Posted on 07/25/2006 8:40:08 AM PDT by jveritas
Edited on 07/25/2006 9:20:12 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
We even attacked the caravan. They had a diplomat with some luggage and he got on the horn with Putin, who notified the UN that their diplomatic immunity was being violated by the US troops.
We pulled back and followed them.
We could not 'prove' what they had to the public because we could not interfere with the convoy.
But we know what they were taking out.
Keep it up!
Excellent job.
"This is probably why the Administration is playing its cards close to the vest, to allow the left-wing moonbats to keep digging their "no WMD" hole deeper and deeper."
Let's think real hard about this theory, which I've seen expoused since right after we went into Iraq.
One thing that would almost certainly bolster support of the war in the U.S., in Iraq, and elsewhere in the world would be to show that Saddam had gobs of WMD that he could have used to threaten the world. More support -- particularly in Iraq -- would mean an earlier end to most hostilties, which would save lives, including American military lives.
So if the administration is indeed withholding solid proof of WMD for political purposes, they are very likely doing so at the cost of some lives and piles and piles of money.
Do I really think they're doing this? No, at least I sure as heck hope not. I just think they don't have anything solid to show us.
Thanks for this one! Do you have a ping list?
Freeper “eyespysomething” is the one who organizes and maintains the ping list on the Iraq Prewardocs, please contact her on this issue.
Another great find! Thanks for the ping and all the hard work!
That fearlessness is probably based on the MAD principal. Syria has a very capable Scud based Chemical WMD home made capability. They also possibly just recently achieved biological WMD capabilities. Saddam toys would have been very useful to the Syrians, but now they are probably integrated into Syria's WMD programs and are therefore impossible to accurately identify as Saddam's Old Toys. The facilities within Syria are very extensive. Here is a link for their Al Safir Scud Base and Weapons Depot.
Thank you for the link.
Yes, that link is actually to JVeritas' translation which came to me from another source.
It shows that his (JV's) great work is getting noticed.
AH: Here we are: a DEBKA synopsis of their reports of convoy traffic moving WMDs out of Iraq while the UN dithered:
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http://www.debka-net-weekly.com/issue.pl?username=&inumber=131#507
The heavy traffic detected by General Clapper’s satellites was reported by DEBKA-Net-Weekly on three different dates.
DNW 97, February 14, 2003, a little over a month before the war began, disclosed: “In the last two weeks, our military sources discovered that Iraq staged a major removal of its forbidden weapons systems, sending them overland by truck to Lebanon via Syria.”
DNW 106, April 25, 2003, 10 days after the capture of Baghdad, reported: “Though on the run, he (Saddam) retains control of sufficient stocks of unconventional weapons, intelligence, assets and money to wage war on the United States from bases and hideouts outside Iraq, where some of his WMD systems are also tucked away.”
Those systems, of course, had been hidden in Syria.
DNW 107, May 2, the day after President George W. Bush declared major combat in Iraq at an end, pointed to Syria as “having secretly disposed of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction” by hiding them in three places – two in the Lebanese Beqaa and one in Syria. The first site is located in a valley stretching between the Jabal Akroum Mountains and the Lebanese town of al Qabayyat and the Syrian border; the second at a point lying between the Lebanese towns of al Labway and Hirmil between the Orontes River and the Lebanese-Syrian border.
The third site is Syria’s underground military industrial facilities near Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city.
bttt
Bush should address the American People directly with the facts,I cannot understand why he has not.
Your work is spreading. Thank you.
he's doing a job as best he can, rather than trying to win arguments
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