The Report That Nails Saddam

NY Times ^ | October 9, 2004 | DAVID BROOKS

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[milagro]

This in the NYT? Tonight is really a good night!!

[TheLurkerX]

Wow. Surprised the Times even printed that.

[Jim_Curtis]

So Saddam, the clever one, The Struggler, undertook a tactical retreat. He would destroy the weapons while preserving his capacities to make them later.

Can someone give me proof that Hussein destroyed his WMDs or am I supposed to make a wishful assumption on that?

[harpu]

This man [dabrooks] deserves some strokes for his candor while still employed at the NYSlime...

[Loyal Buckeye]

I haven't read the report. Does anyone know whether the $10 million SH paid to North Korea for missles and missle technology mentioned.

To me, that whole scenario was a major problem. Nukes would have been next.

[wagglebee]

Unbelievable editorial for the NY Slimes!
It's almost as if they're trying to bury the Poodle with this one.

[jimbokun]

I'm picturing some typical NYTimes readers doing a spit-take with their Saturday morning coffee when they see this in their beloved paper :).

[SuziQ]

I'm glad the President brought up the UN Oil for Food scandal tonight. It highlighted the mistake Kerry makes in thinking you can deal with these people in an honest fashion!

[mass55th]

"We can argue about what would have been the best way to depose Saddam, but this report makes it crystal clear that this insatiable tyrant needed to be deposed."

And had Saddam not survived to complete his dream, his two sons would have followed through with it.

[boycott]

ping

[Seaplaner]

"He would destroy the weapons while preserving his capacities to make them later."?

Nah, I don't think he destroyed a gram of his WMD. It's just my hunch, but I think that he derived too much power from having the stuff (and he had previous battle successes with it.) I think it's more likely that he would HIDE the weapons in Syria or just in the middle of the desert; and perhaps even terminate those who knew the locations.

Going after s. h. was courageous and necessary! And, we can thank President Dubya!

[Veto!]

David Brooks is the NYT token conservative columnist and a good one. He also appears as the conservative commentator on PBS's Nightly News with Jim Lehrer and always holds his end up well.

[rolling_stone]

Before we went into Iraq the persistence of the UN to do nothing gave rise to the speculation that some countries had a vested interest in the US not going into Iraq. That speculation has been proven in spades. The UN is as corrupt as can be and we should get the heck out of it.

[Mockingbird For Short]

Wow. How did Soros manage to let this slip by without censure? I'm speechless.

[neverdem]

How did Soros manage to let this slip by without censure?

What do you mean?

[Mockingbird For Short]

Seems like nothing is published, produced, or otherwise shown to the public without his veto power these days! Seems like his money is behind everything practically.

I read an interesting article yesterday by David Horowitz about the "Shadow" party of the left, controlled by Soros. Scary.

[neverdem]

I read an interesting article yesterday by David Horowitz about the "Shadow" party of the left, controlled by Soros. Scary.

The NY Times hired Brooks in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair affair. While the "paper of record" probably has common cause with Soros in defeating Bush, I don't see Soros exercising control over the youngest of their two right of center OpEd columnists, especially when Bill Safire, their other right of center OpEd columnist, can probably retire.

[zook]

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