Obama Moves "Red Line" On Syria's Chemical Weapons

IBD EDITORIALS ^ | December 10, 2012

[raptor22]

Iraqi general Georges Sada says Saddam Hussein moved his WMD to Syria and they were hid among Syria's stockpile. Read his book, Saddam's Secrets".

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

but of course NOT ONE of our Rep politicians is shouting this from the rooftop.They are such nerds, the goody too-shoes from high school, they just can’t play by street rules or even close.
THAT’S why we keep losing the votes..they just can’t get the message across to the average voter.

[MachIV]

I remember in the run up to the Iraq War in 2002/2003, it was reported that Sadam was possibly moving chemical weapons into Syria.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Obama Moves "Red Line" On Syria's Chemical Weapons...hmmm - Obama is probably going to try to run away from this as long as he can - too much focus on Syria's chemical weapons and people will start talking about where they came from, and then it will become understood that they started out in Iraq and there really were WMD's before the war, and there goes another big lie about evil George Bush - shattered.....

[raptor22]

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[Strategerist]

but of course NOT ONE of our Rep politicians is shouting this from the rooftop

That Syria has chemical weapons does nothing to prove Iraq had chemical weapons in 2003.

Hence the absence of rooftop-shouting.

[raptor22]

[elkfersupper]

Obama cannot “move” anything but an uninformed electorate, and he does that very well.

[Strategerist]

too much focus on Syria's chemical weapons and people will start talking about where they came from, and then it will become understood that they started out in Iraq

People have been talking about where Syria's chemical weapons come from since 1973 - they're from Egypt, Libya, the Soviet Union, and indigenous production plants that have been able to buy precursor chemicals from Europe by hook or by crook.

[Windflier]

"...may have come from a stockpile that Iraq used against its own people and which the Russians helped transport to Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom."

Hang on, that's impossible. We were ASSURED that Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction when Bush went in to take him down.

The press and the Democrats wouldn't lie about such a thing, would they?

[yoe]

You are right....there are satellite pictures showing trucks doing just that. I had for a long time, a letter from a GI to his father telling him how his 'group' were tasked with blowing up huge ammo dumps etc. The MSM and anti Bush/anti war folks kept the lies out there on the air, boob tube, and in the newspapers....we rarely ever got a factual bit of news and if we did, the left shot it down as fast as they could. Baghdad Bob was their friend at first....why should we believe what is being put out there now...no one has questioned Hillary or Obama about Benghazi and the Fast & Furious quick step has almost vanished....our community organizer can threaten all he wants....man! do the al Qaeda tremble....Ohhh, I forgot, Obama and Hillary say they have been defeated............

[raptor22]

[Strategerist]

I’ve been in multiple classes taught by people who were VERY highly placed in the intelligence community and in military intelligence in 2003-2004. No classified discussed, but they talk a lot about their experiences, some off-the-record stuff. None of these people are rabid leftists, Bush-haters, etc.

They’ve all devoted entire classes to how our intelligence was wrong about Iraq having an active CW program in 2003.

We sincerely believed they had a program, as did the Europeans and all the other Arab states - there wasn’t any sort of Bush conspiracy to fabricate a program, though there was subtle-to-not-so-subtle pressure by the administration to get the reporting from the IC that they wanted.

Not a one has given the slightest credence to claims they had an active program/stockpile and it was moved to Syria.

There was indeed a scattering of very old shells, etc. left over from the pre-1991 program. Would have been impossible to find and get rid of them all, even the US turned out to have randomly buried some WWI chemical shells below American University in DC.

[BenLurkin]

[justa-hairyape]

Well, how about 2002 ? Excerpt from article.

An article in the fall 2005 Middle East Quarterly reports that on Israel's Channel 2 on Dec. 23, 2002, Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, stated, "Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria."

[raptor22]

[Gator113]

Define “whole bunch”. Perhaps Obama’s whole bunch is really, really, really big and perhaps Assad doesn’t actually have a whole bunch.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

do you think for one moment the Dems would not use this to say” No doubt , in the mystery of what might have happened to the WMD’s maybe, as many have said, they went to Syria and now we see them.”

Your response is accurate, put typically like our conservatives, not politically helpful. We can learn how to play the DEM PR game and STILL be honest, not lying like they do.That was my point.

[jesseam]

In the summer of 2005 we found a rail terminal in Anbar Provinceth with a well used road going into Syria where Saddams CW were transported. I also witnessed the results of the WMD on the Kurds. Saddam HAD chemical weapons>>>>>

[raptor22]