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2003-06-05 Britain

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Posted by JP 2003-06-05 08:11 am|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks JP. I thought maybe they were winked to the bottom of the deep blue sea!! :-)

Posted by Anon 2003-06-05 21:47:43|| 2003-06-05 21:47:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I happen to believe that western intelligence was acting on information they believed to be true. There are several theories about why the WMD have not been found yet: Destroyed before we got there; Saddam thought he had them, but did not; exported to Syria or the "Ghost Ships".

I am starting to wonder if perhaps Saddam's intelligence people fed the coalition information they KNEW would cause a military strike, so they could be rid of Saddam once and for all. All of this evidence may have been fabricated, but not necessarily by any western sources. Couldn't it be that governmental sources in Iraq were so desperate to remove Saddam that they caused the invasion by fabricating their own intelligence?

Posted by mjh 2003-06-05 09:04:54|| 2003-06-05 09:04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Exiled Iraqi Chalabi may have been feeding Western Intelligence Iraqi informants and Defectors with false stories.
Chalabi had reasons to want a US invasion for his own political aspirations in a post Saddam Iraq. Bush had reason to want to beleive everything the defectors told him about a WMD program. It's a marriage made in heaven especially when the advice from the CIA is ignored.

Posted by PAUL 2003-06-05 09:25:13|| [www.iscandar.blogspot.com] 2003-06-05 09:25:13|| Front Page Top

#4 paul - the source mentioned in the post was NOT a defector, but a serving iraqi officer - didnt you read the post??

MJH - very interesting theory - i think you may be on to something. Its possible, even likely, that a combination is true - there WERE some weapons and development programs, (EG the mobile labs) but that folks inside Iraq exagerated them for a variety of reasons, one of which might have been to bring down the regime.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-05 09:28:50|| 2003-06-05 09:28:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I said "Informants" and Defectors. The serving Iraqi officer would fall under "Informant"

I think MJH theory and my Theory have a lot in common.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-06-05 10:50:26|| 2003-06-05 10:50:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The Last Post was from PAUL

Posted by PAUL 2003-06-05 10:51:07|| [www.iscandar.blogspot.com] 2003-06-05 10:51:07|| Front Page Top

#7 You think a serving iraqi officer, a "senior figure in Mr. Husseins regime" was simply passing along items fed to him by chalabi??? I doubt that is true. I also doubt the CIA advised that it was true. I think this something very different.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-05 11:29:30|| 2003-06-05 11:29:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Has anyone heard what happened to the ghost ships? I have been very curious to know what they were all about, but I haven't heard anything since the report before the war that they were sailing in ever-decreasing circles. Inquiring minds want to know...

Posted by Anon 2003-06-05 12:35:49|| 2003-06-05 12:35:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Anon -- maybe they kept sailing in ever-decreasing circles until they simply winked out of existence? (G!)

According to Taiwan News, "Western U.S., British and German intelligence services failed to confirm on Wednesday (presumably 02/19/03) the existence of three mystery ships suspected of carrying Iraqi weapons of mass destruction reported by a British newspaper (the Independent).

http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2003/02/21/1045792101.htm

Posted by JP 2003-06-05 13:29:15|| 2003-06-05 13:29:15|| Front Page Top

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