Posted on 12/09/2012 10:36:24 AM PST by raptor22
War On Terror: As the regime of Bashar Assad disintegrates, the security of his chemical arsenal is in jeopardy. The No. 2 general in Saddam Hussein's air force says they were the WMDs we didn't find in Iraq.
King Abdullah of neighboring Jordan warned that a disintegrating Syria on the verge of civil war puts Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons at risk of falling into the hands of al-Qaida.
"One of the worst-case scenarios as we are obviously trying to look for a political solution would be if some of those chemical stockpiles were to fall into unfriendly hands," he said.
The irony here is that the chemical weapons stockpile of Syrian thug Assad may in large part be the legacy of weapons moved from Hussein's Iraq into Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
If so, this may be the reason not much was found in the way of WMD by victorious U.S. forces in 2003.
In 2006, former Iraqi general Georges Sada, second in command of the Iraqi Air Force who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, wrote a comprehensive book, "Saddam's Secrets."
It details how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria in advance of the U.S.-led action to eliminate Hussein's WMD threat.
As Sada told the New York Sun, two Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, and special Republican Guard units loaded the planes with chemical weapons materials.
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Oh good! That's a relief. They wasted their time loading the WMD into their rockets.. the WMD does not exist. The joke is on them! The MSM employees will have the full story shortly.
Maybe this is why Bush has been so tranquil..he knew that Sadaam had these and he was not one to get bent out of shape by the MSM ( though that must have been hard on Bush and Cheney).
No sh*t Sherlock.
Some of the weapons were trucked into Syria from a railhead in Anbar Province. We followed the road to the Syrian border but did not violate Syrian airspace.
Some of the weapons were trucked into Syria from a railhead in Anbar Province. We followed the road to the Syrian border but did not violate Syrian airspace.
Sorry for the dbl post —stuck key
I seem to recall there was a NYT article about 2005 or so that stated there were more than 500 tons of yellowcake in Iraq.
I've always been amazed by the Left's apeing of that line.
Powell believed Iraq had WMD at the time, then was subsequently talked out of it by his Liberal sycophants like Wilkerson. Too cowardly to stick by his beliefs then, he now lacks the honor to admit that there were WMD.
why doesn’t he just join the Dems and get it over with.
Did I mention honor.
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