be crushed by Hillary in the general election.
Huck secures the dunce hat to go with his 25% sales tax.
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