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2004-10-16 Iraq-Jordan

Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-16 3:33:59 AM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Actually, if Saddam was one-tenth as smart as the thinks he is, he'd get a message to President Bush: you take the death penalty off the table and arrnage for a reasonably comfy exile somewhere, and I name names, places and dates.
Or alternatively, he IS as smart as he thinks he is, and is just waiting to be asked...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-10-16 4:02:06 AM|| 2004-10-16 4:02:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike I was thinking the very same thing.

A plea bargain could be approved by the Iraqi government & U.S. officals {{if}} Saddam names of all the French, Germans, Russians & if there are American & British contacts, names, bank account numbers, everything.

Which of his germ and chem weapons went to Syria & who assisted in moving the wmd.

Any drug deals he was linked with.

His mega-oil deals with Assad.

All al-Qa'ida contacts.

A total sum of what he paid Hamas to blow up Israelis.

Which terrorist groups or individuals he allowed safe haven for from the 1970's onward.

All data on his own nuclear & germ-chemical programmes with the French, Russians or other nations.

All those linked in re-labeling Iraqi crude oil, naming those in the U.N, Opec, etc.

Was Saddam himself playing the oil markets each time his oil supply was 'threatened' with cut-offs to the West by him, and how many millions he profited personally each time the energy market rose and fell.

It's a forgone conclusion some ceo's will not want Saddam speaking the whole truth when it comes to global oil industry and Iraqi exports. It's too bad.

Will the Iraqi general public go for any legal deal sparing Saddam's life in light of the countless mass murders he participated in directly or ordered?

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-16 4:35:03 AM|| 2004-10-16 4:35:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been pointing at these things for months (re: Syria).

Secondly, if we wish, Saddam could "suicide" with a bit of planning if we want him to. And once he is "dead", we can take him anywhere. Under survellance. Get the data. Then he really dies.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-16 7:29:46 AM|| 2004-10-16 7:29:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say."

He cannont say. That would mean, in the context of this article that he's not allowed to reveal that, yes, there were weapons of wmd's transferred to Syria, because he's not allowed to say that.

Posted by 2b 2004-10-16 9:41:38 AM|| 2004-10-16 9:41:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mark and Mike, this sounds good. Please arrange ASAP.

OldSpook, after we've pumped Sammy dry and he's off to 'exile', you know what to do. Make sure it's painful.

Posted by Steve White 2004-10-16 2:10:51 PM|| 2004-10-16 2:10:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like a Vast Rant-Wing Conspiracy to me.

Posted by Tom 2004-10-16 2:28:44 PM|| 2004-10-16 2:28:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Vast Rant-Wing Conspiracy--there they go again.

The WMD stocks did not just vanish into thin air. The facilities that were dismantled and the chem/bio weapons went somewhere. The most likely places are the Bunkers in the Bekaa Valley, the Al Qaeda navy via Syrian ports and into Assad's arsenal.

No, we don't have proof that stands up in a court of law, but we do have the common sense God gave us. We just have to use it.

This isn't about left, right or neo con, this is about survival in a war.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2004-10-16 7:14:57 PM|| [http://www.DouglasDeBono.com] 2004-10-16 7:14:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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