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

New York Times ^ | 11-05-03

[Dog]

Mom.......this smells like this info came from the Senate Intelligence Committee.

[PhiKapMom]

I put Jennings and ABC in the same category as the NY Times, the WAshington Post, CBS, and CNN for starters on credibility -- zero, zip, nada. This is being done to try and hurt this Administration and you can take that to the bank!

[Brian S]

ABC is "claiming" that Richard Perle confirms the story.

Will be interesting to hear Perle's further comments on the article...now that its make the rounds.

[Fledermaus]

Don't forget they all were drinking lots of sweet, mint tea.

[Semper Paratus]

This story has a lot more legs than the Sudan was going to five up OBL to Clinton on a silver platter but he blew it off one.

[rwfromkansas]

It doesn't have the feeling of an endless battering over and over this time...the story just does not have that kind of nature it seems to be played up as the lead every day for 2 weeks. At least I hope.

This would could end up very badly for Bush if played up a lot.

[Brian S]

If the reports are correct, we have the grand-daddy of all "hawks" confirming the story. Perle knows all!!!

[MJY1288]

AM 630 in Washington D.C. is owned by CBS and they led with this story all day, at every break. I found it laughable.

Here we have a story about Saddam willing to allow 2000 american inspectors free reign in Iraq, A promise of free elections and Blah blah blah. Like this was a credible effort to avoid war. I really have to question the mentality of whatever fool at CBS decided this was newsworthy, not to mention a lead story.

I'm sure the leftist morons at DU have gone orgasmic over this story, but that's to be expected. If Saddam said he was running for President of the USA as a democrat, they would back him

[PISANO]

So Saddam didnt believe we would attack because FRANCE and RUSSIA said they would prevent it........... SO he sends out a peace offering because he KNEW we would NOT attack?? Makes little sense.......so what is the TRUTH? The truth is Saddam is a mass murdering dictator thug whose time has passed.

[mikegi]

I love how the Leftist, hate-America media always makes it look like our enemies are totally sincere and we're the hard-headed ones. We accept the deal, send in a few agents, then Saddam kicks them out. Ha ha, fooled the stupid Americans again! That's what would have happened if we accepted this "deal".

There's also the constant blame America line for everything that goes on in the world because we don't "understand the cultural differences". Well, Saddam - the NYT peacemaker - could have avoided the war by doing something that would have left no room for cultural misunderstanding. He could have gone on Iraqi TV, said he was stepping down, then flown out of the country.

[lafroste]

In light of the DEM memo.......I wonder if this was leaked to the Times from someone on the Intelligence Committee....I don't think the Pentagon's email's are available to reporters..

This smells like a RAT planted story.

Ding! Ding! Ding! wE HAVE A WINNER! You have rightly recognized this as a Red Herring attempt at damage control from THE MEMO. They are following THE MEMO to obscure THE MEMO - and that is the smell of desperation.

[MJY1288]

ABC radio credited the story to their investigative reporter, and I think ABC was also orgasmic over this story. I havn't heard a thing on FOX, CNN, and MSNBC about this story and I refuse to allow my remote to stop at NBC, CBS, or ABC so I don't know if they ran with it tonight on the evening news

[MJY1288]

I'll do some research on Mr. Hage and get back to you, he is probably a Kerry Supporter :-)

[Dog]

Amazing we have a memo .....that Zell Miller called treason or its first cousin.....but the NYTimes and CBS and ABC feature this story.

What the media doesn't understand is we have their playbook....:-)

[Brian S]

Yes, ABC Evening w/Jennings used it as their lead story showing a clip of Rumsfeld stating (as the military action had commenced) "that the US had done everything humanly possible to avert war".

[PISANO]

I remember it too...........bunch of BULL CRAP being resurrected...............

[Brian S]

I'll do some research on Mr. Hage and get back to you, he is probably a Kerry Supporter :-)

As long as your at it, do one on "Richard Perle" also.... ;)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

And 11:05 and 11:10 and 11:15 and ...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeah.

ABC had this all over their reports.

While ignoring the demo's stalls and treason in the Senate.

While virtually ignoring the GOP governor wins in MS and KY.

While ignoring the continued filibuster of the judges.

...

But this, this one-man scheme to delay removal of Saddamn for two years, one person (maybe) turned over, and a "promise" to "hold elections" (not remove him from power!) is what they reported.

[Dog]

Another thing I remembered is the memo mentions the RATS wanted to open an investigation into Sec. Rumsfeld and his office ....and look whose deputy is mentioned in the article Doug Feith.....Rummy's aide.