Posted on 07/11/2004 8:31:23 AM PDT by The Wizard
One of the host of the John Batchlor ABC radio show just announced that there appears to be a report coming from Libya in Septmenmber that Saddam's WMD did exist and were being developed there, and that's why they weren't found in Iraq....
This may not come out until after the election. I have been following it for some time and it is mostly credible! It hinges on Brit intel as does the Niger yellowcake. Bush receives Brit intel but cannot, by an agreement from the FDR era, share it with congress. (That was why the WH said that they shouldn't have included the "16 words" in the SOTU speech--not that the intle was wrong.)
Loftus said that if Bush/Rove bring it out just before the election it could backfire.
I hope and pray this is true. I have NEVER doubted there were WMDs.
Wow! That is some article from 1999!!!
Do you have a link I can use for a file I'm starting on this matter?
Do you think it should come out before the election?
What is this FDR era agreement? Color me curious and fascinated by this story.
Putin's announcement a couple weeks ago got little play because it supported the Administration.
This Libyan report were probably receive similar mention, then drop to page 99.
I think very few people know about this story...even most Freepers have not heard about it before.
The issue of WMD is one I've paid close attention to and without another freeper alerting me to this matter last week, I'd have known none of this.
Thank you so much!
I'm starting a Libya/Iraq WMD file right now.
Talk about outsourcing...
Seriesly.
bttt. Let's keep this thread going.
...this kind of explains why Kadaffy is suddenly playing nice- he saw what happened to his buddy Sodamn Hinsane
Smelled like nothing so much as: Saddam laundering his WMD through Qaddafi, who would of course love to get the "credit" for "giving them up".
If this is true why wasn't it in the Senate inquiry on pre-war intelligence? Just wondering?
Will this be a September suprise? Seriesly?
Because Senators are idiots. Because they aren't to be trusted with certain kinds of intelligence as their leaks in previous years have proven. And until the story is nailed down, airtight, Senators won't be allowed to view the intelligence.
It should come out as soon as possible. I don't understand the delay.
During WWII it was necessary that Churchill and FDR have the best intel without leaks. Military intel was leaky, especially Brit colonial military intel which was sympathetic to Hitler! Many in the US gov were pro Stalin etc. Hence the establishment of OSS here which of course later became the CIA under congressional oversight. I wish I had more details on how the FDR agreement, a loophole in the constitution, survived.
Qad-daffy is not making himself popular with OBL. All the terrorists must have worn out their welcome very badly in Libya. Never ending parties at Mo-mar's tent, leaving the seat up, eating up all the Doritos, leaving half eaten pizza in the frig.
Or maybe Libya is a red state?
Ping to a report from FNC that Libya had Iraq's WMD program and a report is due in September.
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