My Letter To Bill O'Reilly Tonight

The Factor-Fox News ^ | 7-30-2003 | Self

[Matchett-PI]

Greetings Mr. O'Reilly,

If you're not just playing dumb, and really don't know where the WMD are, may I suggest that you get Kenneth R. Timmerman (of Insight Mag.) as a guest on your show --- SOON!

This is the second night in a row I watched you parroting the Democrat mantra, demanding that Bush tell us where the WMD are.

You appear to be out of the loop. That's not good that someone in your position is so much in the dark about what's going on.

I've provided you some succinct excerpts and links to what Mr. Timmerman wrote when he accompanied Powell to Syria on May 3, 2003. This will get you up to speed. I'll look forward to seeing Mr. Timmerman on your show.

Warm regards, [Name and Town]

Sending a Serious Message to Syria

Posted May 28, 2003 By Kenneth R. Timmerman

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/437029.html

"The May 3 meeting in the presidential palace on the hilltop overlooking Damascus was short and to the point.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, flanked by State Department Arabists, told Syrian dictator Bashar Assad that the U.S. victory in Iraq had changed the way America plans to do business in the Middle East.

The days of the cozy deals and of winking and nodding at Syrian support for terrorism were ended. He then presented Assad with a list of U.S. demands that was nothing short of breathtaking.

Powell told the Syrian president that the United States requires him to help in the search for hidden Iraqi weapons.

The United States believes the weapons were taken in convoys of tanker trucks to Syria last fall, along with key production equipment, and buried in the Syrian desert shortly before U.N. arms inspectors returned to Iraq.

Powell demanded that Syria locate and turn over Iraqi weapons scientists and top-ranking Ba'ath Party officials who had been granted sanctuary by Syria once Gulf War II began. ... [end excerpt]

Not-So-Secret Iraqi-Syrian Deals - Posted May 28, 2003

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=437030

Middle East analysts will tell you that Syria and Iraq long have been enemies, citing their leaders' rival visions of Ba'ath Party dictatorship. And they were right until Hafez Assad died in June 2000. Almost as soon as son Bashar took power, things began to change.

In November 2000, the younger Assad agreed to reopen a 500-mile oil pipeline, which soon began hauling an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 barrels per day from the Kirkuk oil fields of Iraq to Syria's Mediterranean export terminal at Banias. For Assad and Saddam Hussein, it was a gold mine. The pipeline deal gave Saddam an estimated $1.5 billion to $2 billion per year on the black market, with hefty transit fees going to Assad in the bargain.

Just two months later, on Jan. 31, 2001, the two countries agreed to double their $500 million-per-year trade, and triple it by 2002.

Gary C. Gambill, writing in the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, reported that Assad had dispatched his younger brother, Maher Assad, to Baghdad on a secret two-day visit shortly before the trade agreement was inked to discuss military cooperation with Qusay Hussein.

Following that visit, agreements were drafted to hide Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in Syria should U.N. inspections resume, and later, when the coalition attack became imminent, to provide sanctuary to fleeing Iraqi leaders.

According to published reports, Syria also served as a conduit for weapons and spare parts that Iraq purchased on the black market in Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and France, in defiance with the U.N. embargo.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned in an interview with Israeli television on Dec. 24, 2002, that Iraq already had trucked the bulk of its weapons stockpiles to Syria earlier in the autumn, before the arrival of the U.N. inspectors.

After intense U.S. pressure, Bashar Assad has handed over several key Iraqi weapons scientists and intelligence officers, including Farouk Hijazi, believed to be the key link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. But hundreds of other Iraqis are reported to have escaped through Syria.

For now, Assad appears to be wedded to his lies. When asked by Lally Weymouth of Newsweek about the escaping Iraqis, Assad insisted that once the war began no one was allowed to come. "We allowed families to come to Syria, women and children," Assad said. "But we were suspicious of some of the relatives - that they had positions in the past and were responsible for killings in Syria in the eighties."

Kenneth R. Timmerman is a senior writer for Insight.

More: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/920692/posts?page=6#6 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921005/posts?page=39#39 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921194/posts?page=49#49

[Matchett-PI]

It's bad enough that the DemocRAT media outlets are beating the "where are the WMD" drum day and night, but to have to listen to it on Fox, too, is getting a bit old.

At first I thought he was playing dumb, but now I'm beginning to think he isn't "playing" dumb. Hahahaha

[The Mayor]

I can hardly watch him anymore.

[Matchett-PI]

Bump!

[Consort]

O'Reilly is obsessed with the WMD thing. The Left doesn't need help in attacking Republicans and they won't like O'Reilly any better even if he attacks the administration as they do. He's also obsessed with FOX's unilateral policy of Fair and Balanced. I hate Fair and Balanced.

[truthandlife]

He is the absolute worst. He is so enamored about being accepted now into the "mainstream." His radio talk show is unbeareable to hear. How are his ratings on radio?

[The Mayor]

I don't know, don't really care. His arrogance permiates thru the airwaves.

[umgud]

I like Greta better than O'Reilly...... Even though I often agree with him, I just can't take his style and his one-track campaigns anymore. Remember how he beat to death the all white graduation party?

[xtorpedoman]

the guy is a twit.
end of story

[billbears]

I don't know about the only time I can stand O'Reilly is when he is asking important questions such as the one that apparently upset you. Of course, we'll never know but that bag of beans and the old buried centrifuge from 1991 a while back was something huh?

O'Reilly is a populist at best I think, he's no conservative. And I thought the administration had turned to Iran instead of Syria? Just as long as they stay away from the main terrorist supporting nation of Saudi Arabia right?

[Weimdog]

Little Chrissy Mathews wasd still parrotting the WMD mantra tonight. I guess he didn't get the message from Plantation master Clinton.

[UCANSEE2]

bookmark.

[nutmeg]

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[Kewlhand`tek]

i bet we found the WMD or know where it is in syria. I dont know what the strategy is to hold on to this info. If they announce tommorrow we found 3 nuke iCBMS 400 gallons of vx ect...the Libranazis would say we planted it. hell they would say if we was in iraq for 1 hour.

[Bombard]

I no longer watch the man. He has become very predictable and boring.

[nutmeg]

We barely watch O'Reilly anymore. You tune in every night and he's talking about child porn, children's nudist camps, college porn, sex and sex ed on college campuses, voyeurism... enough already!

As I've mentioned on other threads, we've been watching a lot more of Kudlow & Cramer on CNBC during that 8-9pm ET time slot lately.

[ZDaphne]

I seldom watch O'Reilly any more either. I believe he just "out talks" his guests when he is wrong and blusters alot more than he should. I admire his motives, but I think his success has gone to his head, and it shows.

[AHerald]

He's a demogogic, faux-populist blowhard and a self-serving phony. I used to love the guy, but O'Reilly's Howard Beal act has worn thin. It's all Me-me-me-I-I stuff. The show's become a laundry list of things that he's outraged about, so we too should be outraged about it. Every show he barks out another urgent proclamation that Bush or government, or Hollywood, or the music industry, or corporations, or society, or people who drive SUVs MUST ACT upon his demands or our whole nation faces dire conseqeunces ... blah, blah, blah.

He's big on bitching and moaning and short on solutions. He's terrific when he knows his subject, but he's a dismissive and interruptive jerk when confronted with guests who know more than him about a given subject.

[xtorpedoman]

all it takes is a little common sense here.
Iraq had a Nuc program as far back as 91....that was hard intel.
Iraq never quit working on that program....no...repeat NOBODY denies that.
if you have a lot of time to move something that will get you in a lot of trouble, you can pretty much add 2 and 2 and get the most likely awnser as oppossed to making it a scandal of how the Admin LIED.
do you have any idea how many tunnels and underground networks are in Iraq?...i don't either...but i am sure there a quite a few.
the very statement "There's very little that's secret about our capabilities in the overhead recon business, so there would certainly be no real reason we would not publish some of the pictures of this material being moved. "
shows by inference that if a birds scheduale is know then no activity of a certain nature will be taking place.
No .
I do Not concure with the idea being thrown around that there are no WMD.
They exist.....all thats left to do there is find out where the were HIDDEN.

[lowbridge]

Oreilly got his ass kicked by Ann Coulter:

Transcript of Coulter v. O'Reilly for FNC deprived