***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 19

"Has Tariq Aziz issued any statments lately?(-)"

Hmm. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Tariq since that first night when Saddam borrowed his Mr. Magoo glasses for his TV appearance. Has anyone else seen him?

3,781 posted on 04/07/2003 12:25:31 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Is there a cure for FR withdrawal?)

Peggy Noonan

It is amazing...these wonderful and brave young men and women, who have grown up with the media telling them how awful the United States is, how wrong it is to love your country, are our present-day patriots...our newest "greatest generation".

3,782 posted on 04/07/2003 12:25:39 PM PDT by Mrs.Liberty

*LOL* Not from personal experience I hope! ;^P

3,783 posted on 04/07/2003 12:26:17 PM PDT by AZLadyhawke (Livin' in the wild, wild West)

Had to go do my hour and half of home schooling. Did I miss anything!

3,784 posted on 04/07/2003 12:27:12 PM PDT by knak (kelly in alaska)

Hey, everyone

I just got home

Can I get an update on what's happened since noon???

Thanks ahead of time

3,785 posted on 04/07/2003 12:28:22 PM PDT by ztiworoh

3,786 posted on 04/07/2003 12:28:44 PM PDT by Dog

We need names for Robert Fisk (who I thought at first was "Baghdad Bob") and the doom and gloom Sky News guy.

3,787 posted on 04/07/2003 12:30:40 PM PDT by NewsJunqui

Pentagon Briefing is prolly the biggest news. Check out Ragtime Cowgirl's excellent recap at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/886807/posts?page=3669#3669 .

3,788 posted on 04/07/2003 12:30:46 PM PDT by Quilla

A real hero -- is never perfect -- but still has the guts to stand alone against the potent and many for the sake of good!

Israel's Spy Was Right About Saddam
August 6, 1998 - Angelo M. Codevilla - The Wall Street Journal
Former naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard confessed to passing classified documents to Israel without authorization between 1981 and 1985. For this, he was rightly sent to prison for espionage. People who spy for allied countries and who spare the U.S. government the revelations of a trial usually get sentences averaging four years. What extraordinary things, then, must Pollard have done to draw a life sentence?
Prison sentences are supposed to be proportional to the harm done. The preface to the still-secret memorandum filed with the court by then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger states that "it is difficult to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by [Pollard]." But while Pollard's espionage subverted US policy in the Middle East, it barely hurt Washington's intelligence operations. [...]
The difference between the pictures the U.S. government was giving to Israel and the ones that it was withholding lay not in sources or methods, but in the subject. Some senior officials of the U.S. government had decided that Israel should not have certain information about Iraq and other Arab countries because the officials did not like what Israel was doing with it. [...]
Some senior U.S. officials were angry at Israel for getting in the way of their Middle East policy. In 1981, shortly after Israel had bombed the Osirak reactor that had been the centerpiece of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program, Deputy Central Intelligence Agency Director Bobby Ray Inman went to Capitol Hill to criticize the Israelis, who had used U.S. satellite pictures to plan the bombing. Mr. Inman said they had harmed sophisticated U.S. efforts to build an important relationship with Saddam. Therefore he personally had just cut Israel off from satellite information about Iraq and later began to send satellite pictures to Saddam.
Mr. Inman was acting on behalf of many of the principal makers of U.S. foreign policy, including Mr. Weinberger and later Secretary of State George Shultz, who during the 1980s sacrificed much for their vision of a fruitful relationship with Saddam. Mr.Inman reported to incredulous senators in 1982 that U.S.intelligence no longer supported the conclusion that Iraq was a major sponsor of terrorism. High-level officials dismissed concerns about Baghdad's purchase of a chemical facility that became the centerpiece of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons program and during the 1980s these officials provided Saddam with U.S. weapons and intelligence. These officials also knew about--and failed to hinder--the transfer of German technology to the Saad 16 missile factory in northern Iraq.
This policy, vigorously pursued by Washington until the very eve of the Gulf War, turned Iraq into a danger to mankind. This policy helped supply the technologies that killed U.S. soldiers in the Gulf War--the technologies for which inspectors now are searching fruitlessly and that may well kill other Americans in the future.
Pollard's sin is blowing the whistle on an embarrassing policy--a sin for which he is serving a life sentence instead of four years. [..]
In the U.S., the penalty for subverting policy is being fired. For espionage on behalf of allies,the usual penalty is four years. Pollard has more than paid his debt.
Source: Wall Street Journal clipping from www.jonathanpollard.org

Pollard's mistake and violation of his oath was done to take out the killer Saddam, or at least to protect our ally, Israel, from harm by that murderer and his murderers.

As President George Bush said to Ilan Ramon's widow and family, "We are going to finish the job" that Israel's heros started on that day they took out Saddam's nuclear bomb making reactor.

3,789 posted on 04/07/2003 12:32:42 PM PDT by bvw

So, my Lib co-worker just told me that they did confirm finding chemicals in Iraq......

They found LSD in the water at the Information Ministry Office.

That explains it!!

3,790 posted on 04/07/2003 12:35:38 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Make that EX-Democrat)

The BIG hairy unshaven women.

3,791 posted on 04/07/2003 12:35:45 PM PDT by Jaded (Close the BORDERS and the CHECKBOOK!! (schpelin iz opshenul))

Is this a little case of "Let's see what the silly journalist will believe"? The AP has identified the soldier in the center of this shot...

...as "Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett".

"Chad Touchett"?!?

3,792 posted on 04/07/2003 12:36:43 PM PDT by Redcloak (All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)

They just showed Sadaam's gold plated faucet bathroom on FNC,

I hope our guys get to take the Mother of All Showers--they sure earned it.

3,793 posted on 04/07/2003 12:37:28 PM PDT by TomGuy

We should be able to help the Senataur find a title for her book.

"To Serve Mankind"

3,794 posted on 04/07/2003 12:37:59 PM PDT by null and void (Outer Limits reference...)

To: null and void

Hey, I like that better. May I use it as my daily attention grabber starting tomorrow?

3,795 posted on 04/07/2003 12:38:01 PM PDT by Vol2727 (So they could race the sun.........)

I think you are asking about the finding of serious amounts of chemical warheads, etc not just trace amounts.

3,796 posted on 04/07/2003 12:39:21 PM PDT by maica (Home of the FREE because of the BRAVE)

"I need a break, guys! I suddenly feel like Satan is grilling my stomach in Hell!"

3,797 posted on 04/07/2003 12:39:47 PM PDT by VadeRetro

esplodere Ali Chimico

Hee hee hee...

3,798 posted on 04/07/2003 12:40:00 PM PDT by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)

To: null and void

Don;t you have the word order mixed up here?

3,799 posted on 04/07/2003 12:40:50 PM PDT by CasearianDaoist

To: Bush_Democrat

LOL .. that would be the only explaination

3,800 posted on 04/07/2003 12:41:16 PM PDT by Mo1 (Can I ask the media stupid questions?)

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