The huge line of vehicles stretching across Western Iraq headed into Syria during the 3 weeks before we went in was a really big clue.
I recall on FR back then that everyone was screaming this. It was mind-bogglingly obvious. They weren't all limousines.
But none of our "crack" reporters from right here in the cradle of liberty saw fit to investigate further. Just another unsubstantiated rumor.
Exactly: EVERY foreign intelligence service KNOWS that Hussein had WMDs... only question was where???
I, and many others, based on information from often-reliable sources, stated over and over: SYRIA.
I have continued over the years to say SYRIA when I’ve gotten into discussions with libidiots. If this report actually comes out and serves to verify that Syria had WMDs at this site, I am going to have to go back to several dozen people and do some MAJOR CROWING! If it doesn’t, I’ll still believe that to be the case, but ...
Please let this be true!!!
“Anyone with eyes knew this back then.
The huge line of vehicles stretching across Western Iraq headed into Syria during the 3 weeks before we went in was a really big clue.”
I’m skeptical. All those people with eyes, but no-one brought a camera and virtually no imagery that we know of. Sure it’s been claimed that the imagery hasn’t been released because we had bigger concerns with the Russians or because we didn’t want the “no WMD” fiction to be exposed, enabling the insurgency to use it. But everything imaginable has been claimed. Research the hundreds of stories, and 99% are just snowballing an original or two that had multiple credibility problems.
I suspect the truth is in the middle, some valuable WMD materials, tools and documents were moved, but not the convoys of semi-trucks and fleets of cargo ships worth. WMD was more fiction than fact, but a lie perpetrated by Saddam, not by us. The most we were guilty of is not recognizing it, that an not making it more clear that there there were a half dozen good reasons to remove Saddam despite his crippled WMD program.