"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Here's a short and now out of date list of the lies of Bush and his
administration about one subject...WMD:
We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized
Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the
dictator tells us he does not have.
George W. Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003
Iraqi officer admits to be source of 45-minute WMD attack claim:
paper
www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-07 18:31:33
LONDON, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- An Iraqi military officer has
admitted that he was the source of the claim on Iraq's alleged weapons
of
mass destruction attack that led to a British scientist's apparent
suicide,
the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
According to the paper, Lt. Col. al-Dabbagh, who commanded a
front-line unit during the build-up to the US-led war against Iraq,has
revealed how he passed top secret information to British intelligence
warning that the Iraqi former regime had deployed weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) that could be used on the battlefield against
coalition
troops in less than 45 minutes.
"I am the one responsible for providing this information," the
40-year old former head of an Iraqi air defense unit in the western
desert,
told the paper in an exclusive interview.
Yeah, right.
After six months of 1400 inspectors and 130,000 troops looking for
WMD, an Iraqi colonel comes forward to say Iraq had WMD.
No. Read it again. The Colonel was the source cited by Bush and Blair who
claimed that the generals were given orders before the war to launch WMD's.
You say Bush is lying. Well, he was going on info from guys like this
colonel.
There's a few problems with this tale:
First, the Colonel's interview is presented in the dark - I guess we have
to
take his word for it that he is a Colonel from Iraq and not a farmer from
Montana.
Second, according to the Colonel, Saddam had given the order to use the
weapons if things got desperate. I guess every single Iraqi officer who
had
the weapons made the same decision at the same time and decided to hide
rather than use the weapons. No small coincidence since they were all
risking death if caught and there could not have been communication
between
every Iraqi officer during the war.
Third, the Colonel fed expatriot Iraqis with the same information which
they
passed on to the U.S. Where are these Iraqi's now? They are on the
governing council. No conflict of interest there.
Fourth, not the Colonel nor any Iraqi officer is able to show where these
large WMD caches are hidden. Nor can they identify a single member of the
Republican Guard who may know where the WMD are hidden.
Fifth, Colonel wants us to believe that all the Iraqi officers who had the
WMD were really really good at hiding things since none of the caches have
been located.
Sixth, the Colonel says the weapons must have been chemical weapons
because
they were all given gas masks. That is his evidence - given gas masks so
the explosives must have been chemical weapons.
The "Colonel" probably was Sean Hannity doing a bad impression of a New
York taxi driver.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_1218017.htm