Saddam’s Missing WMD’s, Part II
The American Thinker blog’s Thomas Lifson is reporting that more information is coming out on Iraq’s missing WMD’s. Meanwhile, is acting like there’s nothing to be learned from the Saddam tapes. Ryan Mauro of Worldthreats.com disagrees with the CIA on that after interviewing another Iraqi general on that and other issues. I suspect that Mssrs. Lifson and Mauro are more credible on this issue.
Ali Ibrahim confirms this and explains the underlying strategy of Saddam:
I know Saddam’s weapons are in Syria due to certain military deals that were made going as far back as the late 1980’s that dealt with the event that either capitols were threatened with being overrun by an enemy nation. Not to mention I have discussed this in-depth with various contacts of mine who have confirmed what I already knew. At this point Saddam knew that the United States were eventually going to come for his weapons and the United States wasn’t going to just let this go like they did in the original Gulf War. He knew that he had lied for this many years and wanted to maintain legitimacy with the pan Arab nationalists. He also has wanted since he took power to embarrass the West and this was the perfect opportunity to do so. After Saddam denied he had such weapons why would he use them or leave them readily available to be found? That would only legitimize President Bush, who he has a personal grudge against. What we are witnessing now is many who opposed the war to begin with are rallying around Saddam saying we overthrew a sovereign leader based on a lie about WMD. This is exactly what Saddam wanted and predicted.
Add to that this tidbit from Mauro’s interview with al-Tikriti:
RM: Why do you think Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are in Syria? Why didn’t he use them or simply destroy them before the war?
IT: I know Saddam’s weapons are in Syria due to certain military deals that were made going as far back as the late 1980’s that dealt with the event that either capitols were threatened with being overrun by an enemy nation. Not to mention I have discussed this in-depth with various contacts of mine who have confirmed what I already knew. At this point Saddam knew that the United States were eventually going to come for his weapons and the United States wasn’t going to just let this go like they did in the original Gulf War. He knew that he had lied for this many years and wanted to maintain legitimacy with the pan Arab nationalists. He also has wanted since he took power to embarrass the West and this was the perfect opportunity to do so. After Saddam denied he had such weapons why would he use them or leave them readily available to be found? That would only legitimize President Bush, who he has a personal grudge against. What we are witnessing now is many who opposed the war to begin with are rallying around Saddam saying we overthrew a sovereign leader based on a lie about WMD. This is exactly what Saddam wanted and predicted.
It sounds to me like a sizeable body of eyewitness accounts are exploding the myth that Saddam didn’t have WMD’s. Gen. Sada’s account is credible on this, as is al-Tikriti’s. They were part of Saddam’s inner circle. Sada was even involved in getting the WMD’s aired to Syria.
Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard is also digging into another potential source of truth for WMD’s: the documents that American troops found that talk about WMD’s and Saddam’s connections with UBL.
This won’t be a short process but it will be proven that the WMD’s were there until Saddam knew that his regime would fall.
FYI: Mauro’s interview is must reading.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing