WMD Revisited

Until I can get more of our contributors actually contributing, I will take the liberty of reposting their seeders from RepublicanForum.com.

Here is TC's latest installment.

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As reported recently in the Toledo Blade:

We've recently heard from Saddam Hussien's Deputy Chief of the Air Force during desert storm... telling of stories airline pilots had passed on to hims of WMD having been moved prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom's start.

Last month Moshe Yaalon Israel's top general at that time stated that the WMD had been moved to Syria six weeks before Coalition forces moved in.

Also last month former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security John A. Shaw, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith. "While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took, and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives,"

Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September, 2004, he told WABC radio "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.

Back in January, 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group, which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.

"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.

In October, 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, Jr., head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

Why haven't these reports been on the front pages of national newspapers, published in Time, Newsweek and other bastions of liberal thought.... I think we all know {g}

As one of those who's maintained all along that WMD were present in Iraq at the end of Desert Storm, and that those WMD did NOT evaporate between then and 2003, it's quite satisfying to be able to give you some NEW and easily verified reports on the subject.

I was getting tired of the dozen plus quotes of the Clintons, Madeline Albright, Pelosi, Shumer, Kerry, et al.

And I was especially bored with the theory that THEY were speaking based on the best intelligence available at the time and President Bush, a few months later... was lying due to his NOT paying attention to what his Intel types were telling him.

I do hope this clears up the situation for some of you and reinforces the confidence others had begun to lose on this subject.