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| US misread Iraqi orders |
| 2006-03-15 |
| US intelligence analysts misunderstood intercepted Iraqi communications, believing the orders were meant to deceive UN weapons inspectors searching for chemical or biological agents, a new report says. Instead, the conversation between two Iraqi Republican Guard Corps commanders that included the order to remove reference to "nerve agents" from "wireless" communications was intended to ensure the regime was in compliance with international demands to disarm, the Foreign Affairs magazine reported in its online edition this week. That conversation was intercepted by the United States in 2002. The article was based on a recently declassified US Joint Forces Command report assessing Iraqi internal developments prior to the war. The report said that US analysts had no way of knowing Saddam Hussein was trying to comply, since Iraq had spent a decade trying to hide evidence of weapons of mass destruction. According to this report, Saddam was insisting that full access be given to weapons inspectors "in order not to give President Bush any excuses to start a war". Allegations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was Mr Bush's chief reason for launching the March 2003 invasion. In the months leading up to the war, Iraq did give access to UN weapons inspectors. The comments about "nerve agents" featured prominently in then US secretary of state Colin Powell's February 5 presentation at the UN security council that aimed to win support for a military conflict with Iraq. After the invasion, the US military searched for unconventional weapons but were unable to find any, adding fuel for war critics who insisted the Bush administration purposely deceived the US public about the reasons for going to war. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 HHHHHHHMMMMMMM, okay, so the news from earlier this week argued that Saddam's generals were angered and shocked at Saddam that Saddam had no WMDS but instead wanted to resist the Americans by relying on biowar and chemwar caches - GEE, MR. WILSON, NO WMDS THERE WID BIOWAR AND CHEMWAR. Now the MSM > today Americans are to believe that Saddam's focii was on IRAN, not America or the UNO or UNIAEA, etc. Saddam had WMDS, the burden was on him to prove he got rid of his caches PERMANENTLY, NOT PARTIALLY, and this whole "NO WMDS IN IRAQ" is the basis for the Left wanting America to be perceived as arrogant, dishonest and unreliable so that America can be justified in being forced under OWG and Anti-Sovereign, Anti-American American and Global Socialism, which for the CLintons is SSSSSSSHHHHHHHH, Communism and Commie World Order by any other PC/PDeniable description(s). "NO WMDS IN IRAQ = IRAN = NORTH KOREA = SYRIA, etc" > basis for anti-America OWG and for the dev of OWG itself. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-03-15 22:03 |
| #5 Never would Saddam have allowed the U.S. to find the weapons... Or Russia. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-03-15 16:53 |
| #4 Saddam still definitely had WMDs in my opinion.. just in the opening days of the war, they were all shipped to Syria. Never would Saddam have allowed the U.S. to find the weapons... |
| Posted by: bgrebel 2006-03-15 16:05 |
| #3 Oops, our bad, sorry. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-03-15 10:11 |
| #2 remove reference to "nerve agents" from "wireless" communications was intended to ensure the regime was in compliance with international demands to disarm, the Foreign Affairs magazine reported in its online edition this week. If the Republican Guard Commander's had no command and control over organic "nerve agents" why would they be discussing it in voice traffic anyway? I doubt there were any intercepts which discussed lunar vehicles, submarines, or battleships. Duhhhh? |
| Posted by: Visitor 2006-03-15 08:25 |
| #1 Shocking. You lie for 10 years and then people don't believe you when you tell the truth. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-03-15 05:02 |