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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I am impressed though by your mastery of all the mindless progressive talking points... "guarantee"... "nation building"... "crap"... "enlightened despotism", the usual wannabe eloquent empty phrases, conveying a psychological tick and void of any real information.
8:21 was the time of the phone call from the flight attendant. The air traffic control signal went dead and the plane stopped following orders at 8:13. The second plane didn't hit the WTC until 9:03 AM. That's 50 minutes. Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at times published as between 9:37 and 9:43. That's 90 minutes. Flight 93 crashed at 10:06 AM. That's just 7 minutes short of 2 hours.
Or is your drinking just sporadic
There was 1 hour and 53 minutes between the first notification that flight 11 was off course and not responding and the time that flight 93 crashed.
For that matter, what is your official source to back up your statement that fighters are scrambled within 5-10 minutes of a hijacking (prior to 9/11)?
A former Pentagon air traffic controller says "All those years ago when I was at the Pentagon, this wouldn't have happened. ATC Radar images were (and are) available in the understructures of the Pentagon, and any commercial flight within 300 miles of D. C. that made an abrupt course change toward Washington, or turned off their transponder and refused to communicate with ATC, would have been intercepted at supersonic speeds within minutes by fighters out of Andrews AFB. Why there were no fighters from Andrews AFB up baffles me. If we could get fighters notified, scrambled, and airborne within about 6 minutes from Andrews AFB then, we could now."Before the attacks, the protocols had been relaxed during the Clinton administration.
I'm happy to place the blame on the Clinton administration. But the fact is that one way or another our defense was not ready to defend us when an actual attack occurred.
AGAIN, I ask you, were those two F-16's on afterburner that I saw peeling overhead that morning at about 9:20am just a figment of my imagination? I will answer it for you.
I already posted answers to that question twice.
Shouldn't there have been a plan for that contingency already in place? And what evidence do you have that there isn't such a plan in place? And maybe it was even put into action. One would hope that our national defense forces would have considered this possibility, since even the Columbine killers had thought of the same plan, hijack a plane and crash it into NYC.
Thanks for the confirmation, nut case. Ted Kazynski thought he was too smart for the rest of us to understand him too. Where is he now? The booby hatch? Delusional twit!
Tell me your politically acceptable plan to prevent the next really big terrorist attack.
Please bear in mind that preventive measures are generally known to the public, and terrorists will know them and attempt to plan around them. They might even take advantage of your policies and past behavior.
So knock yourself out. Predict the future.
With unanswerable arguments like those, I will have to give up and admit defeat. How could I have ever hoped to match my puny wits against erudition of this magnitude?
OK Max I have to ask... How do you know there is no evidence connecting Hussein to 911? If you can give a credible answer I'll be impressed, if not your statement is nothing but pure innuendo.
... According to the official story, at least, they did absolutely zero to protect us from the 4 hijacked planes...
So what is the official story? Do you have one?
LOL
I absolutly agree that, under Clinton, the defense of the contenental USA, and our overall defense ability (from civilian defense capability to miitary) was gutted to the point we could not function. This, combined with our lack of decisive response to multiple terrorist attacks during the same administration and several other cultural and societal factors lead to the US becomming an underdefended target as well as a high visibility one.
I will say there have been vast improvements in the past couple of years. Unfortunatly, it usually takes a 9-11 or Pearl Harbor type event to wake people up to the fact the world has evil people in it. We have made great strides with little negative impact to the economy and civilian life in the US. In WWII, we had to impose rationing and force ourselves to improve our industry and infrastructure quickly. We now have several layers of defensive preparations in place. Are they inpregnable? Absolutly not. We have to be right 100% of the time, but the terrorists only have to be right once. But we are doing everything we can, under the law, to prevent them from being right that one time. Is there more work to be done? Absolutly! And we have to keep improving, but that improvment becomes unfeasable when it starts encroaching on American civilians. The goal then becomes how to improve our defense without upsetting the American People. Unfortunatly, this will probably only effectivly happen when a hole in our defenses in exploited.
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