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October 17, 2006Saddam wanted to strike the US?Many of us who live in New York have not forgotten that on 9/12/01 the only consulate not flying their flag at half-staff was Iraq’s. The “mediating intelligences” decided long ago that 45,000 boxes of documents from Iraq were uninteresting and they simply don’t cover what is being discovered within those boxes. But Ed Morrissey has been keeping track of things and ohhh…lookey here…March 2001: Iraq wants to attack American assets…: …a close look at document CMPC-2003-006758, translating it from the Arabic and revealing the intent of Iraq to attack American interests. The memo from the IIS complains about the election of “Bush the Son” and talks about the need to exhort terrorists to attack America… Read it, folks. You’re not going to see it covered in the Mainstream Media. After reposting the document, Ed notes: The timing of this memo seems significant. Recall that just two weeks prior to this memo, Air Brigardier General Abdel Magid Hammot Ali called on the pilots under his command at Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Force Base to volunteer for suicide missions. [...[ Ed concludes: That doesn't prove in a legal sense that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. It does show that they wanted to inspire others to attack American interests, and again that they actively recruited for these missions in their own military. That amounts to a policy to conduct a proxy war against the US, both at home and abroad, certainly a good cause for the US to pre-empt it. It's VERY interesting. To everyone but the press. Flopping Aces is also writing on this: Take the Putin warning, the letter written from a known terrorist group to Saddam, the Saddam document which asked for suicide bomber volunteers and this latest one and what you have is some real evidence that Saddam did indeed plan on attacking the US. Says Gateway Pundit: I am reposting [the entire document] since this will most likely be missed by the mainstream media. Indeed. I continue to be amazed at how incurious the press and the left are when it comes to anything that might actually prove that both President Bush and President Clinton were correct: Saddam had sites on the US. Saddam had ties to terrorism. It is a good thing that Saddam is no longer in power. http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/10/17/saddam-wanted-to-strike-the-us/trackback/ 12 Responses to “Saddam wanted to strike the US?” |
October 17th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Glad to see Saddam out of power, his sons disposed of, and eventually getting his just punishment from the Iraqi people. The war was a good idea. I have not been thrilled with the occupation so much–but we are still better off for seeing Saddam gone.
We could certainly have done better and have a moral obligation to do so. The fact that Sunni and Shiites have been killing each other does not mean that Iraq is worse because Saddam is gone. What it means is the resentments and hatreds that Saddam caused have built up over the years, just like they built up in the former Yugoslavia. Just like an earthquake–the forces built up over time. Zarqawi didn’t help things either.
When we finally sent Zarqawi to hell, the Iranians saw their chance to cause us difficulty and started firing up the Shiite militias.
We have to fight smarter, but the key is keep fighting, not running away. Murtha is wrong–the problem in Iraq is not us being there, but us not maintaining the peace.
October 17th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
I’ve always disliked the notion held by many on the left that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein “would never work together.” These death-loving monsters are all our enemies. It is the inability of the Left to recognize the similar nature of these regimes and their allies–if only allies of convenience–that causes us such trouble in combatting the jihadis.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
[...] Iraq Had Plans Against The U.S. The Anchoress has compiled an excellent round-up of blogs that continue to unearth evidence demonstrating that Saddam had both links to terrorism and plans to attack the U.S. [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 1:36 am
If only the media had as much interest in the underbelly of Iraq to be found in the documents as they do to find dirt in the Vatican Archives.
October 18th, 2006 at 5:09 am
All the news that’s not fit to print
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but here are some juicy news items you won’t be seeing in the New York Times (barring a rift in space and time, of course)…
October 18th, 2006 at 8:39 am
No one inside the administration doubted Saddam’s ties with terrorists, and Saddam’s desire to harm the USA.
Why would he not want to kill Americans? It was mostly Americans who kicked him out of Iraq and Kurdistan, and left him powerless - except to abuse his own people, and make WMD.
October 18th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Yes, Virginia, Saddam was going to attack us.
Yes, Virginia, Saddam was going to attack us.
October 18th, 2006 at 10:18 am
[...] In the detrius, The Anchoress reports that some of those zillions of documents from Saddam’s regime support intelligence claims. Do you imagine this will hit the airwaves or papers? [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Apparently “shoot first, ask questions later” is completely justifiable as long as the questions you ask later get some trace of the answers you wanted — just go from the gut, and let the rest work itself out. I suppose next we’ll be arresting people for arbitrary crimes they may or may not have committed, then digging through their archived communications to see if anything matches up superficially with ambiguous language that could be interpreted to support the accusation.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:33 am
That’s not quite a fair assessment, Misogynist. Back in 2003 when we went into Iraq all the intelligence (worldwide) agreed that Saddam was building WMD and that he was intent on targeting the US. This is why in 1998 TIME magazine ran the famous “showdown” cover of Clinton calling Saddam out. Recall that Saddam had attempted to assassinate Bush 41 while Clinton was in office, as well. Recall that until we couldn’t FIND the WMD, everyone - literally everyone - was in agreement that they existed.
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Bad intelligence is not quite “shooting first and asking questions later.” The papers that are being slowly translated now are simply bits and pieces of information which give us glimmers of truth supporting what we thougth we knew. That’s a far cry from the former. I’d worry more about the sorts of people in government who think your sexual identity should inform your political beliefs and registrations to such an extent that if you choose to be a closeted homosexual you are considered “fair game” for an unconsionable intrusion of your private life.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Quick Hits
I was going to save this one for my Sunday Funnies, but I can’t resist. Iowahawk has An Open Letter to the Conservative-American Community from Howard Dean.
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October 23rd, 2006 at 11:48 am
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