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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (77325)	6/21/2006 12:29:07 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

His own generals believed he had WMD? Wow. Then he really was fooling everybody. The columnist David Warren called it a shell game where the pea had got lost, as good a description as any. That's one reason why this "Bush lied!" meme really burns me - it is both ignorant and deeply dishonest. For gosh sakes, go charge Bush with his real errors of judgment, don't go around demonizing and scapegoating him for invented sins. The NY Times WMD story has gone into its paid archive, but here's an op-ed columnist who picked it up: NY Times: Saddam's generals believed they had WMD to repel US Jim Kouri Jim Kouri March 13, 2006 The New York Times reports that just prior to the United States lead invasion, Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein informed his top generals that he had destroyed his stockpiles of chemical weapons three months before their war plans meeting. According to the Times report, the generals all believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and were counting on the WMD to repel the oncoming coalition invaders. While reporting on this story, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said he is not surprised that the CIA and other nations believed Saddam had WMD since Hussein's own generals believed they had them. He said that this proves President Bush did not lie and that he believed what Saddam's own generals believed — that Iraq possessed stockpiles of WMD. O'Reilly also rhetorically asked when the Democrat Senators Reid, Kennedy, Durbin and others would apologize for calling President Bush a liar about WMD. He also asked when liberals such as Barbara Streisand, Jessica Lange and other would apologize to Bush for calling him a liar. According to the Times story, Saddam Hussein wanted the world to believe he possessed WMD in order to create fear and thwart any war plans by the US. The revelation that Saddam's generals believed they would use WMD against American, British and other invading forces explains why the US military found protective gear had been issued to Iraqi soldiers. The top commanders wanted their troops protected from the WMD they intended to use. "The Iraqi dictator was so secretive and kept information so compartmentalized that his top military leaders were stunned when he told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction, and they were demoralized because they had counted on hidden stocks of poison gas or germ weapons for the nation's defense, " stated the New York Times on March 12. The Times story supports the testimony of two former Iraqi generals who said that prior to the war, Saddam was in possession of WMD. renewamerica.us Foreign Affairs has a very good article on the brutal nuthouse that was Saddam's Iraq. To the last day, Saddam refused to believe that the US was serious. Saddam's Delusions: The View From the Inside foreignaffairs.org