You know, I have all of JV's translation on my Blog. With each one I gave my own analysis, for what's it's worth.
But I haven't seen many contradictions.
I've take all of these translations and put them into a spreadsheet. I headed the columns...date translated, date of document, FreePURL, Harmony URL, and subject.
Now I can sort them by any of the above categories. Even with only about 17 do far, there's a pattern emerging.
This is preliminary so don't hold me to it, but it appears that for six months leading up to the invasion many other countries were getting involved with Iraq. One has Russia selling Saddam a bunch of ammuniton when a)there was supposed to be sanctions and who at the UN approved this sale under oil for food; and b)the Russians HAD to know that the weapons they were selling to Saddam would be used against American troops.
Also around that time we got French and German stuff going on, meetings with Saddam.
Around the invasion we've got some translations all involving chemical weapons of some sort.
See, this is how this thing is going to go down. They'll not be a smoking gun...okay one smoking gun, more on this later.
It's going to be a trend, a pattern that will emerge, clear and sharp. A pattern that logical people can deduce the truth.
Okay, my prediction on a smoking gun....I oughta charge you for this ;). I think it's possible that JV will find some document(S) that implicate some major politicos right here in America.
THAT will be a smoking gun. Probably something involving the French, the CIA, reaching right into the White House.
Absent this, an enticing thought, huh?...the truth will come out with the trend.
Just so y'all know I'm still on top of this.
Right, and I shouldn't have said "so many." The big contradiction is that we've got documents that talk about WMD and that they had WMD.
But the contradiction is the only story the AP reported on about the document release, which was the "poor Saddam" story about translated tapes where he and other senior officials were talking about how they had no WMD but the US didn't believe them.