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Tells 60 Minutes Former Iraqi Dictator Didn't Expect U.S. Invasion
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- etheline: "How do you know that George Piro is telling the truth? Are there recordings or transcripts of the interviews?"
Oh whoops! The CIA erased those tapes! Sorry!
Posted by pakaal at 09:31 PM : Jan 28, 2008
Yep the right wing bots will have have to believe Piro
ROLLING MY EYES - Reply to this comment
- 60 Minutes dissapoints - FBI is lame. Piro found out nothing that wasn''''t already known about Sadam and Iraq. The only ones suprised are Americans who bought into the Bush/media prewar campaign. The weaponds inspectors knew there were none, as well as no links to Al Qaeda. Best piece of work in FBI''''s 100 year history? What a farce!
Posted by dwfortruth at 11:00 PM : Jan 28, 2008
To bad they could not call stopping 9/11 as their best work ever. - Reply to this comment
- 60 Minutes dissapoints - FBI is lame. Piro found out nothing that wasn''t already known about Sadam and Iraq. The only ones suprised are Americans who bought into the Bush/media prewar campaign. The weaponds inspectors knew there were none, as well as no links to Al Qaeda. Best piece of work in FBI''s 100 year history? What a farce!
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- NWSWPride: "We did it.. we hired them all of them they all voted yes on the IRAQ war under the same pretenses that we were told and that the Bush administration knew..."
First of all, ALL of them DIDN''T vote yes, so you can stop lumping everyone together. My senators (God bless ''em) voted against it, among others. Here''s the vote breakdown.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237
Second of all, the Bush administration didn''t KNOW jack *** and we know THAT because there are no WMDs in Iraq, despite them lying to America for years about it.
A lot of people opposed the invasion from the start, and were labeled "traitors" and "unAmerican" for it for years, so you''ll excuse me if we pass on being assigned revisionist blame for something we actually opposed. - Reply to this comment
- etheline: "How do you know that George Piro is telling the truth? Are there recordings or transcripts of the interviews?"
Oh whoops! The CIA erased those tapes! Sorry! - Reply to this comment
- How do you know that George Piro is telling the truth? Are there recordings or transcripts of the interviews?
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- wonder if "Bushy_baby" came to your home, declared you to be a terrorist, and demanded that you bow to him, if you would bow, or be "too stupid" to?
Posted by FeelFree1 at 07:30 PM : Jan 28, 2008
They are watching us now, but they already know that I have no real power, so they just watch the ones that talk junk. - Reply to this comment
- Scott Pelley esssentially lied when he asked the interrogator why Saddam decided to go to war. He did NOT decide. BUSH DID. I am stunned and disgusted at this misrepresentation of the facts! He should be ashamed but then CBS has much about which to be ashamed.
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- Posted by FeelFree1 at 07:30 PM : Jan 28, 2008
You have no idea about me at all, do you? I ''bow'' to no one except my GOD Jesus. Even Bushy_baby would know that since he ''says'' he is Christian. and at my age, I would not bow to a tyrant even if I had ''no'' GOD. The Mujahideen have nothing on me in that regard. - Reply to this comment
ToolMangler,
Re: "he merely permitted them moderate access,"
They were satisfied with their access, and Blix was confident that he could complete a thorough inspection. He said so publicly, a number of times, ahead of the illegal invasion.
There is absolutely no excuse for preventing the inspectors from completing their inspection. At one point, just ahead of the invasion, they pleaded for just 30 more days.
The Bush cabal had clearly planned to invade Iraq at any cost, for whatever reason that they could sell, from the very first day that the Regime came to power. This is known.
On your comment about Saddam being, "too stupid to be the leader of Iraq by so badly misjudging a loose cannon like Bushy_baby"...I wonder if "Bushy_baby" came to your home, declared you to be a terrorist, and demanded that you bow to him, if you would bow, or be "too stupid" to?
It sounds like you would, bow, otherwise you would clearly be "too stupid" to own a home or a motorcycle, to procreate, or god forbid, to own a gun.- Reply to this comment
- Just wanted to make sure I added my sources into my comments..
NY Times: Saddam''s generals believed they had WMD to repel US
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. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by FeelFree1 at 07:04 PM : Jan 28, 2008
Look again, I called Saddam stupid for ''not knowing his enemy. and he did not ''open'' his country , he merely permitted them moderate access, - Reply to this comment
- you can say what you want about this article... and you can say that one party or the other is to blame for this war and this interview... That is bias on both parties sides.. As american people and the people we elected into office (GWB, HRClinton, BObama, JMcCain), we need to take responsibility as a Nation... I am a Democrat and looking at the current state of the economy.. It is both parties fault for poor politics... Can we for once just stand up and take responsibility for our actions? We did it.. we hired them all of them they all voted yes on the IRAQ war under the same pretenses that we were told and that the Bush administration knew... This article proves just how smart our friend Saddam was... He trick the entire world into thinking he had WMD.. including his own generals... They came to him just prior to the invasion and asked him if he was going to use the WMDs to stop the invasion.. he laughed and said I even had you fooled into thinking I had them... I don''t have any fend for yourselves!!
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ToolMangler,
Re: "This whole thing could have been stopped by him opening the country to inspections (without qualification)..."
He did. They were kicked out by the Bush regime just ahead of the illegal invasion.
You still seem unaware of this inescapable and easily verifiable fact, yet are presenting yourself as being knowledgeable on this topic, and calling others stupid.
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- Ironically, there has been a systematic campaign of executing Iraqi intellectuals, ever since the start of the illegal invasion of Iraq. There are some suspicions that the Israelis have been behind many of these killings.
Posted by FeelFree1 at 05:25 PM : Jan 28, 2008
You have managed to smear everybody involved in the war except for the Muslim radicals (extremists). Saddam proved himself too stupid to be the leader of Iraq by so badly misjudging a loose cannon like Bushy_baby that he allowed an entire country to suffer for his egos sake. This whole thing could have been stopped by him opening the country to inspections (without qualification)thenno one could have claimed him to have anything to do with 9/11 whitch was the big reason anyway. - Reply to this comment
Re: "ARE YOU ALL LOOKING FOR ANOTHER 9/11?"
That reminds me...has anyone seen ******** Cheney lately?
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- JUST IN CASE IT DIDN''T GET POSTED HERE IT IS AGAIN SO READ IT AGAIN AND STOP DENYING FREEDOM TO LIVE IN A FREE WORLD. PLAY POLITICS IN YOUR LIVINGROOM WHILE YOU STILL HAVE ONE.
I am very sorry for you bleeding heart liberals. If you don''t believe his account as an FBI agent just try and think back to when the Japanese wasted all our time when they were planning and invasion in Pearl Harbour. Get over your politics and just try and see how the world has changed. Remember that not one person believed the Holocaust ever was happening or for that matter it still never happened. What he did to the Kurds was no different and his fear of another 8 year war with Iran would happen again. He almost welcomed our intervention to save face. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ALL YOU FOOLS THAT HAVE NOT SUPPORTED OUR INTERVENTION. ARE YOU ALL LOOKING FOR ANOTHER 9/11? YOU CAN''T IGNORE TERROISM UNTIL YOU ARE BLOWN OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. STOP THE MADNESS AND STRIKE DOWN PEOPLE LIKE HIM AND STOP THE GENOCIDE IN AFRICA AND TAKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND AND TRY, JUST TRY TO STAND UP FOR WORLD FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN FREEDOM. - Reply to this comment
- I am very sorry for you bleeding heart liberals. If you don''t believe his account as an FBI agent just try and think back to when the Japanese wasted all our time when they were planning and invasion in Pearl Harbour. Get over your politics and just try and see how the world has changed. Remember that not one person believed the Holocaust ever was happening or for that matter it still never happened. What he did to the Kurds was no different and his fear of another 8 year war with Iran would happen again. He almost welcomed our intervention to save face. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ALL YOU FOOLS THAT HAVE NOT SUPPORTED OUR INTERVENTION. ARE YOU ALL LOOKING FOR ANOTHER 9/11? YOU CAN''T IGNORE TERROISM UNTIL YOU ARE BLOWN OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. STOP THE MADNESS AND STRIKE DOWN PEOPLE LIKE HIM AND STOP THE GENOCIDE IN AFRICA AND TAKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND AND TRY, JUST TRY TO STAND UP FOR WORLD FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN FREEDOM.
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- How dare Scott Pelley suggest that Sadam Hussein "chose to go to war with the U.S." ? Excuse me, but didn''t we invade them ?
This is just the latest example of Mr. Pelley shilling for the Bush administration. We could all see during his interview with President Bush, when he referred to the Democrat-IC party as the "Democrat Party", what a biased hack this guy is.
Send Pelley packing. I''m sure he can get himself a job over at FOX where he belongs !! - Reply to this comment
- It is hard to believe that 60 Minutes perpetuates the fiction which Bush-Cheney and the military-industrial complex propagate surrounding the invasion and occupation of Iraq. I expect to hear President Bush say,"Sadaam wouldn''t let the inspectors in, so we had to invade."
The U.N. inspectors were within three months of successfully completing their mission in Iraq when President Bush ordered them out so he could begin his term-long war profiteering. It is too bad that Scott Pelley couches his interview in Bush''s fiction! Why must truth suffer for the sake of sensationalism? - Reply to this comment
