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Will Saddam’s WMDs Fall into the Hands of Al Qaeda?
Front Page Magazine ^ | 12-9-2012 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/09/2012 6:05:39 PM PST by smoothsailing

December 9, 2012

Will Saddam’s WMDs Fall into the Hands of Al Qaeda?

by Daniel Greenfield

Probably one of the most despicable lies perpetrated by the Democratic Party was the claim that Saddam Hussein had no WMDs. It was a lie of political convenience by a party whose top politicians had asserted the exact opposite until it became more convenient for them to jump on a new bandwagon.

After all that there would be a certain historical irony if Saddam’s WMDs were indeed finally found, but by Islamist terrorists into whose hands they fell after almost a decade of liberal political malfeasance culminating in their irresponsible support for the Sunni side in the Syrian Civil War.

Let’s map what that would look like

1. The Democrats sabotaged the Iraq War by preventing any enforcement action against the Syrian origin of the suicide bombers and terror squads in the early days of the post-war period. Meanwhile Syrian WMDs had been smuggled into Syria.

2. The Democrats took power and then backed an Arab Spring that put Syria into the crosshairs of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, exposing the WMDs to those terrorists.

3. Either the terrorists get their hands on the WMDs, in which case the likelihood of them being used on the US or Israel is very high.

4. Alternatively Syria turns them over to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard which ships them to Iran.

But back to the story

As the regime of Bashar Assad disintegrates, the security of his chemical arsenal is in jeopardy. The No. 2 general in Saddam Hussein’s air force says they were the WMDs we didn’t find in Iraq.

In 2006, former Iraqi general Georges Sada, second in command of the Iraqi Air Force who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, wrote a comprehensive book, “Saddam’s Secrets.”

It details how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria in advance of the U.S.-led action to eliminate Hussein’s WMD threat.

As Sada told the New York Sun, two Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, and special Republican Guard units loaded the planes with chemical weapons materials.

There were 56 flights disguised as a relief effort after a 2002 Syrian dam collapse.

There were also truck convoys into Syria. Sada’s comments came more than a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.”

Just to add to the general cheerful tidings, there are claims, unverified, that some WMDs were transferred to Hezbollah.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; lebanon; syria; waronterror
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1 posted on 12/09/2012 6:05:45 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

We all knew this...but the Low informed Voters have no clue..they only know an believe what they are told to know and believe.
Its so OREWELLIAN to be scary
Freegards
LEX


2 posted on 12/09/2012 6:12:56 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: smoothsailing

Isn’t Syria getting ready to use them?


3 posted on 12/09/2012 6:13:19 PM PST by BreezyDog (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: smoothsailing
Will DID Saddam’s WMDs Fall into the Hands of Al Qaeda?
4 posted on 12/09/2012 6:13:23 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: smoothsailing

There were no WMD’s in Iraq. The MSM has told us over and over again.


5 posted on 12/09/2012 6:14:59 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: BreezyDog

Just a guess, but Assad is probably deciding on a reliable proxy.


6 posted on 12/09/2012 6:16:16 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
Will Saddam’s WMDs Fall into the Hands of Al Qaeda?

How do we know they haven't already?

7 posted on 12/09/2012 6:16:16 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: smoothsailing

8 posted on 12/09/2012 6:17:40 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: smoothsailing

The big question — If it is true Sadaam’s weapons of mass destruction went to Syria, why did the Bush administration not level with the American people?


9 posted on 12/09/2012 6:20:28 PM PST by Soul of the South
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To: Soul of the South

bttt


10 posted on 12/09/2012 6:23:44 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: SkyDancer

President Bush said it too.


11 posted on 12/09/2012 6:24:07 PM PST by Hepsabeth
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To: smoothsailing

Karma........huge Karma.....


12 posted on 12/09/2012 6:25:04 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Hepsabeth

I remember seeing him and Powell on TV saying there were WMD’s while everyone in media said there weren’t any, that it was just one of the excuses to invade. I should have put a </sarc at the end of my post.


13 posted on 12/09/2012 6:27:21 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Soul of the South
We telegraphed the punch for 6 months leading into the initial assault...It didn't matter to him. The damage was done trying to prove it to the Congress, U.N. and the American people.

It is going to take something like the Syria crisis to prove the Bush admin. was really on the level.

14 posted on 12/09/2012 6:27:53 PM PST by BreezyDog (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: smoothsailing

Obama will invade Syria, grab the WMD, then blame Bush for letting it out of Iraq.


15 posted on 12/09/2012 6:28:12 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Soul of the South
The big question — If it is true Sadaam’s weapons of mass destruction went to Syria, why did the Bush administration not level with the American people?

Great question. My theory is that the Bush admin knew it was likely they went to Syria but could not prove it exclusively. They did not have sufficient political capital to claim something again that they could not fully prove beyond a shadow of a doubt. They just got burnt on the world stage by not finding them in Iraq. The nature of stuff like this makes it really difficult to nail down unless you capture the weapons

16 posted on 12/09/2012 6:29:52 PM PST by plain talk
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction


17 posted on 12/09/2012 6:41:45 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: smoothsailing

When one thinks of libya, one has to believe the groups that should not have the weapons are awash with these types of weapons. mb and every other terrorists group is best guess currently having access never imagined before, thanks to the new normal.


18 posted on 12/09/2012 6:46:27 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: smoothsailing

I said years and years ago that they were convoyed to Syria.

Why W didn’t pass this on to the citizenry is beyond me. Why he made a joke about the missing WMDs (looking under the lectern) is also beyond me.

Something fishy.

And now they may be used.

I guess Obammie the Commie will have this fall miraculously in his lap so that he can walk away the hero after everyone else has done the deed for him.


19 posted on 12/09/2012 6:48:02 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: smoothsailing

Unconfirmed reports say that Assad let the genie out of the bottle today. As in used mustard gas. Speculative reports say Turks were killed. If true, then the SHTF in a Biblical way...


20 posted on 12/09/2012 6:52:25 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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