Posted on 12/04/2012 4:49:04 PM PST by raptor22
War On Terror: As the regime of Bashar Assad disintegrates, the security of his chemical arsenal is in jeopardy. The No. 2 general in Saddam Hussein's air force says they were the WMDs we didn't find in Iraq.
King Abdullah of neighboring Jordan warned that a disintegrating Syria on the verge of civil war puts Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons at risk of falling into the hands of al-Qaida.
"One of the worst-case scenarios as we are obviously trying to look for a political solution would be if some of those chemical stockpiles were to fall into unfriendly hands," he said.
The irony here is that the chemical weapons stockpile of Syrian thug Assad may in large part be the legacy of weapons moved from Hussein's Iraq into Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
If so, this may be the reason not much was found in the way of WMD by victorious U.S. forces in 2003.
In 2006, former Iraqi general Georges Sada, second in command of the Iraqi Air Force who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, wrote a comprehensive book, "Saddam's Secrets."
It details how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria in advance of the U.S.-led action to eliminate Hussein's WMD threat.
As Sada told the New York Sun, two Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, and special Republican Guard units loaded the planes with chemical weapons materials.
(Excerpt) Read more at tcotblog.ning.com ...
When do the apologies to Bush/Cheney begin to materialize?
Strange, the author calls Assad a thug but he was trustworthy enough to keep the chemical weapons.
IIRC, they watched it real time on imagery in the CENTCOM situation room. I think Rifle DeLong mentioned it in his book too.
Partially true. Actually a lot was found in Iraq.
Those two realities re not mutually exclusive. Are you among those who choose not to believe that WMDs were moved to Syria? It certainly doesn't reduce the emboldenment of a horrible dictator to augment his storehouse of weapons.
I choose to appeal to Occam's Razor in the discussion of this topic.
And the Syrian rebels have Libyan dirty weapons. How many Russians are in Syria now? Do we really want to send NATO and US Troops to bring peace. Obama is setting stage for war. Beware of the false red flag where Assad will be wrongly blamed for releasing NBC on his own people.
Politicians and DOD can’t even shave the beard off of the murdering terrorist Major from Ft Hood.
Obama is up to amateurish games without regard to our national security.
A nit picking irrelevancy. The additional WMDs are just as dangerous whether Syria already had similar weapons or not.
Here’s some research for you:
The Russian Army moved key CW factory elements to Syria, ahead of the U.S. Invasion. THAT is the “convoy” effort the Iraqi referred to.
Just because Syria had CW, doesn’t meant Iraqi CW weren’t moved there.
Thanks raptor22.
“”most of the WMD chemicals ended up in our incinerators in the states””
Where are these incincerators and what is the source for this?
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