Saddam admitted he miscalculated, FBI agent says

Source: Reuters





Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24277030.htm

Despite having the most powerful, well-funded intelligence agency in the world on our side?

...was deciding to do business with the world's biggest crime organization, the Executive Branch of the US Government. Like a neighborhood hoodlum invited to "do a few jobs" for the mob, Saddam quickly got in over his head. Then, when he insulted the capo once too often, he was fed to the sharks.

didn't mean that The CIA wouldn't help give us a "reason" to invade Panama.

And just because the U.S. gave Saddam chemical weapons, showed him how to use them, and provided him satellite data of The Kurds, didn't mean we wouldn't hang him for doing what we told him to do in the first place.

rethug think tanks MUST BE working in overdrive; by the time THEY are finished JC him/her-self will have anointed bushco.

I feel so much better now!

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When Hans Blix and his team said that Iraq was largely in compliance with the inspection routine, these veteran experts in anti-proliferation were mocked by the wingnuts for being foolish enough to fall for Saddam Hussein's trickery. It was a foregone conclusion that Iraq was overflowing with WMDs and that the weapons inspectors were too stupid to find them.

I went back and looked at fucking Newsmax articles in 2003 and there were plenty of reports of diplomats and intelligence agencies that expressed doubt. Newsmax presented these reports as dismissively as possible, but there they were. I saved and email from just a few days before the war started in which I accurately predicted everything that happened: no WMDs, tribal civil war, massive kleptocracy, etc. This wasn't divine wisdom, but merely the inescapable conclusion one would have reached had they been paying attention to news and opinion sources that weren't actively beating the war drum.

Bottom line: Saddam Hussein insisted that he had no WMDs. That doesn't sound like someone pretending that he did. Try to find a single instance where Hussein equivocated on this point.

The wingnuts have so much blood on their hands, they don't even notice it anymore.

Piro, like Saddam, could have watched for months in the shipping news the biggest logistics lift since Gulf War One and asked himself, like Saddam, 'how is this not like Operation Desert Fox?'.

I mean, in the real world.

The fact is: what is Saddam's 'choice'? Abandon his WMD and allow international inspection to avoid attack by the US?

Piro should write for the National Enquirer.

...and on the apathy of Americans. * came to office with a promise to invade Iraq, so the Administration's intentions were never in doubt.

I personally do not believe ANY of this story. NONE. I still find it disgusting that he was hung for *Crimes Against Humanity* in a kangaroo court in Iraq.

We have a World Court for men like Saddam. It's all bullsh*t propoganda to send the fear of God (or possibly Allah) to Iran.

nm

Agreed, this is the worst form of evidence imaginable - "the dead guy agrees with me". We would need a Ouija board to cross-examine.

when Dan Rather asked him face to face before the war; "Yse or no, do you have or have the ability to manufacture WMD" ?


he wouldn't answer the question


hey
guess all that dual use fertilizer the previous administrations sold him was also a bluff ?


dunno, who do you believe in an election year anyway ?

"He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998... a four-day aerial attack."

Retaliate?

Retaliate for what exactly? Saddam Hussein didn't do anything except cheer after 9-11. If he was worried about the U.S. attacking his country for that, then he had a better understanding of the Bush's than I ever gave him credit for.