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‘I found Saddam’s WMD bunkers’
Melanie Phillips.com ^ | April 19, 2007 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 04/19/2007 3:13:26 AM PDT by aculeus

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To: aculeus

“The location in Syria of this material, he says, is also known to these intelligence agencies.”

Oh?


41 posted on 04/19/2007 6:10:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: aculeus
The Republicans won’t touch this because it would reveal the incompetence of the Bush administration in failing to neutralise the danger of Iraqi WMD . The Democrats won’t touch it because it would show President Bush was right to invade Iraq in the first place. It is an axis of embarrassment.

Friggin' partisan politics will be the end of us yet.
42 posted on 04/19/2007 6:12:29 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: aculeus

I attended a small lecture in 2004 given by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons. He said that he had toured a facility in Iraq that was identical to the Pantex facility (the US nuclear weapons fabrication facility outside Amarillo, TX). The only thing they couldn’t find was the uranium/plutonium.


43 posted on 04/19/2007 6:12:34 AM PDT by Flightdeck
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To: aculeus

One more thing: They also interviewed Iraqis whose job it was to take the white-collar workers in that facility out into the desert and shoot them.


44 posted on 04/19/2007 6:13:23 AM PDT by Flightdeck
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To: aculeus

the source
http://www.davegaubatz.com/


45 posted on 04/19/2007 6:21:37 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: sirchtruth

Sounds like a job for . . .WHORALDO!


46 posted on 04/19/2007 6:22:24 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we loose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: aculeus
Thanks for link.

[. . .But when it comes to Iraq, the western media behave collectively out of character. There is no openness to any facts that challenge the ‘line’. There is a mindset, so powerful as to amount to a kind of collective brainwashing, that it is been ‘proved’ that there were no WMD in Saddam’s Iraq. Any claim to the contrary, however authoritative or persuasive, is therefore brushed aside.

Even the brief public appearance on an official US website of the Saddam tape transcripts referred to in the memorandum above — in one of which Saddam could be heard talking in 2002-2003 about his ongoing nuclear programme — was referred to only in passing by the New York Times in a report whose incoherence managed to bury this explosive revelation altogether.

The docile US media, dependent as it is on government sources and handouts, is all too easily intimidated or bought off by pressure from a myriad different sources which all have their own conflicting reasons to suppress such politically damaging revelations.

Too many important reputations in the media now rest on the ruthless suppression of the faintest possibility that they might have been wrong.]

Meantime, made me ill seeing O'Reilly talk with 'Whoopi' last week, offering a 'line' all too familiar to him. . .that ok. . ."you were right". . .about WMD's and GB's 'mistake' but now. . .blah/blah. . .

Think Hannity the 'same'. . .and Rush offers he does not care 'who' was right. . .but only how we move forward. And, could be he is well aware of the 'catch 22' that exists for both sides here; or maybe not; but I think it important for 'truth' to be the starting point. . .particularly because of the idiology attached to the synthetic version; and more importantly; many in America need to be reawakened to these 'outcome based strategies'. . .

Think 'out here'. . .we had better start e-mailing with info and expectations. . .

47 posted on 04/19/2007 6:24:39 AM PDT by cricket (If you want to lose a mile; give a Lib an inch. . .)
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To: aculeus

Ask yourself, who benefits if there is no record of WMDs in Iraq? Then you’ll be close to the answer as to how any trace of them disappears.


48 posted on 04/19/2007 6:30:43 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: 70th Division

“Sounds like a job for . . .WHORALDO!”

He can do a special on the opening of Saddam Hussein’s secret bunkers. :)


49 posted on 04/19/2007 6:32:28 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: Shots

There is a shadow government working within this administration to thwart exposure.

Joe Wilson lied. Joe Wilson was selected by his wife. Joe Wilson has publicly railed against policy ever since.

Bela Pelosi has gone to the Middle East to negotiate without the approval of the State Department.

The inmates are running the asylum.


50 posted on 04/19/2007 6:38:07 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: joseph20
Could it be that President Bush has made a very strategic decision to withhold information that would be incredibly damaging to the Russians and others?

Of course he did. The risk of the Russian nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of a nationalist, neo-Nazi government was deemed too great. Instead of one terrorist bomb, we might be facing 1,000 Zhirinovsky-controlled ICBMs. Bush took took the "no-WMD" political bullet to preserve Putin's government. And what's more, the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are well aware of it.

51 posted on 04/19/2007 6:42:27 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: aculeus

anyone that has real proof of wmd’s

should convey it to american liberals.

they believe “bush lied”,

and it’s their lie that carries the american public.


52 posted on 04/19/2007 6:43:45 AM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: cricket

We went to war with Saddam because he refused to step down and refused continuously to obey treaties.

He clearly was attempting to obtain WMD whether or not his scientists were deliberately throwing wrenches in his war machine, as some have claimed. We don’t look the other way when a convicted felon on parole attempts repeatedly to obtain prohibited weapons. Saddam had been “on parole” since the first Gulf War.

Saddam was also a state sponsor of international terrorism, even if there are no proven links to Al Qaeda. He funded the families of suicide bombers operating in Israel.

The proclaimed basis for the War on Terror was to put an end to state sponsoring/harboring of terrorism. Iraq was not the only guilty nation, but it was one that had the many violations already on record.

Consider if Saddam had remained in power and was playing the same aid, shelter, training, and arming of terrorist miltias that Iran and other nations are engaging in while we have a presence in Iraq.


53 posted on 04/19/2007 6:45:22 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: Dead Dog
I’d bet the administration never hear of his reports. The CIA and FBI are busing preparing for the second comming of Xlinton.

Better make sure the FBI files are alphabetized. Hillary can be one tough ****h if things aren't neat and orderly when handed to her.

54 posted on 04/19/2007 6:46:43 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: silverleaf

If the Dems look at Karl Rove’s harddrive it is OK because it is government property but if the Republicans look at Ted Kennedy’s network sharedrive it is “spying”.


55 posted on 04/19/2007 6:49:26 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: ken21

Dan Rather CLEARLY lied and the liberal retort is “fake but accurate”.


56 posted on 04/19/2007 6:50:25 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: wolfcreek
Why is this the first We’ve heard of this? Does Polosi know?

Does President Bush? The again, according to the article:

"The Republicans won’t touch this because it would reveal the incompetence of the Bush administration in failing to neutralise the danger of Iraqi WMD . The Democrats won’t touch it because it would show President Bush was right to invade Iraq in the first place. It is an axis of embarrassment."

57 posted on 04/19/2007 6:50:35 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: weegee

i’m tired of hearing and seeing liberals say “bush lied”.

if there’s proof of wmds,

then get it to the public.

clearly the 2006 u.s. congressional election would have benefited from such information.

the liberals now control the “undecideds” and middle of the roaders.


58 posted on 04/19/2007 6:54:19 AM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: aculeus

keeper bump


59 posted on 04/19/2007 7:08:17 AM PDT by Edgerunner (keep your powder dry...)
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To: ken21
if there’s proof of wmds, then get it to the public.

Quite frankly, I think both sides have a vested interest in keeping the lid on this one.

The Dems have too much vested in the "Bush lied" spin to back away from it now.

And one of the criticisms of Bush's plan to invade Iraq is that the WMDs could be scattered. That appears to have happened.

60 posted on 04/19/2007 7:11:05 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08/But Fred would also be great)
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