Posted on 08/07/2004 9:24:43 PM PDT by ncdave4life
The trigger for Gadhafi to come clean was the liberation of Iraq from Saddam's regime, in addition to intercepting illegal WMD equipment shipments to Libya.
BTW, we were also surprised by Iraq & didn't find out because of our intel. We only found out about their old programs, cuz of the attempted defection of Hussein Kamel Hussein back in the 95. Still, Billy Jeff didn't take action on the info til he needed a distration. I think he would have been more than happy to keep inspectors there forever & the "spin", history rewrite was inspectors getting kicked out, when they actally left when they were informed that we were about to take unilateral, no Congressional vote, no running it past the UN military action there.
Indyk is deceptive in his analysis and false in his conclusion. Years of fruitless negotiation with Libya were suddenly successful only after the taking of Baghdad and Saddam's capture. Kenneth Timmerman has the details.
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/03/30/World/How-George.W.Bush.Got.Qaddafis.Attention-632702.shtml
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