"Suicide bombings were around long before the attacks on WTC.
Committed by whom, exactly? Radical Ba'thist terrorist groups?? Please cite an example of a suicide attack that conducted by a group that held PURELY Ba'thist views."
Read the post.
"Or on the ex CIA man who claims that the administration wasn't interested in intelligence that stated that Saddam didn't have WMDs(60 Minutes).
And how does that make him any different from you??"
As a CIA man he had access to information that the public didn't have. Now he is presenting it to the public. It doesn't fit in with your view of the Iraq situation, but that is your problem, not mine. Deal with what this man said. Read the interview.
It's not about Saddam and Al-Qaeda.
It's about WMDs. Niger, and "Meanwhile, the CIA had made a major intelligence breakthrough on Iraq’s nuclear program. Naji Sabri, Iraq’s foreign minister, had made a deal to reveal Iraq’s military secrets to the CIA. Drumheller was in charge of the operation.
"This was a very high inner circle of Saddam Hussein. Someone who would know what he was talking about," Drumheller says.
"You knew you could trust this guy?" Bradley asked.
"We continued to validate him the whole way through," Drumheller replied.
According to Drumheller, CIA Director George Tenet delivered the news about the Iraqi foreign minister at a high-level meeting at the White House, including the president, the vice president and Secretary of State Rice.
At that meeting, Drumheller says, "They were enthusiastic because they said, they were excited that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis."
What did this high-level source tell him?
"He told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program," says Drumheller.
"So in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam's inner circle that he didn't have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?" Bradley asked.
"Yes," Drumheller replied. He says there was doubt in his mind at all. (The word "no" is probably missing from this sentence.)
"It directly contradicts, though, what the president and his staff were telling us," Bradley remarked.
"The policy was set," Drumheller says. "The war in Iraq was coming. And they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."
Drumheller expected the White House to ask for more information from the Iraqi foreign minister.
But he says he was taken aback by what happened. "The group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they're no longer interested," Drumheller recalls. "And we said, 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said, 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change.'" " |
