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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: cirrus who wrote (19421)10/28/2004 12:32:35 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Here's the deal, President Clinton's terrorism "czar" writes a book that is published in 2004 that claims that al Qaeda and Iraq were involved in the production of chemical weapons in the Sudan. The former Secretary of Defense in sworn testimony to the 9-11 Commission also ties al Qaeda and Iraq to chemical weapons production in Sudan. The Secretary defended the bombing - even with what he knows now, he says he would have done the same thing. The chemical found in the ground sample from surrounding the plant, has only one known use, and that as an ingredient in Iraqi (and only Iraqi) VX - nothing else. The sample was tested by a reputable non governmental laboratory (according to Richard Clarke). Were there bottles labled as drugs seen in the wreckage of the plant? Yes. The United States bombed the plant just before the plant was supposed to deliver a shipment of medicine to Iraq.

In 1999 or so, there was a paper that was given to Congress stating that around the time of the first Gulf War (I believe its on the FAS website), Iraq sent much of its WMD manufacturing capacity to the Sudan and Libya (as well as some Scud batteries / with uniformed Iraqi crews). The paper claims that later, Uganda was threatened by the Sudanese of a chemical weapons attack, for their support of Southern Sudanese rebels. I don't know if Libya was using Iraqi technology and equipment for their chemical weapons program, but they have recently disclosed how vast their wmd program and stockpiles were.

So Tenet, Cohen and Clarke (CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, and Clinton's Chief of Counter Terrorism) all still defend the El Shifa bombing. I guess that leaves Sandy Berger (NSA chief), as the unnamed official, who now believes that the El Shifa bombing was a mistake - though I doubt it. Albright? I guess the person must not have been a Sr. Administration Official of the Clinton Administration. After the attack, the Sudanese complained that President Clinton is a war criminal. Do you think that President Clinton has committed crimes against humanity and is a war criminal? I don't!
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