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- Opinion · Aug 20, 2015Trump Accused of Trashing GOP ‘Brand’ — By GOP Brand-Trashers
biological programs. Our current director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said that he believes Saddam did possess the stockpiles, but “unquestionably” got rid of them during this … Iraqi general Georges Sada says that he helped send the WMD out of Iraq and into Syria via planes and trucks. The New York Times reported last year that American
- Opinion · Jun 26, 201410 Reasons Why Iraq’s Bloodbath Is Not W’s Fault
which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria.” Had we not invaded, Saddam Hussein would have soon restarted his chemical and biological program -- and resumed … assumed stockpiles of WMD. Kay found no stockpiles, but he did find that Saddam had the intent and the ability to restart his WMD program as soon as the heat
- Opinion · Jun 26, 2014Revisionist History Prevails on Iraq Invasion
Congress, underestimated the costs of the war and erred in focusing almost exclusively on Saddam’s supposed stockpiles of weapons. But otherwise, the war was legally authorized on 23 writs … troves of WMD have turned up in nearby Syria and more recently in Iraqi bunkers overrun by Islamic militants. Legally, the U.S. went to war against Saddam because
- Opinion · Jun 24, 2014Saddam’s WMDs: The Left’s Iraq Lies Exposed
precursors that would enable them to create their own WMD,” he warned. The latest revelations on the details of Saddam’s weapons stockpile, now potentially in the hands of Sunni … yellowcake procured before 1991 was any less dangerous in terms of its WMD potential, given Saddam Hussein’s regular defiance of international law also enunciated by Bush
- Alexander's Column · Jun 18, 2014Middle East Meltdown — Just Blame Bush!
assessment that components of the former and the bulk of the latter went into Syria prior to the invasion? Comment | Share Libby: “What assessment? What are you talking about … equipment prior to inspections,” and there’s “no question” that truck convoys moved WMD materiel into Syria. This would be the same Gen. Clapper appointed by Obama as Director
- Alexander's Column · Feb 19, 2014Iran, Iraq and Syria — Jihad Part 2
first national publication to quote sources indicating that some of Saddam’s “non-existent” WMD went into Syria . A year later, Gen. Clapper, then the former director of the Defense
- Alexander's Column · Sep 26, 2013Guns, and Other WMD
into Lebanon’s heavily fortified Bekaa Valley, for points beyond.” Wait, Saddam’s WMD went to Syria ? In 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asserted that Israeli intelligence confirmed “chemical … that there was ample evidence in satellite imagery of convoys of trucks moving Saddam’s WMD out of the country. This was reconfirmed by Saddam’s own air force general
- Opinion · Sep 6, 2013On Syria, Obama Is All Over the Map
investigations showed that Bush clearly hadn’t manufactured, doctored or misrepresented the intelligence about WMD in Iraq or that most of the world’s important intelligence agencies came … claims that Saddam Hussein had brutalized his own people, including with the use of chemical weapons. They went out of their way to deny any link between Saddam
- Opinion · Mar 22, 2013Was It Worth It? (Part 2 of 2)
during nine years of combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom. By April 9, when we went with Marine Regimental Combat Team 5 into Baghdad, more than 350 Americans had been killed … food program were commonplace, as was Saddam’s refusal to permit international inspections of suspect nuclear, biological and chemical WMD sites. Allied intelligence services, U.N. inspectors and a bipartisan majority
- Alexander's Column · Nov 11, 2005The TRUTH about Iraq’s WMD
perilously flawed logic. There is substantial evidence that Saddam exported most of his WMD capability to Iran and Syria before OIF -- which may, eventually, find its way into … WMD materiel to urban locations in Iraq and moving large quantities into Syria as well. “Those below the senior leadership saw what was coming, and I think they went
- Alexander's Column · Jan 28, 2005Lying about Iraq
been moved into Syria and Iran. That movement continued until President Bush finally pulled the plug on the UN’s ruse. According to publicly released findings, Saddam was not successful … states such as Iran and Libya (as recently discovered). In other words, Saddam’s formal nuclear WMD research programs were in disarray, but we do not know how much material
- Alexander's Column · Oct 29, 2004Bush lied? Actually NOT!
Saddam to export some or all of his deadliest WMD materials and components. At that time, we reported Allied Forces would be unlikely to discover Iraq’s WMD … stores, noting, “Our sources estimate that Saddam shipped Iraq’s chemical, biological (weapons-grade anthrax) and nuclear WMD stores and components to Syria and into Lebanon’s heavily fortified Bekaa
- Alexander's Column · Apr 30, 2004Operation Iraqi Freedom — the year in review
Jordan] via Syria -- explosives, detonators and poison gas -- sound like those fabled weapons of mass destruction? ...Former Iraq Survey Group chief David Kay named Syria as a likely repository … former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam’s WMD programs,’ Kay told the London Telegraph in January
- Alexander's Column · Mar 19, 2004The Web of Nuclear WMD: Khan’s Network
insisting that Iraq had no active nuclear WMD programs in recent years. (Ironically, that is precisely where some elements of his WMD programs likely remain concealed -- in the sand … determine which state-sponsors of terrorism were buying nuclear WMD components, and the current stage of their nuclear WMD program development. It’s an old ruse: If you want
- Alexander's Column · Jan 30, 2004Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...(Part 2)
Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam’s WMD program.” Kay added, ominously, “Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue … noted that among the great exodus of Iraqi vehicles into Syria prior to 2003, Saddam’s most critical nuclear WMD components could have been transported across the border concealed
- Alexander's Column · Oct 31, 2003Saddam’s WMD went to Syria...
intelligence supporting our position that Saddam shipped most of Iraq’s chemical, biological (weapons-grade anthrax) and nuclear WMD stores and components to Syria and into Lebanon’s heavily fortified … WMD materiel to urban locations in Iraq and moving large quantities into Syria as well. “Those below the senior leadership saw what was coming, and I think they went
- Alexander's Column · Sep 19, 2003Progress and Setbacks on the War Front with Jihadistan...
WMD stores and components to Syria and the Bekaa Valley. This comes on top of last week’s assessment from Israel’s Mossad that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad allowed Saddam … never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either direction or control of 9/11.” Dr. Rice went on to say, “What we have said is that [Saddam] supported terrorists, helped to train
- Alexander's Column · May 9, 2003Bad bugs, big bucks — The French Connection
existence of the labs was “one of the more worrisome signs” of Saddam’s WMD development, UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix told the same body in March that there … Site List” contains roughly 1,000 sites to be investigated, including about 600 suspect WMD sites identified prior to the war (70 of which have been visited