Posted on 04/20/2004 5:23:18 PM PDT by Bayou City
Don't Be Surprised When Iraqi WMD Found
April 20, 2004
I don't know if you heard about this, because it has not been widely reported. Terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda were poised to detonate a chemical bomb in the heart of Amman, Jordan, that would have killed 20,000 people and contaminated a large area. King Abdullah praised Jordan's intelligence service for foiling a crime never before seen in the kingdom of Jordan. The target was a headquarters of the general intelligence department on a hill in Amman.
King Abdullah was to be in America to meet with President Bush, but decided not to come because of this threat. Where this story gets interesting is that King Abdullah of Jordan says that the vehicles carrying these explosives, the chemical bomb, were smuggled over the border from neighboring Syria. Syria is denying this, but these are weapons of mass destruction.
Syria is a transit point for weapons of mass destruction. The whole subject of where are the weapons of mass destruction remains a focal point of mine. It remains an area of heightened curiosity, because I do not believe that they have been destroyed. I do not believe that Iraq never had them. I think Iraq had them. I think Iraq was working on them. I don't think the world's intelligence agencies are as woefully incompetent and bad and inept as the whole weapons of mass destruction issue would lead us to believe.
There are some things missing from buildings in Iraq, and there's too much speculation out there about how some of this stuff can be miniaturized and transported out of the country easily. Syria is an obvious place, and many people I respect have pointed to the Bekaa Valley as a place as well. We're not going to invade Syria any time soon to find out, but this is the second example of weapons of mass destruction-type coming out of Syria.
Now, they had to get to Syria somehow. I just want to keep your mind open to the possibility that these weapons of mass destruction from Iraq are somewhere, and they've not been destroyed. They haven't just vanished into the ether, and I'm going to make a prediction to you that all of the liberals and critics of the president who have harped on this and jumped on this have once again jumped the gun. They are a little premature here because we don't know yet what, if anything, did happen to those weapons of mass destruction, despite knowing that they did exist. So keep your hats on and don't be surprised down the road what is learned at some point.
Yellow cake uranium has been found at junk yards in Rotterdam and that's exactly what Iraq was looking for. This stuff could have been disbursed over the years to any number of places, and if you think that an Al-Qaeda related group is going to blow up Amman, Jordan with weapons that were procured from Syria, if you think that Al-Qaeda is not related to what all was going on in Iraq, and the Middle East, then you are engaged in blindness or wishful thinking. That is the position of the left, and that's why they can't be trusted to be placed in a leadership position.
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Please. Don't become a Raimondoite. You will marginalize yourself right off this forum.
Tell that to the liberal ninnies like my friends, who think that I'm naive for waiting before making sweeping statements like, "There never were any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
Wait a second. Isn't our national defense system supposed to be able to scramble a plane within 5 - 10 minutes anytime a plane is hijacked for any reason? Shouldn't all 4 of those planes have had fighter escorts long before they reached their targets? We didn't need to know that it was Islamic fanatics on board. (But in fact we did. The airlines had the names available before they hit the WTC.) Just the fact that the planes were hijacked should have sent the system into action immediately. Where was our defense when we were actually under attack?
Guess they missed the pictures of thousands of women and children lying dead in the streets of towns Saddam wiped out by his poison gas attacks.
Your liberal friends are really uniformed.
That should have happened at 8:45 AM Eastern time on 9/12/01.
Uniformed? Or uninformed? Or both?
Their argument would be that it doesn't matter what Saddam "did" have, but that he doesn't/didn't as of the time of our invasion.
No, and no.
Just the fact that the planes were hijacked should have sent the system into action immediately. Where was our defense when we were actually under attack?
Nobody knew we were under "attack".
The Jersey Girls would love to have you on their side.
You'll be lonely over there, however, with their hysterics.
Calm down, and stop looking at 9/11 with 9/12 eyes.
If that's the case, then why didn't we go after Egypt and Saudi Arabia? All of the identified hijackers came from those 2 countries. Apparently they were harboring terrorists. But we didn't attack them. Instead we attacked Iraq which had nothing whatsoever to do with 911.
Now we have to stay so the Taliban does not come back and allow for the training of terrorists who will come and kill us. We have no choice.
So America is going to stay in Afghanistan forever, to make sure the Taliban doesn't return? Are we going to stay in every country of the world to make sure that terrorists never form anywhere?
They can pick who they choose but if they mess with us we have to deal with them in various ways appropriate to each situation. Just because we can't go after ALL the evil leaders in this world that are screwing up the world and screwing with us does not mean we can't go after SOME of them.
So how did we choose Iraq? They would be the least likely country in the Middle East if their support for Islamic fundamentalism and harboring of terrorists were the criteria we were using.
Just like the Soviet army.
To begin with, there was no protocol for the Air force to immediately scramble fighters in the event of a Civilian Aircraft hijacking. The only protocol in place at the time was that fighters give escort to Government transport aircraft like Air force One, etc...
There was also, no indication that terrorists were planning on crashing the aircraft into the Twin Towers. By the time the Air force was ordered to scramble, the towers were already hit and it was after the fact.
Lastly, here you go again trying to stir up your usual hyperbole, as if you have a need to go against the grain. In my Military years, we had a way of dealing with people like you. We called it a "blanket" party. Looks like you need one of those.......
Maxi has Democrat Disease. The Dems never did have the stomach to fight against slavery. Dems don't have compassion, that's why they favor allowing the brutality of abortion and against allowing the urban poor access to the opportunities in parochial schools.
That's more than one hour after the hijacking:
8:13:31 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 last transmission from Boston Air Traffic Control: AAL11 turn 20 degrees right American Airlines Flight 11 responds: 20 right AAL11.A few seconds later the Controller asks: AAL11 now climb maintain FL350 [35,000 feet] Controller: AAL11 climb maintain FL350 Controller: AAL11 Boston. There is no response from American Airlines Flight 11. 11) 8:14 to 8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 goes off course and is hijacked.
8:21 a.m.: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls Vanessa Minter at American Airlines reservations from the seatback phone. "She said two flight attendants had been stabbed, one was on oxygen," said the manager on duty. "A passenger had his throat slashed and looked dead and they had gotten into the cockpit." She identifies the seats of the hijackers and confirms that the plane is descending.
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