Bush lied, people died?

[Highwayman]

By Larry Elder
Mar 2, 2006
I recently interviewed General Georges Sada, who served as the second-highest ranked general in the Iraqi Air Force. A two-star general, he wrote a recently published book called "Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein." Here are some sound bites from that interview:

Elder: General, as you know, the president has been accused of lying about the intelligence, fabricating it, cherry-picking it, that he wanted to go to war, he really didn't believe that Saddam had WMD. It was all a big smokescreen. When you hear people accuse the president of lying about WMD, of misleading the country and the world, your reaction, Gen. Georges Sada, is what?

Sada: Let me tell you. I am really surprised how people are speaking like this and their soldiers are still in the battle. You see, a soldier when he is in battle, he wants to feel that all his nation are backing him and they are with him. And now I tell you I feel very sorry when I see some people in this country, their soldiers are in the battle, and they are discussing political things making that soldier to feel that he is there in the wrong place. That's one. Second, if there was something right had been done in this country, it was the best decision taken in the proper time, to go and liberate Iraq from an evil dictatorship who only God knows what he was going to do in the region, and maybe even to America, because that man was possessing the weapons of mass destruction and then he was with very evil intentions towards all the West, especially America.

Elder: Fifteen months before we invaded Iraq, the president began talking about what our intentions would be if Saddam would not comply with the U.N. resolutions. During those 15 months . . . did Saddam have WMD, have stockpiles of WMD, and, if so, what type?

Sada: Iraq possessed WMD and they were there, and they were chemical and biological, and nuclear weapons. He have also deals with China to make it in China this time, not in Iraq, because F-16s of Israelis have destroyed the Iraqi nuclear project, therefore, he designed a new system to have the atom bomb to be done in China, and he would only pay the money, and he did for $100 million, and $5 million were paid for down payment. I know the bank, I know the branch, and I know the accountant who did it.

Elder: What happened to the chemical and biological weapons?

Sada: The chemical and biological weapons were available in Iraq before liberating the country, but Saddam Hussein took the advantage of a natural disaster that happened in Syria when a dam was collapsed and many villages were flooded. So Saddam Hussein took that cover and declared to the world that he is going to use the civilian aircraft for an air bridge to help Syria with blankets, food and fuel oil, and other humanitarian things, but that was not true. The truth is he converted two regular passenger civilian aircraft, 747 Jumbo and 727 . . . all the weapons of mass destruction were put there by the special Republican Guards in a very secret way, and they were transported to Syria, to Damascus, by flying 56 flights to Damascus. . . . In addition . . . also a truck convoy on the ground to take whatever has to do with WMD to Syria.

Elder: I've always thought it incredible, bizarre, unbelievable, that our intelligence could have been wrong, British intelligence could have been wrong, the French, the Germans, the Russians, the U.N., the Egyptians, the Jordanians, all of whom thought he had WMD. I never felt comfortable with the idea that everybody got it wrong. . . .

Sada: Your intelligence said that Saddam Hussein had WMD. . . . I agree with them. They were there in Iraq. But they didn't find them after liberation of Iraq, because they were searching not in the right place. These things were transported by air and by ground.

Elder: General, why would Saddam, knowing we were about ready to invade, transfer WMD out of the country instead of using it on American and coalition troops?

Sada: Because he knew that the power of America to liberate the country is more than what he can do. And maybe not all WMD were ready to use then. And that's why he transported to Syria and he thought that he's going to maintain in the power as he was maintained in 1991 and then he was going to get it back again and then proceed to complete the whole project of WMD.

"Bush lied, people died"?

To be continued.

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...02/188299.html

[TexKan]

I heard this guy on the Chris Baker show - talk radio in Houston. Very interesting - said basically all these same things. He is very hard to understand cause of the accent - so was nice to actually "read" what he had to say.

[wordsmythe]

Entertaining fiction, theory or whatever it is.

What it looks like mostly is the Bushies grasping for straws and trying to give their drones something to believe.

[Highwayman]

Every intelligence agency in the free world and all prominent Democrats in Washington said Saddam had WMD’s. To believe that somehow Bush knew differently and lied by repeating what was accepted as common knowledge is absurd.

The convoys were observed by our satellites and you can bet this guy’s story is being checked out by the CIA spooks along with the thousands of boxes of documents we seized that will take years to translate.

In the meantime try not to be a Michael Moore drone grasping at farts in the wind.

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Every intelligence agency in the free world and all prominent Democrats in Washington said Saddam had WMD’s. To believe that somehow Bush knew differently and lied by repeating what was accepted as common knowledge is absurd.

The convoys were observed by our satellites and you can bet this guy’s story is being checked out by the CIA spooks along with the thousands of boxes of documents we seized that will take years to translate.

In the meantime try not to be a Michael Moore drone grasping at farts in the wind.

You feel it all slipping away don't you Highway?

[Highwayman]

Ain’t nothing slipping here Wordy. Why, do you feel something slipping over there on the left?

[wordsmythe]

Slipping the correct way... Yes I think we shall see.

[TexKan]

Originally Posted by wordsmythe

Entertaining fiction, theory or whatever it is.

What it looks like mostly is the Bushies grasping for straws and trying to give their drones something to believe.

Didn't they say the same thing bout Monica????......... come on........ stranger things have been true!!!......... LOL

I don't know if we will ever really know bout the WMD's but what we know for sure is that it's not a threat........ I think they were there at one time and I think we are damn lucky that Sadam is sitting in jail....... the only luckier thing would be if he were sittin in a casket instead.

[Highwayman]

Saddam should have been taken down the first time he threw out the UN inspectors. But somebody was more concerned about his poll numbers and interns.

[Flying Dutchman]

So W lied about the WMD's? Hmmmmmmmmm......

If he lied then he knew they would not be there............then why didn't he lie some more and plant some? Do you truly believe that he, or his goons, would not have covered their asses if they knowingly were lying about them existing in the first place?
That means either he knowingly lied but forgot to place them there after we had invaded (not likely), he knowingly lied but figured the world would forget they were even mentioned (not likely), he knowingly lied but figured the chubby intern would forget they had sex and his wife would blame it on a conspiracy...wait, wrong president, sorry.
It just doesn't make logical sense to openly lie on such a grand scale without covering your bases, especially when they are so easy to cover.