Posted on 02/21/2006 5:38:24 PM PST by kellynla
WMD: The quote above is that of a former UNSCOM member after translating and reviewing 12 hours of taped conversations between Saddam Hussein and his aides. So what's on the covers of Time and Newsweek?
Funny thing about dictators and tyrants: Very often they are meticulous record keepers. The fall of the Third Reich, the Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein's Iraq all produced treasure troves of information. In Iraq's case, there were so many documents and records that even now only a small fraction have been translated and analyzed.
Among them are 12 hours of conversations from the early 1990s through 2000 between Hussein and his top advisers. They reveal, among other things, how Iraq was working on an advanced method of enriching uranium, how Iraq was conspiring to deceive U.N. inspectors regarding weapons of mass destruction and how these weapons might be used against the U.S.
The tapes were officially presented Sunday by former FBI translator Bill Tierney to a private conference of former weapons inspectors and intelligence experts in Arlington, Va. Tierney is an Arabic speaker who worked in the mid-1990s for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the agency responsible for overseeing Iraq's disarmament.
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Al quaeda is already here. Bush will fight them overseas. Democrats will cut and run. The biggest threat to national security is if democrats get elected.
People should be grateful this isn't MY board. I'd post an Emergency Suspension Of All Threads For One Hour...except this one. LOL
I can't really put my finger on it, and I hate to use the word feel, but it feels weird. Bush waving the veto pen today gave me the feeling. Something's up. The stupid Rats are going to fall for it again whatever it is, that's certain.
This is a complete false premise. If the UAE company buys these ports....they will not be "secured" by Arabs. They will be secured by exactly the same people that are securing them now. Do you see "British" security officials at our ports now doing the majority of security? - Of course not.
Is it a mistake? Or does he want you to think it's a mistake? G_d only knows what they know. I'm thinking I should trust the Prez here. I'm not 100%, but I'm leaning that way.
Thanks for the heads up, good news indeed
You are completely wrong on the ports issue. You simply don't have a true understanding of the situation. As many currently don't.
You might check www.drudgereport.com. That's where I saw them for sale.
Who? I want their names! ;O)
A most excellent analysis, I agree 100% and share in your dismay. Politics is so poisoned, not just these days, but since the inception of Democracy. I just finished a biography of George Washington. Man did THAT guy ever have it tough, and from no less than Thomas Jefferson. More of the same, its just the names that change..
Tierney is being discredited right now.
William Tierney, the former United Nations weapons inspector who unveiled the so-called "Saddam Tapes" at a conference in Arlington, Virginia, Saturday, told National Review Online that God directed him to weapons sites in Iraq and that his belief in the importance of one particular site was strengthened when a friend told him that she had a vision of the site in a dream.
Among them are 12 hours of conversations from the early 1990s through 2000 between Hussein and his top advisers. They reveal, among other things, how Iraq was working on an advanced method of enriching uranium, how Iraq was conspiring to deceive U.N. inspectors regarding weapons of mass destruction and how these weapons might be used against the U.S.
I googled "Russians helping Saddam" a few months ago...and there is post after post of "openly" reported stories of how the Russians were helping Saddam in the lead up to this war. The fact that Putin didn't care that others thought they were helping Saddam with GPS/Anti-aircraft material tells me that this was a disinformation campaign from the beginning.
They couldn't hide the fact that Russians soldiers were flooding Iraq pior to the war...dressed in civies. In fact, if you recall, there was shootout of US soldiers with a convoy of Russians as they fled the country when the war started. Just like the so-called French contractors, these people were all there to destroy or move the evidence that tied them to Saddam's WMD program. And as touchy a situation this may with the WOT, this needs to finally be exposed to clear this country's good name. Hell, the Russians are doing the same thing to Iran that they did with Saddam.
Only the willfully blind don't think that Hussein had and sought WMD. Only question remianing is where his CB stockpile went and if it will be used on us, as in US.
[...JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT FACTS...]
Well, I'm people and I not only care about facts, I care about truth.
Somehow I think Bush is believing in us out here in the blogosphere.
We are the millenium newsies. Look how fast Harriet Meiers fell apart.
If I had my tinfoil hat on, I'd say she was a trial balloon for Bush
to see how "tuned in" the base really is. Fear not. God is in control.
You should have been included in my post #56. Sorry.
I'll be back tonight. Have a rehearsal. Promise to read every post.
fingers crossed).
Jo
I had no doubt Saddam had WMD
I'm thrilled to see it in print andd from a GOOD publication.
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