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| Bush Understated Saddam's Threat |
| 01.12.06 (10:50 am) [edit] |
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By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu FrontPageMagazine.com | January 12, 2006 Steven Hayes’ must-read article on links between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is stunning reading. Check out his article in The Weekly Standard. Hayes discusses initial information released from a trove of documents captured by American and Coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is not a footlocker full but a collection larger than many public libraries: a staggering two million items. Generally referred to as “documents” by the media, Hayes notes that many of these items are floppy discs, CDs, hard drives, and other “exploitable items” in Pentagonese, each of which may, in itself, contain hundreds or even thousands of documents. That means that the two million number may be double or more. It is an amazing repository of intelligence information on a rogue regime. And we are only getting the teasers. One of the oddities of history is how dictators like to document their atrocities. Hitler’s Nazi bureaucrats were compulsive memo writers and paper savers. Saddam, an admirer of the Fuehrer in so many ways, seems to have emulated him in this manner also. While we know lots of material was destroyed either by retreating Baathists or as collateral war damage, the amount surviving is staggering. And that is the problem. There is too much of a good thing. Because of the Democrat accusation avalanche - “Bush lied about WMD” - refrain that became the basis for the 2004 presidential campaign, the focus of the enormous translation burden to date has been on WMD-related material. Finding out what we can about Saddam’s WMD is a logical mission for many other reasons too. Much has emerged. But other regime actions have taken second priority, and this needs to be corrected. Another leftist slur is that “there are no links between Saddam and al Qaeda or other terrorists.” Hayes is a pioneer in his book The Connection in showing how strong ties in fact existed. Now the depth and intricacy of the Iraqi-terrorist connections are being revealed by Saddam’s own documents. As Hayes makes the point, inside these documents are the names and backgrounds of 8,000 or more terrorists who trained in Iraq from 1999-2002. Eight thousand terrorists trained in Iraq under Saddam! And anti-war media along with apologists for Saddam still blindly insist that Saddam had not ties to al Qaeda and to terrorist organizations. Such willful denial in the face of this evidence is delusional. Powerful stuff. Go read the rest. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20878" title="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20878" target="_blank"http://www.frontpagemag.com/A... The referenced article by Steven Hayes is here. If we've learned anything about GWB in the past, it's that the man is an excellent poker player. Stay tuned group, expect to see the left's bluff called soon... |
posted by: OttomanPrang (reply)
post date: 01.16.06 (5:01 am)
I certainly hope you are right.Stephen Hayes has been a voice of reason for some time now.
