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To: FreedomPoster

He feels the government is using the Sept 11 attack to justify taking away our freedoms.

He said the Iraq war was based on a lie that may have been the result of bad intelligence. But he implied there were no WMD’s


5 posted on 05/28/2014 7:29:32 PM PDT by zeebee (There are no coincidences.)
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He said the Iraq war was based on a lie that may have been the result of bad intelligence.

This was already known. The claim that Saddam was trying to obtain yellowcake came from Italian intelligence, but was later determined to be fabricated. However, no one either knows or wants to admit who did it, or why.

I'm not sure it made any difference, as Saddam already had tons of yellowcake. It was eventually shipped to Canada.

But he implied there were no WMD’s

Saddam claimed there were none after he was captured, in an interview with an FBI interrogator. But, Saddam also said that he pretended to have them, as a bluff. He had many enemies, and the US wasn't even at the top of the list. I think Saddam didn't believe the US had the political will to invade.

Saddam also said that he was biding his time until sanctions were lifted, so he could start his WMD development again.

And, there's that convoy of trucks to Syria before the invasion (captured in a satellite image). Subsequent investigation concluded that it was unlikely it was WMD, but admitted it wasn't possible to rule it out completely. One has to wonder if any of it ended up in that factory that Israel bombed into oblivion a few years afterward. Syria plowed over it and buried everything, with nary a protest.

13 posted on 05/28/2014 8:18:16 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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