"THE" Reason We Went Into Iraq

Inside Scoop - Fox News Channel ^ | Sunday, 5-23-2004 | Eric Shawn & John Loftus

[Matchett-PI]

Eric: "In other words, going into Iraq, in your view, having Khadafy now basically give up and surrender everything to us, getting the connection to North Korea and Iran - was a major strategy in the war on terror?"

John: "It was THE major strategy. Khadafy has now confirmed he is going to hand the Ali Sobree protocols over to the United States. Sobree, himself, is now in US custody and he is already scheduled as one of the first three witnesses in the trial of Saddam Hussein."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good to have a transcript of what I heard.

[netmilsmom]

bttt

[Dog Gone]

If this is correct, why isn't the administration touting it?

[CWOJackson]

Interesting reading.

[JOE6PAK]

The trial of Saddam Hussein....

AKA "O.J."part 2!

[Capt. Tom]

Somebody should have told Bush about this ;so he could have told us about it. -Tom

[GOP_Initiative]

So as to not panic the people?

I don't know..that's a good question...let's follow this.

[aft_lizard]

I once saw on the Discovery channel a story before the war how we infiltrated into Libya using a seal team and destroyed a meating between Iraqi and Libyan Agents discussing how they could perform a terrorist attack, I will google and see if I can find it.

[bitt]

sounds like the story is to be told Monday night, prime time, with scabs or no...

[RexBeach]

Well, this is very interesting, indeed! But why is this coming to light now? Why hasn't the White House said anything about this? Why did Mr. Loftus wait until now to mention this story in public? How can this be proved? If it is true, thank God!

[My2Cents]

Sorry, but I don't see a link to the full transcript on the Fox News site.

[Dog Gone]

It wouldn't panic the public to know that we had defused a major nuclear bomb conspiracy. It would reassure them that we were on top of things.

My BS factor is up on this, simply because hiding the story makes no sense, and revelation of it would score major political points.

[plain talk]

'My god, if the Americans ever go into Iraq, they're going to find out about our nuclear program. And who's going to pay all the Iraqi nuclear scientists in Libya if Saddam falls?''"

Uh ...Libya? North Korea? Iran? Terrorists, etc etc etc?

[Publius]

This adds a whole new dimension to that "railroad accident" in North Korea.

[Matchett-PI]

You're welcome. I videotaped him a few months back, too, when he was talking about that "hollowed out mountain" in Libya. It was right after Khadafy threw in the towel realizing the jig was up.

[JLS]

Too early, the public has forgotten 9-11 already. This information would likely come out after the GOP convention.

[pookie18]

I understand that FoxNews needs trimming, but the link doesn't have the transcript. I guess there shouldn't have been a link. Since it was someone transcribing what they heard & maybe should've been posted as a "vanity", can you put back what was trimmed (I'd read it before you trimmed it)? A lot of the meaning is now gone.