Iraq Made 11th-Hour Appeal to Avert War, Intermediaries Say

New York Times ^ | 11-05-03

[Miss Marple]

I have to go to bed. Early day tomorrow. I will check on this thread tomorrow and see what else you guys have dug up.

[MJY1288]

I did, I found the same story on Google, I just didn't link it. My link before #66 is not on the same guy in this article, His name is Wahid el Hage, not Imad el HAge

[A CA Guy]

They always made 11th hour appeals that they reneged on.
We also gave Saddam a day to leave.

[Dog]

This is slick....if you re-read the MEMO you will see that they wanted to open and investigation into Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.....and now this artcile pops up .....and it mentions the info came from internal Pentagon email's.....

They will scream for an investigation into Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz now.

See this story was in the pipeline before Hannity got his hands on the MEMO.

The LEAKER KNEW THIS WAS COMING!

[Dog]

We got ourselves a Democratic Deep Throat.

[MJY1288]

The only advice I have for any of these leftist Liberals who think they can take on Don Rumsfeld is this: "Don't come to a gun fight with a knife", and knives are the biggest Weapon in the Liberals intellectual arsenal

[MJY1288]

Pat Roberts is not going to allow any more of these calls for investigations by the vice chairman of the Intel Committee anymore. In the memo they gloat about that it was the Vice Chair who opened the Niger investigation and the Chairman had no objections. I believe Pat Roberts is mad as hell after reading that Memeo, it does make him look like a fool

[muleskinner]

The San Fran. talk show hosts, from the ABC affiliate, are re-energised and ready to start the "revolution". Maroons all.

Was Saddam going to quite his post? No. End of discussion.

[Republic]

Mr. Perle now plays down the importance of his contact with Mr. Hage. He said he finds it difficult to believe that Saddam Hussein would make serious proposal through that kind of channel. "There were so many other ways to communicate," he said. "There were any number of governments involved in the end game, the Russians, French, Saudis."

This lengthy article was a WHOLE lot of nothingness, even its main players discount there was any real attempt by Saddam to initiate this...what a hoax. Obvious in its non-news news.

But there you have, a tiddly wink of an aside, blow up all out of proportion, lying in some shadowy drawer, kept on the BACKBURNER as ti were, probably in witch hitlery's coven in DC, to be issued to her lap dog media the minute it became IMPORTANT to override a NEGATIVE and DAMAGEING news item about the dems.

Today is the DAY the memo the democrats slung around the intelligence committee, a memo that suggested ways to USE information and how and WHEN to use it to DEFEAT PRESIDENT BUSH next year. This borderline traitorous memo, which has merit, which the above story does not (talk about a WASTE OF TIME) should have been the lead in any HONEST media news program.

Imagine for a minute the tide was reversed, and the republicans had circulated a similar memo, WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, while billy clinton was in office!

So what led on the major nets tonight?

That President Bush refused to meet with Saddam to avert WAR! (My words...but I am sure all of you understand the major networks and how they always ELIMINATE any news that is negative towards their leaders...the democrat elites in DC.)

It is this type of propaganda, that people are SICK of...especially those who catch the memo story on the radio, and then at home, expect to hear about it, hear it analyzed and discussed in the evening news...and nothing about it appears. This failure on the part of ABC, NBC & CBS is what is causing Fox News to grow everyday as the major networks fall into the dust. Makes ya almost hope these agenda driven big three keep up their dishonest and unworthy work!

[MJY1288]

Nightline will be on here in 2 minutes :-)

[dubyagee]

And is this intelligence info that was leaked by those upstanding Democrats who pledged an independent investigation before knowing what they would be investigating? Am I off base here?

[MJY1288]

NOPE, Tonights show is on Drugs from Canada

[MJY1288]

LOL, Yup.... That's them :-)

[Rennes Templar]

Headline should read, "Saddam begs to continue his perverse life of opulent Islamism derived from his rule of genocidal terroristic tyranny and Rummy told him to go to hell"

[Rennes Templar]

Headline should read, "Saddam begs to continue his perverse life of opulent Islamism derived from his rule of genocidal terroristic tyranny and Rummy told him to go to hell"

[RedMonqey]

Actually I can believe Saddam DID send messengers to the Bush Administration making offers to prevent the war.

The Reason?

Saddam realized this was an "paper tiger" administration that wasn't going to made empty threats to appease an angry public like Clinton did repeatedly.
When thousands of armored vehicles began amassing on his border, Saddam knew he was in deep sh#t. Here was the president who was the elder son of the man whom he tried to assassinate, and it demanded REVENGE, a concept well known to middle eastern culture.
And like the Empire of Japan and the Hitler regime during WW2, when tanks appeared on their borders and they knew the end was near, both secretly sent ambassadors through neutral third party countries with peace treaty proposals.
However the time for treaties was long since passed and the Allies wanted the toppling of the regimes.
Just as the Saddam regime was to Bush.

Any agreements would just be so much paper to Hussein, just as it was for Hitler and as soon as the threat was gone, Saddam would be back to his old tricks. A la the First Gulf War agreements.

Bush was right to go to war despite the alleged peace overtures

[RedMonqey]

It sure read "Saddam realized this WASN'T an "paper tiger" administration

[HardStarboard]

>>>This reads like the script for another Mini Series, that CBS may be considering. <<<

Supposedly Peter Jennings is set to make a big deal about this with an intent to damage President bush.

[Dolphy]

Back when I was looking for any article by the two Newsday journalists who first reported the Plame outing, I found one of them turning up in a Chomsky quote (as I remember). I don't recall which of the two journalists it was, but he was being referenced as the only American journalist who had reported on Saddam's last minute, unanswered effort at diplomacy...before the first Gulf War.

All of these stories are developing a common theme.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Yeah, Penis Jennings, just one more of those immigrants, over here doing a job that no real American would ever stoop to doing. One more reason to secure our borders.