U.S. to search for pilot in Iraq

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 | By Bill Gertz

[JohnHuang2]

The Bush administration is ready to dispatch a team of experts to Iraq to investigate the fate of missing Persian Gulf war pilot Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher, defense officials said yesterday.

The Pentagon has drafted a reply to a formal offer from Baghdad to allow a team to look for the missing pilot if details for the investigation can be worked out, officials told The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Quote of the Day by browardchad 4/10/02

[Bogey78O]

Oh come on. We all know what this is about and what's going to happen. Saddam knows what happen. Bush most likely knows what happened. Clinton definitely knew what happened.

If the pilot was alive then only ONE thing could have happened. Saddam would have captured him and would have him or his remains.

The US doesn't want to find this pilot and Saddam doesn't want to tell us what he knows.

It's so sad really.

[Bogey78O]

Also the fact that Iraq wants to "discuss the case" most likely means they had him and they want to blow smoke up our butts and watch us dance.

[StriperSniper]

Nothing but stalling.

[dixiechick2000]

Interesting...

Bumping for tomorrow.
Good to see ya', friend!;o)
'Nite!

[the_Watchman]

The George Bush administration had just won the Gulf war leaving Saddam in control. They probably did not want the embarassment of a confrontation over this pilot, because there was almost no way to win and we did not want to underscore our actual impotence once the Gulf coalition had dispersed. This was sad.

The Clinton adminstration was clearly trying to avoid direct confrontations with Iraq. Therefore, they did not want to even look for the pilot and apparently overlooked possible connections between terrorists events, such as OKC, and IRAQ. This was criminal.

The current Bush administration would love to prove the pilot exists and has been held since the war. They, unfortunately, would get more advantage from this news than actually getting the pilot back alive. GW Bush is looking for reasons to attack Iraq. A live pilot returned to us does not fit the bill. This is truly unfortunate if the pilot is still alive.

[Howlin]

If that is true, I hope they get busted big time, and I do mean Bush 41 and Bill Clinton.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"The Iraqis said the U.S. team must include former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter.."

Is there any doubt left whose payroll Ritter's been on for the past year?

I hope the administration just says "no" to this bulls*it.

Make Saddam release this pilot as a gesture of his humanity.

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[Tallguy]

The George Bush administration had just won the Gulf war leaving Saddam in control. They probably did not want the embarassment of a confrontation over this pilot, because there was almost no way to win and we did not want to underscore our actual impotence once the Gulf coalition had dispersed.

I have no evidence to dispute your theory, but a poster on another thread pointed out that the Iraqis returned pilots that the allies thought were dead. These were also pilots of much more advanced aircraft than the F/A-18 and therefore of much more intelligence value. This Freeper's conclusion was that holding Cdr. Speicher would not have "fit the pattern of behavior" for the Iraqi regime regarding POW's.

Draw your own conclusions...

[Reborn]

Something NEEDS to be done for this poor soldier. May God forgive the APATHY of this country when it comes to our Armed Forces! {sigh}

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