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To: Dog
Thanks, Dog.

Among the items Hoekstra wants released quickly are 68 Iraqi documents that his office requested last fall and recently obtained. Hoekstra says there is "no silver bullet, no smoking gun" in those documents, but that their contents are nonetheless very interesting.

"Saddam Hussein and his henchmen systematically destroyed much of the good stuff," says Hoekstra. "We want to see what he missed." Indeed, in one memo found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), the director of Iraqi Intelligence commands recipients to burn their offices. Paul Bremer, in his book My Year in Iraq, describes reading a similar memo. He writes: "Operatives were to engage in sabotage and looting."

Is it just me, or did he just contradict himself on the 'smoking gun'? He said they didn't find one, but in his next, saddam destroyed them.

209 posted on 03/13/2006 3:26:38 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: pbrown

The smoking gun if there is one will be one in the digital area(computer hard drives). They might not have had time to dump it.


214 posted on 03/13/2006 3:30:02 PM PST by Dog
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