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2004-01-31 Home Front

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-31 1:18:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How they missed the mark is actually quite easy to explain. If Kay is right, then most of Saddam's weapons programs were frauds perpetrated on Saddam by the scientists, who did their best to hide the fact it was a fraud, to keep from being killed.

So, if Saddam's own people are lying to him, it is not surprising that the CIA (As well as MI6, French, German, Russian and every other western intel service) got fooled as well.

Posted by Ben 2004-1-31 4:41:30 AM|| 2004-1-31 4:41:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 if you ask me a load of scuds and shit are in syria while the rest of it got bulldozed under the desert in the 9 odd months of U.N wrangling/appeasing before hand.I do howerver believe they will turn up.

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-31 4:51:10 AM|| 2004-1-31 4:51:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ben, this also explains why the UNMOVIC Inspections never found anything. In retrospect, there was nothing to find, but the scientists did such a good job hiding nothing that even Saddam was fooled.

We should keep in mind that while Kay found no actual chemical, biological, and nuclear material, the Iraqis did have an active rocket program, and the UN sanction process was clearly unreliable. The sanctions and the "no-fly" zones were not designed as a permanent solution.

The UN resolutions were designed for Saddam to show he had destroyed his weapons programs, not for the US to prove he had or had not. Even if we now know our intelligence was flawed, it was really Saddam's obligation to demonstrate that fact to our satisfaction. Guilty until proven innocent. Even Col. Khadafi figured that out.

Posted by john 2004-1-31 8:22:00 AM|| 2004-1-31 8:22:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I think john has stated almost everything we need to know in a nutshell, however, this thing will be political trouble for dubya. This subject will be harped on ad nauseum up until the day of the elections, even though all of the Dem candidates thought Saddam had WMDs, too.

Posted by Les Nessman 2004-1-31 9:33:31 AM|| 2004-1-31 9:33:31 AM|| Front Page Top

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