Posted on 04/20/2004 5:23:18 PM PDT by Bayou City
Don't Be Surprised When Iraqi WMD Found
April 20, 2004
I don't know if you heard about this, because it has not been widely reported. Terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda were poised to detonate a chemical bomb in the heart of Amman, Jordan, that would have killed 20,000 people and contaminated a large area. King Abdullah praised Jordan's intelligence service for foiling a crime never before seen in the kingdom of Jordan. The target was a headquarters of the general intelligence department on a hill in Amman.
King Abdullah was to be in America to meet with President Bush, but decided not to come because of this threat. Where this story gets interesting is that King Abdullah of Jordan says that the vehicles carrying these explosives, the chemical bomb, were smuggled over the border from neighboring Syria. Syria is denying this, but these are weapons of mass destruction.
Syria is a transit point for weapons of mass destruction. The whole subject of where are the weapons of mass destruction remains a focal point of mine. It remains an area of heightened curiosity, because I do not believe that they have been destroyed. I do not believe that Iraq never had them. I think Iraq had them. I think Iraq was working on them. I don't think the world's intelligence agencies are as woefully incompetent and bad and inept as the whole weapons of mass destruction issue would lead us to believe.
There are some things missing from buildings in Iraq, and there's too much speculation out there about how some of this stuff can be miniaturized and transported out of the country easily. Syria is an obvious place, and many people I respect have pointed to the Bekaa Valley as a place as well. We're not going to invade Syria any time soon to find out, but this is the second example of weapons of mass destruction-type coming out of Syria.
Now, they had to get to Syria somehow. I just want to keep your mind open to the possibility that these weapons of mass destruction from Iraq are somewhere, and they've not been destroyed. They haven't just vanished into the ether, and I'm going to make a prediction to you that all of the liberals and critics of the president who have harped on this and jumped on this have once again jumped the gun. They are a little premature here because we don't know yet what, if anything, did happen to those weapons of mass destruction, despite knowing that they did exist. So keep your hats on and don't be surprised down the road what is learned at some point.
Yellow cake uranium has been found at junk yards in Rotterdam and that's exactly what Iraq was looking for. This stuff could have been disbursed over the years to any number of places, and if you think that an Al-Qaeda related group is going to blow up Amman, Jordan with weapons that were procured from Syria, if you think that Al-Qaeda is not related to what all was going on in Iraq, and the Middle East, then you are engaged in blindness or wishful thinking. That is the position of the left, and that's why they can't be trusted to be placed in a leadership position.
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I'll be surprised if they're not.
File this under "The sun comes up in the morning."
I'll be po'd because I know they had them and if they don't have them now some other bad guys do.
In fact, I think anybody who claims they did not have CB weapons should be on the ward with Nurse Ratchet, left, right or center.
And, while we're at it, why don't we get the hell out of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, too. We "won" them in an "illegal imperialist war". These "backwaters" have also suffered under our "enlightened despotism".
Then, there's Alaska and Hawaii, of course. And what about the Louisiana Purchase? It was nothing more than greedy capitalist excess.
Yes! That's it! America should retreat to the original 13 sovereign states and let the rest of the world take care of itself.
Brigadier, huh?
Good. Maybe now you will wake up and stop believing the lies you are fed by people like Irving Kristol:
The Neoconservative Persuasion
From the August 25, 2003 issue: What it was, and what it is.
by Irving Kristol
"Viewed in this way, one can say that the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy."If you truly intend to terminate interest in the point of view espoused by Kristol and his cohorts, then maybe you can do something to stop their effort "to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills" into something that is utterly opposed to everything that conservatives have stood for from the time of George Washington.
No. There were WMDs in Iraq and the only question now is what happened to them. If you have any facts or logic to offer besides cynicism, go ahead and post them.
I wouldn't be surprised. You are not an intellectual giant.
That's not for publication. Just between the two of us. O.K.?
I don't get it.
Are you saying you'd rather have the Taliban and Saddam back in power?
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