March 13, 2006
WMD OF THE MIND:
Tapes reveal WMD plans by Saddam (Rowan Scarborough, 3/13/06, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
Audiotapes of Saddam Hussein and his aides underscore the Bush administration's argument that Baghdad was determined to rebuild its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction once the international community had tired of inspections and left the Iraqi dictator alone.
In addition to the captured tapes, U.S. officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi documents that tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-1990s.
The documents also speak of burying prohibited missiles, according to a government official familiar with the declassification process. [...]
"The factories are present," an Iraqi aide tells Saddam on one of the tapes, made by the dictator in the mid-1990s while U.N. weapons inspectors were searching for Baghdad's remaining stocks of weapons of mass destruction.
"The factories remain, in the mind they remain. Our spirit is with us, based solely on the time period," the aide says, according to the documents. "And [inspectors] take note of the time period, they can't account for our will."
Who's going to tell Mr. Plame? Posted by Orrin Judd at March 13, 2006 9:08 AM
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Mrs. Wilson.
Posted by: AllenS at March 13, 2006 10:01 AMThis is EXACTLY the main reason for my supporting the war and the weak point of anti-war activists. After the end of inspections sanctions would have had to come off and the no-fly zones ended. There was no credible end game that would leave us safer than taking him out given Saddam's past history.
Posted by: Rick T. at March 13, 2006 1:12 PM"Who's going to tell Mr. Plame?"
You beat me to it OJ.
"Daughter of the Mind" 1969