Posted on 12/09/2012 6:05:39 PM PST by smoothsailing
December 9, 2012
by Daniel Greenfield
Probably one of the most despicable lies perpetrated by the Democratic Party was the claim that Saddam Hussein had no WMDs. It was a lie of political convenience by a party whose top politicians had asserted the exact opposite until it became more convenient for them to jump on a new bandwagon.
After all that there would be a certain historical irony if Saddam’s WMDs were indeed finally found, but by Islamist terrorists into whose hands they fell after almost a decade of liberal political malfeasance culminating in their irresponsible support for the Sunni side in the Syrian Civil War.
Let’s map what that would look like
1. The Democrats sabotaged the Iraq War by preventing any enforcement action against the Syrian origin of the suicide bombers and terror squads in the early days of the post-war period. Meanwhile Syrian WMDs had been smuggled into Syria.
2. The Democrats took power and then backed an Arab Spring that put Syria into the crosshairs of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, exposing the WMDs to those terrorists.
3. Either the terrorists get their hands on the WMDs, in which case the likelihood of them being used on the US or Israel is very high.
4. Alternatively Syria turns them over to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard which ships them to Iran.
But back to the story…
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.
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.
There were 56 flights disguised as a relief effort after a 2002 Syrian dam collapse.
There were also truck convoys into Syria. Sada’s comments came more than a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.”
Just to add to the general cheerful tidings, there are claims, unverified, that some WMDs were transferred to Hezbollah.
Facilitating the glorious 'arab spring' no doubt. Someone should have warned Gaddafi to be careful who he shook hands with.
Yes, already have.
Many, if not most Dems, claimed there were WMDs. Levin, Clinton, Feinstein, Daschle, Thurmond, Kerry, Pelosi, etc.
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California) Statement on US Led Military Strike Against Iraq December 16, 1998 http://www.house.gov/pelosi/priraq1.htm
"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.
If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff February 17, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/
And, meanwhile here at home Schumer, Feistein, et. al. do not want me to have a .38. How bizarre is the world gonna get?
My son and his squad/company captured buildings full of Soviet arms on the eastern side of the Euphrates River after they (units of the 3rd ID) successfully launched a combined amphibious and tank assault on the Iraqi Republican Guard that remained after several days of a shellacking by the 3rd ID.
He and his squad captured scores of Iraqi regulars plus many more who surrendered to them voluntarily. Then they found buildings filled to the ceiling with weapons and supplies, INCLUDING FRESH, GREEN CHEMICAL WARFARE SUITS.
This information was turned over to the company commander.
You don’t need chemical warfare suits if you don’t have chemical weapons because the Iraqis knew that the US wasn’t going to use any other than maybe tear gas.
I hope more on what was captured from the Iraqis comes out in the future. The captured 50 lbs of cyanide in a glass jar was interesting. It wasn’t there to kill rats. I’ve seen pictures of this item.
There were also precursor chemicals needed to make deadly chemical weapons, as well as plans for nuclear weapons.
It would be nice to have a congressional investigation-hearing that addressed all these issues in an honest and open way, but that will have to wait until a Republican administration wins and starts to give us the truth about a lot of things.
Meanwhile, it’s Coverup City with the Obamanation regine.
THERE WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
That’s what our government and MSM told us.......right?
Even more despicable was the Republican party that caved in to the democRat lie and refused to defend itself with the truth.
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The 64 trillion dollar question. Wish I knew.
Best guess is there will be few to no places to
avoid what is coming. I really want to be upbeat
but after careful assessment am simply waiting
for the next shoe to drop. A prayer am wrong.
H/t Tigerseye
I just don’t get why Pres. Bush didn’t reveal some of those finds. It would have been very easy to do and impossible to refute. He allowed the Dems and the MSM to walk all over him and it has had seriously detrimental consequences for the country as a whole.
Ironic, but you can see it coming. The next Bin Laden will release Sarin he got from AQ who got it from the US but it was actually Syrian and didn’t exist because it came from Iraq. It will kill lots of folks who work for the NY Times. Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Yes, Gadaffi thought he was shaking hands with the typical “American” president. There really is very little about Obama that is American.It cost Gadaffi his life.
Our traditional allies have grown to distrust Obama and it has put the USA in full international retreat on issues of allied security agreements. Former VP Dick Cheny held a news conference about that over the weekend, broadcast on Fox News on Sunday. The truth sent the left into paroxysms, frothing at the mouth.
Yes, most dems voted for war with Iraq on the basis
that there were WMDs in Iraq, but later after the Russians trucked them to Syria, they all changed their minds and said there were none. Its quite laughable. Many Dems were likely informed back channel by the Russians that they had removed them, in order to try and stop the invasion of Iraq. But the Dems disbelieved the Russians, and then changed their minds when it suited the party line.
Even today , few Dems will admit that Bush liberated 56 million Iraqis, perhaps the high point of Bush Jr.s presidency. They are a foul bunch of little use to God, men or even the animals.
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