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Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector
UK Telegraph ^ | 3/12/2005 | Francis Harris

Posted on 03/11/2005 6:36:52 PM PST by Stars&StripesNE

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To: HangThemHigh

"It is interesting to note he may have overestimated the UN, they took the bribes and said nothing, at least in time to do Saddam any good."


Surely Saddam knew that plenty of the Bluehelmeted Thugs would be glad to take hush money. I think you've given him WAY too much credit. He is Machiavellian, for sure. But no Clausewitz....or Annan.


41 posted on 03/11/2005 11:48:42 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: SDR

Nice to know that Blix and Ritter are honest men...they STAY bought, even after the purchaser is completely cashed out.


42 posted on 03/12/2005 12:51:21 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: cyncooper

I suspect that most of Saddam's players...all believed that Saddam did have secret programs...and they felt it was in the best interest of Iraq to keep them secret. Saddam kept telling them...almost daily...that he had programs. They must have believed it...although no one ever went to one of these programs or knew what was really going on in the govenrment.


43 posted on 03/12/2005 12:59:14 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Shermy; Southack; cyncooper; Miss Marple

Good catch Shermy.


44 posted on 03/12/2005 4:11:50 AM PST by Dog (FReepers-- - -- --- We are a battery of 80,000 bullsh*t-seeking missiles.)
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To: Dog
"Not Blix."

At least, not this time...

45 posted on 03/12/2005 5:53:55 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: SDR

I wonder if the sites ruled out by the UN were reinspected after the invasion...?


46 posted on 03/12/2005 6:06:04 AM PST by Solamente
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To: MizSterious

Saddam wanted to RESTART his weapons programs.

The Duelfer report outlines Saddam's rationale to keep pretending he had WMD when he didn't, in fact, have any stockpiles worth mentioning. In the middle of the Middle East, surrounded by enemies (inside and outside of Iraq), he still needed to be seen as a threat.

He kept his capability to produce WMD intact and he was just waiting for the right time and the end of the UN sanctions to restart them (I'm sure some of it would then have, let's say, "slipped" into some agent's or al-Qaeda's hands to be used in the US after that.)

Trying to buy off the weapons inspectors would be entirely consistent with that.

He did buy off Scott Ritter and Galloway and lots of other people through the oil-for-food program so this is not a surprise at all.


47 posted on 03/12/2005 6:11:24 AM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: SDR
SURE
There are no WMD so Sodom just give away $ 2M
a TRULY generous guy
But then Kennedy told us so from the beginning
48 posted on 03/12/2005 6:20:34 AM PST by 1903A3
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To: Dog
My answer was, 'That is not the way we do business in Sweden.' "

They were used to dealing with France.

49 posted on 03/12/2005 8:33:21 AM PST by RobFromGa (Bush Needs to Stay Aggressive in Term 2)
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To: SDR

Ritter's offer was $2 mil + all the teen girls he wanted.


50 posted on 03/12/2005 8:48:23 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
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To: Righty_McRight

"I would love to see Scott Ritter locked up in some Saudi jail. One can dream."

Send Ritter to Iraq and let them try him as a war criminal and an abettor to the $oddomite and his thugs.

That will be the start to ending this bs in the UN, in the MSM and from political liberals around the world. If they took money from an Islamofacist tryant to lie and make him look good, they are guilty of terrible crimes to the innocent people in that country.


51 posted on 03/12/2005 9:03:33 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: SDR
The bottom will drop out from under the U.N., U.S. Govt., and liberal media if we the little people ever find out just how many people were on Saddam's payroll. $21 billion skimmed from the oil-for-food program provides for a lot of bribe money. We know the top U.N. big guys got a piece of the action. There is no way in hell that France and Germany would be acting the way they are if they weren't well bribed. Bubba Klinton and the DemonRats in Congress were drafting war plans against Iraq in 1998 and they abruptly shelved their plans without a peep. It's pretty obvious they're dirty.

As usual, the liberals accuse their enemies of participating of the very games they're playing. They've claimed since day one that GW Bush was going to war for personal reasons and to get rich (can somebody tell me how Bush I got rich off Persian Gulf I?). The accusers are the worst offenders here.

52 posted on 03/12/2005 9:08:10 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Please leave a message after the burp....)
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To: JustDoItAlways
He did buy off Scott Ritter

Having that clearly proven remains real high on my "wish list"....can you imagine how the 'Rats would react??

53 posted on 03/12/2005 9:28:21 AM PST by ErnBatavia (ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
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To: AlGone2001

"This is big news, I think."

It's big news in our minds, but the tragedy is that it never will become "big news" in the MSM. They never said anything about those sarin gas shells or the 500 tons of uranium. They will purposefully ignore this as well.

This is what makes these people so dangerous.


54 posted on 03/12/2005 9:43:19 AM PST by Stellar Dendrite
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To: marty60
My question is, why would saddamn pay two mill to get a clean bill of health for weapons he didn't have?

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

That was my exact thought when I read the headline.

55 posted on 03/12/2005 10:00:53 AM PST by mwyounce
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To: MikeA
This won't get reported in the US media.

You are correct.

Only three publications reported the story (NY POST included), but take it a step further. Why does information such as this continue to be "weekend news"? As well, if the liberals were willing to permit Saddam to do his thing by simply turning their heads and pulling out soley as a result of weapons inspections, isn't it obvious why they are drawing the shades based on the "new" information? These people have adopted terrorists to love and to cherish, you, are the enemy.

56 posted on 03/12/2005 10:11:43 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection (www.whatyoucrave.com)
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To: Dog
Hans Blix?

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57 posted on 03/12/2005 10:24:29 AM PST by b4its2late (Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.)
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To: SDR

MOST interesting!


58 posted on 03/12/2005 10:26:16 AM PST by ohioWfan (The trumpet of freedom has been sounded, and that trumpet never calls retreat. (George W. Bush))
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To: marty60
Makes one wonder about the U.N. reports of NO WMD's huh

Who cares about the UN Reports - We have our own US Military reports which say they have found NO WMD's inside Iraq - Nor any residuals that would indicate any active WMD program -

What they did find was that Saddam had all the capabilities to start up a program for WMD's in somewhat of a short time period.

But it does not appear that he had any WMD up and running -

59 posted on 03/12/2005 10:26:27 AM PST by SevenMinusOne
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To: SDR

bump


60 posted on 03/12/2005 10:32:49 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("I I think she did too much coke...ahh you think so Doctor?)
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