Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

UN Confirms: WMDs Smuggled Out of Iraq
The Vanguard ^ | June 18, 2004 | Rod D. Martin

Posted on 06/24/2004 12:35:11 AM PDT by Veritas_est

UN Confirms: WMDs Smuggled Out of Iraq

© June 18, 2004, Rod D. Martin

In a report which might alternately be termed “stunning” or “terrifying”, United Nations weapons inspectors confirmed last week not merely that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that he smuggled them out of his country, before, during and after the war.

Late last week, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) briefed the Security Council on Saddam's lightning-fast dismantling of missile and WMD sites before and during the war. UNMOVIC executive chairman Demetrius Perricos detailed not only the export of thousands of tons of missile components, nuclear reactor vessels and fermenters for chemical and biological warheads, but also the discovery of many (but not most) of these items - with UN inspection tags still on them -- as far afield as Jordan, Turkey and even Holland.

Notably absent from that list is Iraq's western neighbor Syria, ruled by its own Baath Party just like Saddam's and closed to even the thought of an UNMOVIC inspection. Israeli intelligence has been reporting the large-scale smuggling of Saddam's WMD program across the Syrian border since at least two months before the war. Syria has long been the world's foremost state-sponsor of terrorism.

Perricos highlighted the proliferation danger to the Security Council, as well he should: UNMOVIC has no idea where most of the WMD material is today, just that it exists and it's gone; and anything in Syria is likely to be in Jerusalem or New York tomorrow.

This is the biggest news story of 2004 so far. Yet you haven't heard about it, have you?

You probably haven't heard about Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin either -- a socialist and no friend of America. Addressing a group of 700 university researchers and business leaders in Montreal last month, Martin stated bluntly that terrorists have acquired WMDs from Saddam. “The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Huseein had, we don't know where they are…. [T]errorists have access to all of them,” the Canadian premier warned.

The tip of this terrorist sword was scarcely deflected on April 26th, when Jordanian intelligence broke up an al Qaeda conspiracy to detonate a large chemical device in the capital city of Amman. Directed by al Qaeda terrorist leader Abu al-Zarqawi -- the same man who personally beheaded American Nicholas Berg in Iraq last month -- the plotters sought to use a massive explosion to spread a “toxic cloud”, meant to wipe out the U.S. embassy, the Jordanian prime minister's office, the Jordanian intelligence headquarters, and at least 20,000 civilians (by contrast, only 3,000 died on 9/11). Over twenty tons of chemical weapons were seized from the conspirators, who were just days away from carrying out their plot.

One wonders where CNN and USA Today think twenty tons of nerve gas and sarin came from: Chemical Weapons-Mart? Yet their coverage, like most major media outlets, mentioned not a word about Saddam's smuggled WMDs, which -- according to liberal dogma -- “don't exist.”

Even though the UN says they do exist, now spread around the world.

It's not just the UN. Bill Clinton says they exist, even after the war: in a July 2003 interview with Larry King, the ex-president uncharacteristically defended George Bush, saying “it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there [was]…a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for” in Iraq. Every intelligence agency in the world -- French, British, German, Russian, Czech, you name it -- agreed before the war; Jordanian intelligence can certainly confirm their opinion today.

So what's the deal? Why the relentless pretence that “Bush lied” when even the UN and Bill Clinton say he didn't? Why the absolute silence about “inconvenient” parts of various UN reports, such as the discovery of chemical and biological weapons plans, recipes and equipment; of bio-weapons agents in an Iraqi scientist's house; of a prison lab for testing bio weapons on humans; of complexes for manufacturing fuel for prohibited long-range missiles; of artillery rounds containing enough sarin to kill thousands of people, of similar shells containing mustard gas, two (but far from the only) of which were used in a terrorist attack against U.S. forces just weeks ago?

America cannot afford the answer to this “why”: that many on the left consider George W. Bush's defeat more urgent than al Qaeda's, his political death more essential than the possible physical death of millions of Americans.

The character of our foreign enemies has never been in doubt. The character of the enemy within -- from Dan Rather to Michael Moore -- has never been clearer. And the stakes are the highest they've ever been.

Rod D. Martin is Founder and Chairman of Vanguard PAC. A former policy director to Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Special Counsel to PayPal.com Founder Peter Thiel, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Council for National Policy, a Vice President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), and author of the forthcoming Visions of America.


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; baath; bill; clinton; destruction; holland; hussein; iraq; jordan; major; mass; media; nuclear; paulmartin; perricos; saddam; saddamhussein; syria; terrorism; turkey; un; unmovic; war; weapons; wmd
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 201-202 next last
To: Veritas_est
Even though the UN says they do exist, now spread around the world.

This is truly frightening news.

41 posted on 06/24/2004 4:41:36 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Veritas_est

They can't cover it, it might bump the Abu Graib scandal off the front pages. It's only WMDs you know, it can only kill millions of people, it's not like it's something serious like pink panties on the head of a terrorist.


42 posted on 06/24/2004 5:36:34 AM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
None of this is new to those following the war, or to this administration.

WMDs are a fact of the modern day, with high speed communications, transportation, internet banking, encryption technology all making it rather simple for any serious thug, pirate, thief, evildoer to obtain WMDs, recruit, plot and plan and pull off mass murder.

Our borders will never be fully sealed - it's impossible. It's simple to carry enough to kill many in a small vial, or bomb, and the ACLU and their allies in control of our major info-entertainment-education providers, still misleading the world even post-911, would thwart any attempts to control our borders which require us to actually look closely at individuals, threaten their personal liberties.

It would be a guaranteed win for Kerry this fall, and an end to America, even this America where we are still free to worship, speek, assemble, vote, criticize the government, and where, for almost 3 years, in spite of being the #1 target of the enemy (after Israel), the 'hapless' folks at Homeland Security have prevented ALL attacks on our home soil (we could probably all benefit from hearing the number of attacks thwarted by those charged to defend us).

We need to be as prepared and vigilant as possible, but the only real solution is changing hearts and minds, exposing the enemy, speaking up for the truth. The only real solution is Christ- to protect and guide and strengthen our wills and actions, to pray and hope those who see see...and we need to expose the lies and real cruel history of the enemy, instead of wasting our time and resources investigating and attacking our ALLIEs daily, emboldening the enemy.

The enemy seeks to divide and conquer.

Of course there are, and always will be, things we can do better - and should and do seek them - but this country can't handle the truth, yet. Still don't know the nature of the enemy, or the courage of those working hard to defend us, and our homefront today - with little help, and much critism, from their countrymen.

43 posted on 06/24/2004 5:39:13 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian

So you are saying leave the weapons with the Puppet Master of Terrorism rather than the Puppets. Brilliant.


44 posted on 06/24/2004 5:43:20 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
45 posted on 06/24/2004 5:44:51 AM PDT by SJackson (They're not Americans. They're just journalists, Col George Connell, USMC)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Veritas_est

They did it so quickly because the Democrats were sending people to help them.


46 posted on 06/24/2004 5:46:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Taxman; Warrior Nurse

WMD Ping!


47 posted on 06/24/2004 5:48:20 AM PDT by Chieftain (To all who serve and support those who serve - thank you!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ragtime Cowgirl; conshack; Veritas_est; xzins
Our borders will never be fully sealed - it's impossible.

Yes... and for that matter, no "Sealed Vaccuum" in any Laboratory in the physical Universe is truly a "completely closed system".

So what?

Re-deploy 4 divisions of Regular Army and National Guardsmen home (from "Allies" who don't want them anyway) and station them along the Borders... and spend on Border Control and Port Inspection even half of the $90 Billion we're gonna spend "rebuilding Iraq" (a country which can rebuild itself -- by selling me gasoline!!)...

And our Ports and Borders will be as water-tight as a Duck's butt.

best, OP

48 posted on 06/24/2004 5:52:25 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Veritas_est

bump


49 posted on 06/24/2004 5:55:19 AM PDT by feedback doctor (Libereral at hatriotic towards America and freedom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Veritas_est

BUMP!!!!


50 posted on 06/24/2004 5:58:37 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RaceBannon

More info. to add to your list.


51 posted on 06/24/2004 5:58:39 AM PDT by StarFan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Mudcat

The link doesn't work anymore, BTW..........


52 posted on 06/24/2004 5:59:29 AM PDT by combat_boots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
I support the sentiment of what you say about Hussein and WMD, and agree whole-heartedly about the lack of seriousness of controlling our borders, but I respectfully disagree as to the efficacy of the conventional war.

Hussein was a paranoid recluse with numerous doubles and deception programs in place to prevent assasination, so the liklihood of being able to get to him was very slim. Besides, you then have the sons and numerous cousins, henchmen, etc. You'd have to have dozens of targets all hit quickly, then you still have to go in and get the WMD because, if not, they would still be up for grabs like they seem to be now. There are those (Kerry, Waxman, Kennedy, etc.) who will spin this by saying that Bush has further endangered the world by "allowing" the WMD to be dispersed, but, anyone who thinks Hussein was making them as a hobby or had no intention of not selling and/or distributing them to outsiders is simply fooling themselves.

So, if we did not invade, the WMD programs would still be operational and another year more advanced. The products would still be sold to al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, other countries, etc. The Bush-haters like to say that Hussein would not sell his WMD to bin Laden because he would then have his "fingerprints" on whatever attacks came as a result, but that is naive because he knows his fingerprints have already been found on the first World Trade Center attack and the attempt on former-President George H.W. Bush's life during a trip to Kuwait. This argument is just as flimsy as saying the secularist Hussein and Islamacist bin Laden would never collaborate.

The war was not a perfect option for getting rid of the WMD, but it was about the only one, given the corruption of the U.N., France, Germany, and Russia, the unseriousness of the Democrats in dealing with the problem, and the reckless, oppressive, and paranoid nature of the Hussein regime.

53 posted on 06/24/2004 6:00:58 AM PDT by HenryLeeII (God blessed America when He gave us Ronald Reagan!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Veritas_est

Like anything else that justifies the Bush administration's actions, this will be spiked or buried.

The enemy fifth column is hard at work in the form of our own media.


54 posted on 06/24/2004 6:04:11 AM PDT by JimRed (Fight election fraud! Volunteer as a local poll watcher, challenger or district official.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ovrtaxt

I have been trying to get people to look at another way evidence might be distorted..........Please see http://www.ci-ce-ct.com/Feature%20articles/02-12-2002.asp and read up on taqiyya if you haven't already. It compliments physical deception perfectly. In fact do a google search.


55 posted on 06/24/2004 6:05:35 AM PDT by combat_boots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: justshutupandtakeit; xzins
So you are saying leave the weapons with the Puppet Master of Terrorism rather than the Puppets. Brilliant.

Nope.

Somehow -- you managed to both invert what I said, AND invert the whole Focus of the Article, all in a single, apparently-dyslexic Posting!!

Impressive. Quite. Indeed.

Lemme help you through this, kindergartener (I'll use "puppets", since you seem to understand the medium).

AHEM: The ARTICLE says that the mangy "Puppets" in Iraq no longer have the "Big Bad Nasties", because the "Puppet Master" decided to Export the "Big Bad Nasties" all over the world as soon as he figured out that his strings were about to be cut.

I SUGGESTED (as I have suggested on this Forum... for years) that while Colin Powell was stalling the UN, Dubya Bush could have rescinded "Falling Down Ford"s Executive Order 12333 concerning Assassination (it's an E.O., any President can rescind the Order) and given the Boys in Black a chance to hone their wet-work skills on one Saddam Hussein and his Boyz.

And, if Assassination didn't work... we could always go to war anyway, of course.

Assassination of an Aggressive Enemy Tyrant is, compared to outright War, simply the morally-preferable Option for the Christian Ethicist (See the example of Ehud, Judges 3:15-26; no "collateral damage", just one dead "Terrorist Puppet Master") -- and should be attempted first.

That's all I'm saying.

NOW do you understand, Moppet?

best, op

56 posted on 06/24/2004 6:16:53 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Steel Wolf
The Syrian government is a secular, Baathist organization that only exports jihad. They don't inhale.

And that is a reason to ignore them because? Nobody really cares if they want to kill their own people, it is precisely the exporting that is the problem.

And I agree, NK and Iran are really nasty and need to be taken out. Unless US military doctrine has advanced to the point where we could take them out with as few casualties as in Iraq, forget about it. People would never support it. We will just have a take a massive hit first.

57 posted on 06/24/2004 6:29:20 AM PDT by hopespringseternal (People should be banned for sophistry.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Diogenesis
Nice summary. Thanks for passing it on to the rest of us. What is your source?

That picture is particularly good. Why haven't we seen this before (I know why it wasn't on CNN, but how about NewsMax or FOXNews?)?

A general question for all on this thread: the only other place I have heard the "before, during, and after the war" language was in a World Herald (or something like that) article that did not match what was written in the published UN reports. Does this derive from that or is it an independent account of some oral report by a UN official?
58 posted on 06/24/2004 6:31:10 AM PDT by Law is not justice but process
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: HenryLeeII
I support the sentiment of what you say about Hussein and WMD, and agree whole-heartedly about the lack of seriousness of controlling our borders, but I respectfully disagree as to the efficacy of the conventional war. Hussein was a paranoid recluse with numerous doubles and deception programs in place to prevent assasination, so the liklihood of being able to get to him was very slim.

Most of these tales of "numerous doubles and deception programs in place" have since been disproved. The fact is, once the War began, the US Air Force had Hussein in their targets and bombed his luncheon deli appointment almost immediately after the Order was Given.

Yes, the Fly-boys missed him -- by maybe ten minutes. If that.

But the point is, the Target was acquired and an attempted Elimination prosecuted almost immediately after the War began.

What happened to all the alleged "Doubles", then?
Guess we knew whom we were aiming for, all along.

What if we had "given the order", on an Assassination basis, six months before?

Besides, you then have the sons and numerous cousins, henchmen, etc.

Kill them too. Facing a Level of Magnitude less security, in each case.

You'd have to have dozens of targets all hit quickly,

No, you don't. All you have to do is create Chaos at the Top.

What happens when you create Chaos at the Top of a Totalitarian Dictatorship? (Hint: it's not "Export the WMD's worldwide". Every player in the destabilized Regime is looking for his own Ace Card -- not trying to go out in a "blaze of glory", ala Saddam or Hitler)

then you still have to go in and get the WMD because, if not, they would still be up for grabs like they seem to be now.

No, the domestic destabilization of the Iraqi Regime would've created an incentive for rival claimants to secure control of Iraqi WMD's under their own banner, within Iraq.

It seems pretty obvious to me, but even if you think I'm wrong: what's the worst case scenario? Total Export of All Iraqi WMD's to Terrorist Organizations Worldwide? That's what happened anyway, according to this UN report.

59 posted on 06/24/2004 6:33:57 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
I'm continually amazed by political strategy.

It's become evident that the WMDs do exist and that iraqi ties to al qaeda did extensively exist (I can make a good case from a variety of links that there was a definite Saddam/Al Qaeda link, and I can make a reasonable case for a Saddam/binLaden link.) This corners the opposition in terms of their prior claims, but it opens the brilliant strategy of claiming that (1) Under Clinton they were contained in Iraq, and (2)The war (Pres. Bush) has CAUSED their proliferation.

I am impressed, and it will be an effective strategy to some degree.

The response: Pretend to be the President making a risk assessment-

1. Damned if I do and damned if I don't. I do nothing and they get handed off to terrorists. I start a war and they get hidden and channeled to terrorists. In either case they get into the hands of terrorists.

2. Major Advantage of War: I get to kill the body that's supporting the head. With the supporters of terrorism gone, then the likelihood of their following through with significant attacks launched from an entire world that's hostile territory is far less than from the confines of host terrorist nations.

The above is a reasonable evaluation, imo, of a proper response to the charge that the war caused the proliferation.

The problem right now is HUGE. They have stopped the war on terror in order to rebuild Iraq. Perhaps Iraq should eventually be rebuilt, but only after all the terrorist host nations are gone. They are not.

We MUST:

1. Conquer Syria. Period...there is no other answer.
2. Conquer Iran. Their nuclear program and their harboring of terrorists for years (they are actually the MAJOR terrorist nation....not Iraq) makes them a necessary conquest.
3. Overthrow Saudi.
4. Defeat Musharraff's enemies in Pakistan in detail, and then turn against any mountain taliban/al qaeda.
5. Fully support Putin in the muslim provinces of the former soviet -- Chechnya, Khazastan, etc.
6. Same #4 in Philippines and Indonesia.

When the war is done, then we can turn back to some level of "rebuilding" stage. To the extent that we rebuild the capacity for trade we help ourselves. That same logic entailed with Europe after WWII.

60 posted on 06/24/2004 6:34:13 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 201-202 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson