Posted on 05/17/2006 2:34:55 AM PDT by The Raven
On Dec. 16, 2003, three days after Saddam Hussein was pulled from his hole near Tikrit, Robert G. Joseph, who headed counterproliferation on the White House National Security Council, flew to London for a secret meeting with his British and Libyan counterparts to discuss how and when Libya would announce the abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction. "The trip was so close-hold that it was cleared neither with the British Embassy in Washington nor the American Embassy in London," a senior U.S. official recalled. Neither Donald Rumsfeld nor Colin Powell knew of it in advance.
Seated around an antique wooden table with senior British and Libyan officials at the Traveler's Club in London--chosen by the British for being a discreet place to meet--Mr. Joseph was stunned by the evasiveness of the draft announcement initially presented by Musa Kusa, Libya's U.S.-educated foreign intelligence chief and de facto head of its six-man delegation. The statement failed to mention even the existence of banned weapons or programs in Libya, nor did it say that Moammar al-Gadhafi, Libya's strongman, was prepared to abandon them. Instead, the draft spoke of the "spirit of Christmas," of all things, and Libya's desire to establish a "WMD-free zone" in the Middle East, according to an official who saw several early drafts. "It was a mushy mess," he recalled.
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"Tell them I will do whatever they want."
Ho Ho Ho, merry Christmas!
If we abandon Iraq, there is going to be a resurgence of dictators around the world with coups going on wherever democracies are on shaky ground already, or Muslims constitute a significant portion of the population.
There was a feeling after we invaded Iraq that quite possibly the sleeping giant was awake, but the last couple years has lulled the enemies of our country into believing that America really is weak, and that we can't ever unify to fight anybody to the bitter end.
Great piece. The most interesting part for me was that Judith Miller can actually do decent journalism when she's not writing for the New York Times.
it seems as if respect and disciplines are becoming the first thing to go in these democratic societies, and that is what the society is looking for when they end up under dictatorship
there HAS to be both, respect and disciplines, in order to have 'order'; IMO
"...there HAS to be both, respect and disciplines, in order to have 'order'..."
If islam and muslims are involved, in any way, shape or form, there will ne neither.
Pray the Dems never regain political power; thinking and concentration are not their strong suit.
Ms. Judith Miller Aside: Welcome back from the DARK SIDE.
Quadaffi comes clean three days after we pull Saddam from his spider hole. Conincidence? I don't think so. That was sufficient reason to go into Iraq and remove Saddam if everything else was wrong. Looking at the inventory of WMD that Quadaffi had amassed should make any rational person's blood run cold.
15 kilos of 80% enriched Uranium. WOW, JUST WOW.
>>Quadaffi comes clean three days ...
Funny thing is - we would have not gone after him militarily. The left was just getting warmed up then.
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