February 7, 2006
MANUFACTURING NEW PRETEXTS:
Congress's Secret Saddam Tapes (ELI LAKE, February 7, 2006, NY Sun)
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.The committee has already confirmed through the intelligence community that the recordings of Saddam's voice are authentic, according to its chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, who would not go into detail about the nature of the conversations or their context. They were provided to his committee by a former federal prosecutor, John Loftus, who says he received them from a former American military intelligence analyst. [...]
The audio recordings are part of new evidence the House intelligence committee is piecing together that has spurred Mr. Hoekstra to reopen the question of whether Iraq had the biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons American inspectors could not turn up. President Bush called off the hunt for those weapons last year and has conceded that America has yet to find evidence of the stockpiles.
Mr. Hoekstra has already met with a former Iraqi air force general, Georges Sada, who claims that Saddam used civilian airplanes to ferry chemical weapons to Syria in 2002. Mr. Hoekstra is now talking to Iraqis who Mr. Sada claims took part in the mission, and the congressman said the former air force general "should not just be discounted."
If Saddam couldn't be trusted with them, Assad certainly can't be. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 7, 2006 1:17 PM
The moonbat left keeps assuring us there were no weapons of mass destruction. If Saddam is on tape talking about his weapons of mass destruction, well . . . Saddam must be lying then! He's in on the conspiracy! It's all a Rove plot to distract attention from Hurricane Katrina, which was a Rove plot to distract attention from Plamegate, which was a Rove plot to distract attention from the Gannon-Guckert affair, which was a Rove plot to distract attention from the Diebold voting machine fraud in Westerville, which was a Rove plot to distract attention from the failure to find WMD in Iraq, which was a Rove plot to distract attention from . . . .
Posted by: Mike Morley at February 7, 2006 1:46 PMManufacturing pretexts? As if! These guys are calling us up and asking "What would we need to do to have you invade us?"
Posted by: Mikey at February 7, 2006 1:48 PMMike Morley:
Don't forgot that God is a Rove plot to keep people voting like Kansans.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at February 7, 2006 7:50 PMCan't we backtrack our intelligence to scrutinize something like this? It seems to me, flights from Iraq to Syria would be something we were paying attention to then.
Posted by: RC at February 9, 2006 9:06 AM