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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Congress Analyzing Saddam Voice Recordings

Interesting...
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

The committee has already confirmed through the intelligence community that the recordings of Saddam's voice are authentic, according to its chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, who would not go into detail about the nature of the conversations or their context. They were provided to his committee by a former federal prosecutor, John Loftus, who says he received them from a former American military intelligence analyst.

Mr. Loftus will make the recordings available to the public on February 17 at the annual meeting of the Intelligence Summit, of which he is president. On the organization's Web site, Mr. Loftus is quoted as promising that the recordings "will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important - and controversial - weapons of mass destruction questions." Contacted yesterday by The New York Sun, Mr. Loftus would only say that he delivered a CD of the recordings to a representative of the committee, and the following week the committee announced that it was reopening the investigation into weapons of mass destruction.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this.  What a lot of people forget in the WMD's debate is that we know Iraq had WMD's at one time.  Where we were wrong is expecting to find them in Iraq after we invaded.  They went somewhere.  "Where" is the question that has yet to be answered.

Maybe this audio recording will provide a clue.

Though, as far as I'm concerned, the WMD's debate isn't really all that important any more outside of political finger-pointing.  They were part of our basis for invading, but now that invasion is done.  We're in Iraq.  Our primary focus needs to be on completing what is left of our mission there and bringing the troops home.

(via Stop The ACLU)

Comments

Avatar for Don Myers

Rob:

This post needs a bit of copyediting to offer the complete picture and to bring it back to reality.

Chnages in bold:

“What a lot of people forget in the WMD’s debate is that we know Iraq had WMD’s given to them by the Reagan and Bush I regimes at one time, and Saddam used them against Iraqis and Kuwaitis with the blessing of said regimes.”

“Though, as far as I’m concerned, the WMD’s debate isn’t really all that important any more outside of political finger-pointing because all those fingers are pointing to the lies of the Bush regime”.

No need to thank me...I do it out of love.

Don Myers on February 7, 2006 at 07:03 am
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"What a lot of people forget in the WMD’s debate is that we know Iraq had WMD’s at one time.”

Thanks for reminding everybody that the UN documented the fact that there were tens of thousands of liters of Rison gas, Mustard gas and Anthrax in Iraq prior to UN inspectors departing in 1998.  So, there were WMD’s in 1998 and there were not in 2003.  What happened to them?

It’s an important question not because we need to win the argument with the Iraq War “doves”, but because those weapons probably still exist and could still be used against us!

Doug Purdie on February 7, 2006 at 08:02 am
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Don Myers:

What a lot of people forget in the WMD’s debate is that we know Iraq had WMD’s given to them by the Reagan and Bush I regimes

Once again you demonstrate your willingness to swallow anti-American lies, no matter how easily disproved.

You are one piece of work.

Carrick on February 7, 2006 at 08:03 am
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Don isn’t swallowing anti-American lies, he’s spewing them willingly and knows they are lies. He doesn’t care. He is corrupt and so is his ideology. The funny thing about is that if the ideology he holds so dear was to be implemented they’d take his worthless ass out and shoot him for doing what he’s doing. That makes him stupid and liar. In other words, a liberal.

bullwinkle on February 7, 2006 at 10:02 am
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OOPS! I did fuck up one thing, so please allow me to correct my correction:

“What a lot of people forget in the WMD’s debate is that we know Iraq had WMD’s given to them by the Reagan and Bush I regimes at one time, and Saddam used them against Iraqis and IRANIANS with the blessing of said regimes.”

Iranians, not Kuwaities. I apologize for the error.

Don Myers on February 7, 2006 at 11:02 am
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Lies? No, kids, you’re confusing me with the Bush regime---and I am deeply offended.

Bull, why is it that I often cite evidence to back up my claims while all you do is write screeds ‘bout dem goldarn liberals and how you’re right and everyone else is wrong no matter what the evidence says?

Don Myers on February 7, 2006 at 11:02 am
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Carrick:

Once again you demonstrate your willingness---nay, your nearly psychotic need---to swallow anything your masters tell yoou, no matter how often they get caught lying and no matter how often you’ve been proven wrong.

Dude, are you gonna tell me that the Reagan regime didn’t sell weapons to Iraq? ‘Cuz it’s not exactly a state secret or anything---it was in all the papers at the time.

Don Myers on February 7, 2006 at 11:02 am
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Avatar for Carrick

Don:

Dude, are you gonna tell me that the Reagan regime didn’t sell weapons to Iraq? ‘Cuz it’s not exactly a state secret or anything—it was in all the papers at the time.

I think you have Iraq & Iran confused.  We sold TOW missiles to Iran, not Iraq.  Saddam’s armies sported none of our weapons, including their combat rilfes, tanks, artillery pieces, jet fighters, communication equipment, anti-aircraft batteries including radar batteries and so forth.  All French or Soviet.  We armed them?  They were trained to fight Soviet style warfare, not American,r

Some American companies sold dual technology equipment, chemicals and biololgical (not WMDs) to Iraq.  This includes anthrax, useful for making bovine vaccinations.  None was ever used on the battlefield.  France and the USSR sent technicians to help them outfit their chemical factories, and the Soviet Union sent military advisors to help them use their WMD at maximum lethality.

“The US gave Iraq their WMD” is a bald faced lie.  “The US armed Iraq” on the other hand, is just a f**king stupid thing to say.  You’d have to have a hole in your head the size of your missing brain to believe that stupid shit.

Carrick on February 7, 2006 at 02:03 pm
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