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  • Iraq: Lights Out for the Myths

    12/09/2011 12:08:45 AM PST · by gabriellah · 3 replies
    TheCollegeConservative Blog ^ | December 9, 2011 | Kevin Reagan
    On December 2nd, the United States military officially handed over administration of Camp Victory to the Iraqi government. The sprawling palace complex of former dictator Saddam Hussein long served as the American military headquarters in Iraq. By the end of the calendar year, all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq (save for a small training force remaining behind to instruct the Iraqis). As we prepare to officially close the books on U.S. military operations in Iraq, perhaps we can finally also put to bed the many myths propagated by the Left as to the reasons for our intervention and...
  • Flashback: The Left on Saddam's Capture

    10/21/2011 10:05:32 AM PDT · by therightliveswithus · 11 replies
    Pundit Press ^ | 10/21/2011 | Thomas Ferdousi
    Many on the Left are celebrating the capture and death of Muammar Qaddafi. Even the liberal Daily Kos is beside itself. But how did the Left respond to the capture of a far more dangerous dictator with far more blood on his hands in 2003? Well, it wasn't the same way. Let's take Kos, circa 2003:
  • For Iraqis, Gaddafi death evokes Saddam memories (Tribes and Terrorists still control Libya)

    10/21/2011 3:42:53 AM PDT · by tobyhill · 3 replies
    reuters ^ | 10/21/2011 | Muhanad Mohammed (Twolastnames)
    Iraqis watching news of the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi remembered how their own dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted, fearing Libyans might now face years of factional violence as they did after Saddam's capture and execution. Gaddafi's death while trying to flee in a convoy Thursday came after eight months of war between Gaddafi loyalists and NATO-backed rebels who took the capital from the deposed leader two months ago. After the 2003 U.S. invasion that ended his rule, Saddam went on the run for months before he was dragged from a hole in the ground, put on trial and...
  • Saddam: What We Now Know (He was at least as big a terror threat as Osama Bin Laden)

    09/14/2011 6:47:12 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    National Review ^ | 09/14/2011 | Jim Lacey
    Saddam Hussein was a WMD threat and a terror threat to the United States and its allies. Too many of the post-9/11 critics have forgotten or were never aware of this fact. Even in last week’s NRO symposium, writers called the invasion of Iraq an “unjust war,” an “optional war,” and finally a “result of the flawed intelligence that skewed the perceived threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime to the United States.” There is little doubt that the pre-war intelligence on Iraq was faulty, mostly because of Saddam’s continuing attempts to convince Iran that he still maintained a potent WMD...
  • Joe Wilson joins with Al Jazeera to perpetuate baloney about Saddam and Al Qaeda

    09/07/2011 6:43:48 PM PDT · by LSUfan · 4 replies
    Terror Trends Bulletin ^ | 7 Sept 2011 | Unattributed
    It’s been a long time since anyone cared about Joe Wilson, the erstwhile career diplomat selected by his wife to travel to Africa to find out about Saddam Hussein’s quest for uranium. Things must be slowing down for poor old Joe and that government pension courtesy of US taxpayers must not be providing the life style that he so richly desires. So, Joe is talking with Al Jazeera, the news network of Jihad and Islamofacism.
  • Iraq Invades Kuwait (BBC On This Day 2 August 1990)

    08/02/2011 2:33:59 PM PDT · by TonyInOhio · 15 replies
    BBC ^ | 08/02/11 | Unattributed
    More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning.Iraqi forces have established a provisional government and their leader Saddam Hussein has threatened to turn Kuwait city into a "graveyard" if any other country dares to challenge the "take-over by force".
  • Saddam's Half-Brothers to be Executed

    07/16/2011 2:06:09 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 10 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 16/7/11 | Gavriel Queennan
    Five Saddam-era officials, including two of the late dictator's half-brothers, will be executed within a month after being handed over to Iraqi authorities by the US military, Gulf News reported Friday. The group, transferred to Iraqi custody on Thursday morning, were among 206 high-value detainees still being held by American forces ahead of a US military pullout expected by the end of the year. "We received the final 206 Iraqi prisoners being held by US forces, including five senior officials from the former regime," said justice ministry spokesman Haidar al-Saadi. "They (the five officials) will be executed within one month....
  • Panetta makes 9/11 gaffe in Iraq (AP Lies--Says Bush Connected Saddam to 9/11)

    07/11/2011 9:28:55 AM PDT · by MissesBush · 12 replies
    AP ^ | 07/11/11 | Paul J. Richards
    Newly appointed US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman. "The reason you guys are here is because of 9/11. The US got attacked and 3,000 human beings got killed because of Al-Qaeda," Panetta told about 150 soldiers at the Camp Victory US base. "We've been fighting as a result of that," he said. The administration of former US President George W. Bush had hastily linked Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator, to the 9/11 attacks. That was one...
  • Saddam Hussein's torture doctor has been working in British hospitals for SEVEN years

    07/02/2011 11:26:37 PM PDT · by Nachum · 19 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | James Slack, Michael Seamark and Fay Schlesinger
    A doctor involved in horrific torture by Saddam Hussein’s henchmen is working in British hospitals. In an astonishing immigration scandal, border officials have allowed the suspected war criminal to treat thousands of British patients. Dr Mohammed Kassim Al-Byati was given a permit to work as a doctor in the NHS by the Labour government in 2004. Checks failed to uncover his history of working for the notorious Iraqi Intelligence Agency, which ran the country in a reign of terror during the Saddam years. His job was to patch up torture victims so that they could be subjected to more appalling...
  • Bye-Bye bidets! US troops leaving Saddam palaces

    06/12/2011 12:26:44 PM PDT · by PROCON · 10 replies
    AP ^ | June 12, 2011 | REBECCA SANTANA
    BAGHDAD (AP) - Available soon: nine palaces in lakeside complex frequented by visiting kings and dictators, beautiful molded ceilings and light fixtures, many bidets, Saddam Hussein mural and former prison cell. As is, with Tomahawk missile damage. Contact: U.S. Army. Thus might read a real estate ad for the Victory Base Complex, one of the many properties the U.S. military is vacating as the Dec. 31 deadline for its withdrawal from Iraq approaches. It will leave behind probably some of the most elaborate, some would say tacky, office spaces ever used by American soldiers, sailors or Marines.
  • South Park 5-18-11

    05/18/2011 7:10:18 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 23 replies
    southparkstudios.com ^ | 5-18-11 | Parker and Stone
    Featured Clip Preview: I'm In Trouble Again? Cartman may have gone too far this time.
  • Libya vs Iraq

    03/24/2011 9:51:15 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 3 replies
    coworkers compare Libya and Iraq
  • Saddam targeted Bush, Rumsfeld daughters

    02/08/2011 4:45:48 PM PST · by Nachum · 3 replies
    breitbart ^ | 2/8/11 | afp
    Former US secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld revealed Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had a $60 million bounty on his daughters' head and also targeted ex-president George W. Bush's two daughters. "I was concerned," Rumsfeld told ABC's "Good Morning America" in his first live television interview since leaving office over four years ago. "Of course, the president and his family had secret service protection. My family did not. And it was a somewhat awkward moment in the meeting," he added in describing a 2003 national security meeting when he was told of the plot. Rumsfeld, who has two daughters and a...
  • Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders

    12/20/2010 3:15:14 PM PST · by NowApproachingMidnight · 15 replies
    Guardian ^ | 2010/12/19 | Martin Chulov in Baghdad
    As country debates whether to destroy everything connected to former dictator, Shia-led regime remains sensitive about relics
  • Big Media catch up to The US Report on Saddam's WMDs

    12/13/2010 6:01:57 PM PST · by Crush · 5 replies
    The US Report ^ | 13 Dec 2010 | Kay Day
    The US Report featured an analysis about WikiLeaks’ publication of official military documents disclosing weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. I wrote my column on November 9. Big media is just now discovering the significance and it’s obvious the political fact based on a lie—there were no WMDs in Iraq—was part of an overall, continuing assassination of US leadership. But there's more to this story than WikiLeaks. I focused not only on the WikiLeaks disclosure but on the tie-in to the Oil for Food scandal the United Nations (in my opinion) enabled. Wired Magazine admitted WMDs were in Iraq...
  • Saddam aide Tariq Aziz sentenced to hang

    10/26/2010 2:51:34 AM PDT · by South40 · 56 replies · 1+ views
    YahooNews (AP) ^ | 10/25/2010 | HAMID AHMED and BARBARA SURK
    BAGHDAD – Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Tariq Aziz was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime. Iraq's high criminal court spokesman Mohammed Abdul Sahib did not say when Aziz, 74, would be put to death. The death sentence was for a conviction on charges of taking part in a Saddam-led campaign that hunted and executed members of the Shiite Dawa Party, of which current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a member.
  • WMD Found in Iraq

    10/24/2010 10:04:06 AM PDT · by Ira_Louvin · 45 replies
    WMD Found in Iraq According to the latest batch of Wikileak documents. In particular, coalition troops kept coming across numerous artillery shells filled with mustard gas. Remember the terms of Section 8 of UN resolution 687 that ended the first Gulf War: Iraq shall unconditionally accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless, under international supervision, of: (a) All chemical and biological weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities Thus the instance of a single chemical weapon in Iraq violates the terms that ended the Gulf War, and...
  • Wikileaks absolve Bush (bio weapons, Iraq - as if ..)

    10/23/2010 4:22:31 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 88 replies · 1+ views
    Blogstitution ^ | 10-23-10
    I’ve written about this before … but with the release of the WIKILEAKS documents, even Wired magazine acknowledges that US troops found chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. But don’t worry; if you liberals keep telling yourself “Bush Lied”… you’ll get through this. By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But for years afterward, WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins, and uncover weapons of mass destruction In...
  • Gutfelf Mocks NBC News Reporter for Claim Saddam Hussein was "Moderating" Prior to War - Video

    09/06/2010 7:03:49 AM PDT · by Federalist Patriot · 11 replies
    Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | September 6, 2010 | Brian
    Here is video of Laura Ingraham and Greg Gutfeld mocking NBC News Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel for making the claim last week that Saddam Hussein was “moderating” just ahead of the U.S.-led liberation of the Iraqi people from his brutal and despotic regime. Engel seemed to suggest that if the U.S. had not invaded and left him alone, Saddam was becoming more “accommodating” and was ready to join the family of nations. To that, Gutfeld had a sharp response: “He said he was being more moderate. You have to ask him what he means by “moderate” – was he talking...
  • Kirk tries to link Giannoulias to Saddam Hussein

    08/09/2010 2:21:56 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 11 replies
    Sun Times ^ | 8-9-10 | Abdon Pallasch
    On a day that Democrat Alexi Giannoulias released a new commercial slamming him as a liar, Republican Mark Kirk tried to shift the focus back onto Giannoulias’ family bank, saying the bank gave a loan to Nadhmi Auchi, who Kirk said sold arms to Saddam Hussein. “According to the New York Times, he was a banker to Saddam Hussein,” Kirk said of Auchi. “And According to the Observer of London, he was a middleman in the billion-dollar naval arms deal between Hussein and the Italian Navy.” Voters should care, Kirk said: “This is not political Kryptonite -- this is Hemlock,”...
  • Vindicated for Removing Saddam

    07/24/2010 6:03:57 AM PDT · by LSUfan · 43 replies · 3+ views
    Frontpagemag.com ^ | 22 July 10 | Ryan Mauro
    President Bush’s top political advisor, Karl Rove, said on July 15 that his biggest mistake was not fighting back against Democrats trying to score cheap political points by accusing the President of lying to get the country to support an invasion of Iraq. Rove is right, but another mistake was made: not trying to vindicate the removal of Saddam Hussein using evidence, including Iraqi government documents, that was obtained after the regime’s overthrow. Compelling evidence exists to show that Saddam’s regime was sponsoring terrorists (e.g., Al-Qaeda), had the ability to quickly produce weapons of mass destruction, and the will to...
  • Flashback: Black Panther Leader Defends Saddam Hussein (video)

    07/15/2010 7:02:39 PM PDT · by Nachum · 6 replies
    breitbart tv ^ | 7/15/10 | breitbart
    From a private meeting of the New Black Panthers in March, 2002. Malik Zulu Shabazz defending Saddam Hussein and attacks President George W. Bush.
  • CIA's secret Iraq weapon revealed: a Saddam gay sex tape

    05/27/2010 6:32:08 AM PDT · by RobinMasters · 21 replies · 784+ views
    The Guardian ^ | MAY 26, 2010 | Paul Harris
    In their time, America's secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes to attack their country's enemies, including, most famously, an attempt to do away with Cuba's Fidel Castro by using an exploding cigar. But in a scenario more the preserve of careless Hollywood starlets such as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the CIA appears to have plotted to undermine Saddam Hussein with a gay sex tape. According to the Washington Post's security blog, some of America's spooks believed that shooting a fake video of Saddam cavorting with a teenage boy might destabilise his regime in the runup to the US-led...
  • Connection between Saddam’s Regime and Al Queda CAPTURED

    05/04/2010 9:11:41 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 12 replies · 728+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 05-04-10 | Scott Malensek
    Don't expect to see this on MSNBC or Huffpo, but feel free to send them an email. Suspected leader of Ansar Al-Islam, 7 criminal associates arrested BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested the suspected leader of Ansar al-Islam and seven criminal associates during a series of joint security operations conducted in Mansour and Adhamiyah today. Read more at floppingaces.net...
  • Arrest Warrant Issued for Saddam's Daughter

    04/20/2010 2:17:34 PM PDT · by Doogle · 7 replies · 551+ views
    FOX NEWS ^ | 04/20/10 | Ed Barnes
    A revised arrest warrant recently posted by Interpol may finally lead to the capture and extradition of Saddam Hussein’s eldest daughter, who is charged with supporting terrorist activities in Iraq. Raghad Hussein, who lives in Amman, Jordan, under the protection of King Abdullah II, was charged in November 2006 with supporting the Iraqi insurgency. But in the murky world of Middle East politics, neither the warrant nor the charges against her created much of a stir. She was, after all, Saddam Hussein's daughter. And in the chaos that followed the coalition invasion of Iraq, no one quite believed that the...
  • Nations Must Know When to Cringe and Crawl--But for the West It's Becoming Routine

    03/18/2010 6:08:09 PM PDT · by Shellybenoit · 1 replies · 153+ views
    The Lid ^ | 3/18/2010 | Barry Rubin
    Sometimes selective appeasement is necessary in foreign policy. But when and just how far should a democratic country go in such behavior? Here's a brilliant defense of giving in at times-which doesn't mean I necessarily agree with it, but I do respect it-and a recent example of how it's overdone and mistakenly carried out nowadays. The Times of London article is by George Walden, a former British diplomat and Conservative member of parliament with a lot of international experience. Let's consider what he says and how we should interpret it. The title tells a great deal: "We can't afford the...
  • Saddam Hussein weighed nuclear 'package' deal in 1990, documents show

    03/10/2010 6:48:56 PM PST · by neverdem · 3 replies · 596+ views
    Washington Post ^ | March 10, 2010 | Joby Warrick
    As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a $150 million nuclear "package" deal that included not only weapons designs but also production plants and foreign experts to supervise the building of a nuclear bomb, according to documents uncovered by a former U.N. weapons inspector. The offer, made in 1990 by an agent linked to disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, guaranteed Iraq a weapons-assembly line capable of producing nuclear warheads in as little as three years. But Iraq lost the chance to capitalize when, months...
  • Saddam Restarted Nuclear Program

    03/10/2010 8:47:12 AM PST · by reaganwasright1980 · 38 replies · 746+ views
    World Threats ^ | 3-10-2010
    At the time of the 1990 offer, Iraq was embarked in a crash program to develop nuclear weapons in the face of a threatened U.S.-led attack over its occupation of Kuwait. By that date, Iraqi scientists had acquired a limited amount of weapons-grade enriched uranium but lacked several key components, including a workable design for a small nuclear warhead.
  • Thank God Saddam is gone…

    03/07/2010 5:10:27 PM PST · by florm15 · 11 replies · 187+ views
    A Blog For People Who Love America ^ | 3.7.10 | Florencia Miguez
    Today, Iraqis made their voices heard, and MSNBC wants to give credit to Obama, even though he opposed the surge and maybe they even want to share some of that credit with Biden who wanted to divide Iraq into 3 countries. The truth is that President Bush deserves credit for taking action against a man that was a threat to the USA and what we stand for: Freedom. President Bush understood the threat that Saddam Hussein was, and he had the guts to do what was right. He didn't take a look at the latest Gallup poll before making a...
  • Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist

    03/02/2010 3:54:57 PM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 70 replies · 1,427+ views
    YahooNews ^ | 3/2/10 | BETH FOUHY/AP
    Political strategist Karl Rove says President George W. Bush made the right decision to launch the Iraq war in 2003, but the former White House adviser admits the failure to find weapons of mass destruction badly damaged the administration's credibility. In his new memoir, "Courage and Consequence," Rove blames himself for not pushing back against claims that Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency.
  • Biden 2002 On Saddam: We Have To "Eliminate The Threat" (Biden 2/14/2010,"it wasn't worth it")

    02/14/2010 1:26:53 PM PST · by tobyhill · 12 replies · 407+ views
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 2/14/2010 | RCP
    Joe Biden in 2002: "We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world."
  • At last! Have they finally found a 'weapon of mass destruction' in Iraq?

    02/05/2010 11:32:56 AM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 50 replies · 2,882+ views
    dailymail.co.uk ^ | Feb. 5, 2010 | Carol Driver
    They have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days. Today, the hard work finally paid off as soldiers found one of those elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that Saddam Hussein was supposed to have been hiding. So is it all round to Tony Blair's house for celebratory drinks? Unfortunately the discovery came just a few days late for the former prime minister, who could have used the extraordinary find as proof he was right about Iraq all along during the Chilcot Inquiry. But from the looks of the rocket, it would appear unlikely...
  • 'Chemical Ali' buried to adulation in hometown

    01/27/2010 9:10:36 AM PST · by EBH · 10 replies · 500+ views
    Yahoo News (AFP) ^ | Jan 27, | Mahmud Saleh
    OUJA, Iraq (AFP) – Dozens of Iraqis gathered at the grave of "Chemical Ali" in northern Iraq on Wednesday to praise the cousin and notorious henchman of Saddam Hussein who was executed for gassing thousands of Kurds in 1988. "He was one of Ouja's most remarkable men," said Abu Shehab, a 45-year-old man who insisted that Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known by his macabre nickname, had been hanged to appease Iran and the United States. "The execution of Majid was done to satisfy the American and Iranian governments, but he will always be one of the icons of Iraq," Shehab...
  • ‘Chemical’ Ali Executed in Iraq

    01/25/2010 10:17:43 AM PST · by Ben Mugged · 10 replies · 1,069+ views
    NY Times ^ | January 25, 2010 | NADA BAKRI
    A well-known face of the former government of Saddam Hussein widely known as Chemical Ali was executed Monday for ordering a gas attack on a Kurdish village in northern Iraq and for his role in other attacks that became notorious symbols of Mr. Hussein’s tenure. An Iraqi court had sentenced the man, Ali Hassan al-Majid, to death by hanging last week. He is known here as Chemical Ali because of the attack on the village of Halabja, in which more than 5,000 Kurds died. “I congratulate the Iraqi people for this sentence,” said a lawmaker, Safia Suhail. It was Mr....
  • 'Chemical Ali' executed, Iraqi government spokesman says

    01/25/2010 9:09:45 AM PST · by Second Amendment First · 32 replies · 876+ views
    CNN ^ | January 254, 2010
    Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- also known as Chemical Ali -- was executed Monday, an Iraqi government spokesman said. He was hanged after having been convicted on 13 counts of killings and genocide, Ali al-Dabagh said.
  • Saddam Hussein's cousin, "Chemical Ali" gets another death sentence

    01/18/2010 3:03:32 AM PST · by Scanian · 3 replies · 325+ views
    NY Post ^ | January 17, 2010 | ASSOCIATED PRESS
    BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday of crimes against humanity and received a death sentence for his involvement in a poison gas attack on Halabja. Families of some victims in court cheered when the guilty verdict against Ali Hassan al-Majid was handed down in a trial over one of the worst poisonous gas attacks against civilians. He has already received previous death sentences for atrocities committed during Saddam's rule, particularly in the government's suppression of the Kurds in the late 1980s. Other officials in Saddam's regime received jail terms for their roles in the 1988...
  • Saddam Hussein's cousin 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death for poison gas attack which killed 5,000

    01/17/2010 1:39:59 PM PST · by driftdiver · 31 replies · 818+ views
    Daily Mail online ^ | Jan 17, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter
    Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" has been sentenced to death by hanging for his involvement in a poison gas attack on the city of Halabja. Families of some of the 5,000 Kurds killed in the 1988 attack cheered when the guilty verdict against Ali Hassan al-Majid was handed down Sunday. Other officials in Saddam's regime, including former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie, also received jail terms at the Iraqi High Tribunal. The brutal attack on Halabja close to the Iranian border 22 years ago killed mostly women and children through a series of mustard and nerve gas bombings by...
  • Saddam’s building demolished for EOD site

    12/20/2009 1:00:38 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 317+ views
    This building in Basrah, once used by Saddam Hussein as an interrogation facility, is being demolished to make way for a new Iraqi Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) facility. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. BASRAH — A building once used by Saddam Hussein as an interrogation facility is being demolished to make way for a new Iraqi Explosive Ordnance Disposal office. According to Ken Bright, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region South project engineer, the community as a whole is happy about the demolition and new construction because the facility held bad memories. “To quote the...
  • Tony Blair Says WMD Not The Only Reason For Iraq War, As Did Bush…..Both Were Right

    12/13/2009 11:04:47 AM PST · by Starman417 · 13 replies · 981+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 12-13-09 | Curt
    The title of that article above, from the LA Times, is titled: WMD Not Point Of Iraq War. Of course it wasn't. It was One of MANY reasons for that war, one of which....and the most important in my opinion...was Saddam's support of terrorists. After 9/11 we could not allow this tyrant to continue to support our enemies while thumbing his nose at the entire world for the previous 13 years. As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II investigation report on pre-war Iraq Intelligence stated: Conclusion 10: Statements in the major speeches analyzed, as well additional statements, regarding...
  • Removing Saddam was right, even without WMD - Blair

    12/13/2009 5:55:06 AM PST · by nuconvert · 17 replies · 1,029+ views
    BBC ^ | December 12, 2009
    It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence he had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said it was the "notion" of Saddam as a threat to the region which tilted him in favour of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But his words have attracted critics - among them Hans Blix, who was in charge of the UN team searching Iraq for WMD.
  • New Evidence of Saddam-Terror Links

    12/09/2009 5:52:10 AM PST · by TDCAnalyst · 9 replies · 931+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | December 9, 2009 | Ryan Mauro
    The rationale for pushing forward in Afghanistan is that it is the “right” war, the “war of necessity,” the true base of the terrorists that attacked us on 9/11 and would try to attack us again. Essentially, those opposing the war in Iraq while supporting the war in Afghanistan try to frame the latter conflict as justified in every way the former is not. As the war in Iraq ever so slowly comes to a close and the history books begin being written, new evidence has emerged to challenge the narrative that the war in Iraq was something different than...
  • Son Lost in Saddam-Led Chemical Attack Found Alive 21 Years Later

    12/05/2009 6:38:11 PM PST · by nuconvert · 11 replies · 1,424+ views
    HALABJA, Iraq — Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant in 1988 and somehow lived through a deadly chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime? There was absolute silence as the judge announced the lab results. The man, who called himself Ali, was deemed to be the sole surviving child of 58-year-old Fatima Mohammed Salih, who had lost her husband and all her other six children in the poison gas clouds that covered the mostly Kurdish city of Halabja.
  • Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' Hits Iraq TV

    11/30/2009 8:17:39 AM PST · by maddog55 · 26 replies · 883+ views
    AP ^ | Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:06 PM
    BAGHDAD -- Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis have been greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein. The late Iraqi dictator is lauded on a mysterious satellite channel that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar's anniversary of his 2006 execution. No one seems to know who is bankrolling the so-called Saddam Channel, although the Iraqi government suspects it's Baathists whose political party Saddam once led. The Associated Press tracked down a man in Damascus, Syria named Mohammed Jarboua, who claimed to be its chairman. The Saddam channel, he said, "didn't...
  • Czech spy agency: Iraq's Saddam Hussein planned terror attack on Radio Free Europe

    11/30/2009 7:47:00 AM PST · by wmileo · 5 replies · 473+ views
    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | 30/11/2009 6:14 AM | Karel Janicek
    <p>PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic's counterintelligence service said Monday.</p> <p>Iraqi spies posing as diplomats were supposed to have carried out the attack, from a window of an apartment building near the radio's location in downtown Prague, The Czech Security Information Service, or BIS, said in a statement.</p>
  • Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraq TV

    11/29/2009 7:46:53 PM PST · by Saije · 7 replies · 454+ views
    Boston Globe/AP ^ | 11/29/2009 | Lara Jakes
    Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein. The late Iraqi dictator is lauded on a mysterious satellite channel that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar's anniversary of his 2006 execution. No one seems to know who is bankrolling the so-called Saddam Channel, although the Iraqi government suspects it's Baathists whose political party Saddam once led. The Associated Press tracked down a man in Damascus, Syria named Mohammed Jarboua, who claimed to be its chairman. The Saddam channel, he said, "didn't receive a penny...
  • Would Saddam Hussein NOT want WMD if his archrival, Iran had them?

    11/28/2009 8:02:29 PM PST · by ReaganCaesar · 12 replies · 627+ views
    ReaganCaesar
    Do Dumbocrats really think that Saddam Hussein would stand by and allow Akhmadinejad to get WMD and not want them for himself? Iran and Iraq were the bitterest of enemies, remember. They were constantly at war.
  • Shock Discovery: Community Organizers Pray to President-Elect Obama [BARF! BARF! BARF!]

    09/29/2009 7:43:58 AM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 340 replies · 14,876+ views
    Breitbart ^ | 2009-09-29
    "Hear our cry, Obama." "Deliver us, Obama." Video at link.
  • Iran Has Nuclear Warhead Plants In Tehran: Exiled Opposition

    09/25/2009 1:47:46 AM PDT · by Strategy · 19 replies · 1,721+ views
    AFP ^ | September 24, 2009
    PARIS (AFP) - Iran's exiled opposition movement said Thursday it had learned of two previously unknown sites in and near Tehran that are being used to build nuclear warheads. "Resistance sources have managed to uncover two centres that work directly on nuclear armaments and which were until now kept secret," Mehdi Abrihamtchi of the People's Mujahedeen told reporters in Paris, where his group is based. "They are places for research and production of detonation systems which is a major part of the mullah's atomic bomb project," he said, adding that his organisation had passed on the information to the UN...
  • Saddam's legacy thrives in the Arab world

    09/14/2009 5:23:45 AM PDT · by SJackson · 16 replies · 661+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 9-14-09 | DAVID KEYES
    Saddam Hussein killed more Arabs and Muslims than any other Middle Eastern leader in recent history. He committed genocide against the Kurds, launched wars of aggression against Iran and Kuwait, launched missiles at Israel and Saudi Arabia, tortured innocents without compunction and imposed totalitarianism in Iraq. His regime brought unprecedented war, terror and misery to the region. Why, then, does the Butcher of Baghdad remain such a heroic figure to so many Arabs? Saddam Hussein, at the opening of his trial. Photo: AP [file] Two decades ago, famed historian Bernard Lewis wrote a prescient piece in The Wall Street Journal...
  • Yes, The Iraq War and the 9/11 Attacks ARE Related

    09/11/2009 11:02:18 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 9 replies · 920+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 09-11-09 | Scott Malensek
    History-like hindsight-is supposed to be 20:20, but the deliberate partisan, political divide regarding the invasion of Iraq makes that hard. It's not a new phenomenon. Long ago it was said that the true story of a war can't be told until the last of its veterans has passed away, and only a few months ago did the last World War One veteran go to his great reward. For decades after the Civil War (and some would argue even today) the debate raged on, and the healing of Southern Reconstruction didn't really start culturally until the unity of the Spanish-American War...