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Saddam Accepted the American Ultimatum Before the US Invasion
Yahoo ^ | 10/30/06

Posted on 10/30/2006 4:10:24 PM PST by Mr. Brightside

Saddam Accepted the American Ultimatum Before the US Invasion, According to Rights and Freedom International

Monday October 30, 4:35 pm ET

TORONTO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A former political adviser to Saddam Hussein's son said today that Saddam was willing to yield to all American demands before the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- but that the Bush administration refused his offers.

The disclosure was made by Hossam Shaltout, a Canadian aerospace engineer, former American pilot, and founder of the peace organization Rights and Freedom International (http://www.rightsandfreedom.com), who said that war could have been averted, but Bush aides blocked his efforts to announce Saddam's decision.

"Saddam was willing to yield to all American demands, announced and unannounced, to reach peaceful resolution," said Shaltout, "but the Bush administration, including Elizabeth Cheney, undersecretary of State, David Welch, the U.S. ambassador in Egypt, and Gene Cretz, his political attache, did not respond to his offers."

Shaltout said he was planning to fly from Amman to Baghdad to announce Saddam's decision, but the Royal Jordanian Airlines officials claimed that the US ordered the flight to leave five hours earlier causing him to miss the flight, preventing him from announcing on CNN that Saddam would bow to the Bush ultimatum. Shaltout said he traveled by road to Baghdad, delaying him almost one day, but raced to get the communique approved from Saddam to broadcast over international TV stations broadcasting from Baghdad.

Couple of hours before the expiration of the Bush ultimatum, Saddam ordered Colonel Amer, his strongman, to facilitate Shaltout's broadcast of the communique. Colonel Amer ordered Allaa Mecky, the head of the Iraqi Channel 2 television, to accompany Shaltout and help him broadcast the communique."

It was very late at night and CNN in Baghdad was closed. So they went to al-Jazeera, and Shaltout told al-Jazeera Washington correspondent Hafez Almirazy on the air that he had the Iraqi government's official reply to the Bush ultimatum. Moments after Mirazy asked him for a brief, the plug was pulled on the transmission. Shaltout has a copy of that interrupted broadcast.

Shaltout said that when the Americans arrived in Baghdad, he offered his assistance to U.S. military officials. Instead he was arrested by Marines who went to his hotel suite taking his documents. Shaltout has the videotape of his arrest, and several supporting documents.


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To: traditional1

Funny when I was a kid I would always give in to my older brothers ultimatums just as he started to wail on me.


61 posted on 10/30/2006 5:19:34 PM PST by marlon
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To: FreedomCalls

Bush's ultimatum was that Hussein and his sons leave Iraq immediately. Never happened.


62 posted on 10/30/2006 5:22:51 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Here come I, gravitas in tow.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
A former political adviser to Saddam Hussein's son

What is this really? Is this like saying "Uday's best friend said..." and we're supposed to believe it?

This is a very bad October surprise if we're supposed to toss out Republicans because the friend of Saddam's son said so.

And shame on the media for passing it along.

-PJ

63 posted on 10/30/2006 5:22:52 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: marlon
I must be missing your point...are you saying that Sadaam was actually proposing to surrender before the deadline?

I don't know that the plain common sense you exhibited by caving in to your big brother would be consistent with what the suicide-bomber mentality would endorse.....

64 posted on 10/30/2006 5:23:06 PM PST by traditional1
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To: Mr. Brightside

How many ways can one say bull sh**?


65 posted on 10/30/2006 5:24:39 PM PST by DejaJude (Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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To: Mr. Brightside

Why didn't we hear of this during 2004? Very suspicious.


66 posted on 10/30/2006 5:24:45 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: edcoil
"If you accept American demands, then you have no offers."

BINGO! You hit the nail on the head.

67 posted on 10/30/2006 5:25:19 PM PST by NordP (America: There are more Patriots than Punks!)
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Oh well....perhaps they should pay closer attention to the deadlines....


68 posted on 10/30/2006 5:26:56 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

You know, we Americans are too damn nice. The U.S. Army should have shot that petty tyrant while they had the chance!


69 posted on 10/30/2006 5:29:52 PM PST by pray4liberty (School District horrors: http://totallyunjust.tripod.com)
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To: Mr. Brightside

What a bunch of pure BS. I was going to buy my wife a 2 carat diamond solitare, but; the bank and all my credit card companies shut down for five hours. It is always they were going to do something. What happened to the saying-"A man who wants to do something finds a way-A man who does not finds and excuse."


70 posted on 10/30/2006 5:30:19 PM PST by Lumper20
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To: Mr. Brightside

Which Democrat came up with this idea?


71 posted on 10/30/2006 5:31:22 PM PST by grb
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To: fishergirl; All

It is PR Newswire....this isn't even news.

Just a press release from some nobody.


72 posted on 10/30/2006 5:32:30 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: All

BS


to spin nov 7th


73 posted on 10/30/2006 5:34:29 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: grb; All

FYI, in the future, if you ever see PRNewswire, don't consider it news, for it isn't. It is only a press release.

That is all PRNewswire is.


74 posted on 10/30/2006 5:35:08 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Dumbie shouldn't have waited until the deadline to give the response. What an (censored)!


75 posted on 10/30/2006 5:35:43 PM PST by Maigrey (Airport Security - Useless Kabuki Theatre. - Ann Coulter)
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To: FreedomCalls

You nailed it.


76 posted on 10/30/2006 5:35:53 PM PST by Lumper20
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To: Mr. Brightside
He says his five-week ordeal which ended when he was deported to Egypt, left him suffering from depression, flashbacks, and an obsessive desire for death.

I thought those were symptoms of islamitis.

77 posted on 10/30/2006 5:36:33 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To liberals: Dead enemies need no political or diplomatic solutions.)
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To: traditional1
No what I was saying was he surely wasn't giving in before we invaded him. It's easy to say after your getting your ass kicked you really meant to give in or you were trying to give in but you didn't give me a chance.

Of course I think you may be trying to read into my remarks a little too seriously as it was meant as a joke. Are we really supposed to believe some lying islamopignazi advisor to Uday? I mean really the whole reporting of this guys comments is a joke in the first place. I guess Bagdad Bob was busy so the reporter had to find another person to bash Bush.

78 posted on 10/30/2006 5:38:56 PM PST by marlon
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To: First2Fight
Welcome aboard!

No flames for you.

"... founder of the peace organization Rights and Freedom International ..." Um, yeah. No reason to doubt this guy. Sure.

79 posted on 10/30/2006 5:42:36 PM PST by NicknamedBob (I dream the way some people get drunk. I have fun, but I can't remember anything.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Sounds like a load of crap. If true, why all the rigamarole? Just announce it. It's not like there was no Bagdad Bob.


80 posted on 10/30/2006 5:47:29 PM PST by rock58seg (The primaries are over. Hold you your nose if necessary, but ....VOTE!...)
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