SADDAM IN 'TERROR TAPE' (British tape)

sky news ^ | 2/5/04

[knak]

New footage has been released purporting to show Saddam Hussein paying large sums of money to a terrorist group.

Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Nicholson says the footage is "incontrovertible proof" of the former Iraqi dictator's links to international terrorism.

It appears to show the former Iraqi President plotting crimes and paying money to members of an international terrorist group.

Baroness Nicholson says the group of men in the footage looked after Saddam's chemical and biological warfare.

The footage given to Sky News was reportedly looted from one of Saddam's palaces.

There has been no independent confirmation of the tapes and Sky News cannot verify their veracity.

However, Baroness Nicholson says there is no doubt the footage highlights Saddam's links to terrorism and chemical weapons.

"This is incontrovertible proof of Saddam Hussein's involvement in international terrorism," she said.

[aynrandfreak]

I've seen that pic here before, but never with who the bad guy is (besides Kerry & Harkin). I'm guessing it's Ortega?

[Samwise]

Bush lied. Bush was awol. Bush is dumb. Sadam is placing a Girl Scout cookie order. yada. yada. yada.

[Stentor]

Did John Fn Kerry sign the "Dear Commandante letter?

[lambo]

Did you see the article a couple days ago on GWB's time at Harvard Business School? The poker playing was a bit of an arcane reference, I'll grant you, but go find it -- it's well worth it -- and you'll see what I was referring to. (Search for "GWB HBS MBA".)

[RippleFire]

bump

[GailA]

Who are the bad guy in this photo?

[kcvl]

ROFLOL!

[kcvl]

Ex-Nicaragua Leader Voices Saddam Support


Saturday December 20, 2003 2:31 AM


By ISIDRO LOPEZ


Associated Press Writer


MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Saddam Hussein still has at least one friend abroad: Former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega expressed support for the ousted Iraqi leader, saying Friday it would be a ``barbarity'' to force him to stand trial under U.S. occupation.

SNIP

Ortega traveled to Baghdad to express support for Saddam, who was facing a U.S.-led military buildup before the first Gulf War. Ortega met again with Saddam in 1993, saying he hoped to help end the country's international isolation.

[Keith]

Daniel Ortega, leader of the Leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua...

[kcvl]

THEY NEVER MET A COMMIE THEY DIDN'T LIKE...


Campus radicals supported the Panthers. They organized mass protests in support of the so-called "New Haven Nine." Hillary was right in the thick of it.

By the time she entered Yale Law School in 1969, Hillary was already a radical celebrity on campus. Life magazine had featured Hillary in a piece titled, "The Class of ’69," which showcased three student activists whom Life’s editors deemed the best and brightest of the year. A line Hillary used in her Wellesley College commencement speech appeared under her photo: "Protest is an attempt to forge an identity." (2)

At Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action – a leftwing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police. (3)

A series of hard-Left mentors introduced Hillary to the brass-knuckle realities of revolutionary activism. As a Wellesley undergraduate, she met and interviewed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, whose Machiavellian tactics she admired. Hillary’s senior thesis supported Alinsky's call for class warfare. (4)

At Yale, Hillary found a new Svengali, in the form of leftwing law professor Thomas Emerson, known around campus as "Tommy the Commie." Emerson recruited Hillary and other students to help monitor the trial of the New Haven Nine for civil rights violations. Hillary took charge of the operation, scheduling the students in shifts, so that student monitors would always be present in the courtroom. She befriended and worked closely with Panther lawyer Charles Garry. (5)

Some believe that the enormous pressure exerted by the Left helped ensure light sentences for the New Haven Nine. Whether or not this is true, the punishments were mild.

"Only one of the killers was still in prison in 1977," reports John McCaslin in the Washington Times. "The gunman, Warren Kimbro, got a Harvard scholarship and became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Ericka Huggins, who boiled the water for Mr. Rackley's torture, got elected to a California school board." (6)

Hillary’s defenders argue that she played no "significant" role in the New Haven Nine’s defense. This is semantic hairsplitting. Obviously, Hillary was less "significant" than Charles Garry or "Tommy the Commie" Emerson. But Hillary served as a trusted lieutenant to these movers and shakers. Moreover, she had a national profile as a campus activist. Hillary was no rank-and-file student protester, as her apologists claim.

Indeed, Hillary’s work for the Panthers won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. (7) "Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB," notes historian Stephen Schwartz. (8)

The defense of the New Haven Nine marked Hillary’s initiation into the sinister underworld of the hardcore, revolutionary Left. To my knowledge, Hillary has never publicly renounced nor apologized for her role in that movement.

[kcvl]

Chevy Chase, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Al Franken, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, George Soros, Harold Ickes, Lauri David, all attended the Bush Bash last night in New York, for the “media fund” which is being run by Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton’s “adviser”.

[Dan(9698)]

>>>...you'll see what I was referring to

The ability for mis-direction as in poker is also used in chess.

You get your opponent mis-directed and looking at one thing when in fact you are setting up another.

The difference is, you don't have to trust to luck, or a turn of the card. You have a lot more control and who wins has very little to do with luck.

[GailA]

Thanks, I'm fairly new to politics about 5 years now.

[VeniVidiVici]

I believe that picture in #38 is Sandinista Ortega negotiating with terrorists. Birds of a feather, you know?

[BagCamAddict]

secret negotions going on between Saddam and North Korea

Many people said "no way would North Korea and Iraq (Al Qaeda, bin Laden, etc.) hook up with each other"...

And I still say: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

It would not surprise me one bit to find the members of the Axis of Evil in a secret coalition against the U.S.

[reformedliberal]

I believe what lambo is refering to is W's notorious tactic of sitting quietly with his hand, allowing his opponents to bet large and then quietly taking the entire pot.

But,IMO, he plays Risk and chess equally well. Maybe even Go.

[eureka!]

"The Rats are playing without a clue of what cards are in Pres. Bush's hand."

Yep. The power of the pulpit also comes with some good resources. Hehehehe....

[George W. Bush]

It'll be interesting to see what comes of this. One would think that Blair or the Defense Secretary or Foreign Secretary would be the ones to announce it. But perhaps there is a reason why they chose her.

At any rate, well worth watching as it develops.

Politics would be so much simpler and less tedious this year if these initial claims are substantiated beyond question. Everyone, even France, could put all this behind us.

[George W. Bush]

Many people said "no way would North Korea and Iraq (Al Qaeda, bin Laden, etc.) hook up with each other"...

It's well-established that North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya were all in cahoots with each other. Trade, contraband acquistion, etc. Toss in Castro and Chavez and you have the whole enchilada.