Comments on: Interrogator Shares Saddam's Confessions

Tells 60 Minutes Former Iraqi Dictator Didn't Expect U.S. Invasion

[kkddbb]

the left will still claim bush lied no matter what. that bumper sticker add has proved to damage this nation and the left is invested in doing exactly that. if these leftists could think clearly we could actually get things done the right way the first time.

[incog-nito]

ozymandias88: No more hateful than your hate of anything you label "liberal".

[ozymandias88]

Bush hiss! Cheney snarl! Haliburton screech! No Blood for Oil!!! shaking with rage!

Watch as this new information simply bounces off the eyes of Bush Derangement Sufferers. There is NOTHING that could come to light that would deflect them from their lovingly nurtured hatred.

[megame1]

spike1949,
I agree, Sadaam lied but how are you going to impeach a guy who is dead?

[bobnjersey]

[History will show that he was not a terrible President, but a corageous one.]
[Posted by seeitright at 03:42 PM : Jan 24, 2008]

he''s an idiot ... before the presidency ... during the presidency ... and following the presidency.

[chinaski25]

"He thought that [faking having the weapons] would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq,"

Ummmm what? Iraq invaded Iran, not the other way around. I would think that an FBI agent assigned to interrogate Saddam Hussein would at least have his facts straight. That statement is very odd.

From Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580640/Iran-Iraq_War.html
"Iran-Iraq War, armed conflict that began when Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980 and ended in August 1988 after both sides accepted a cease-fire sponsored by the United Nations (UN)."

[kevin67a-2009]

"If you''re 20 and not a liberal, you don''t have a heart. If you''re 30 and not a Conservative, you don''t have a brain."

[incog-nito]

seeitright: Wrong. The purpose of the intelligence agencies, with its multi-billion dollar budget, is to determine the facts--what really is going on, not what the enemy wants us to believe. If we act based on what they want us to believe, then there would be no need for intelligence, and the enemy can easily manipulate us into doing what they want.

[skyk-2009]

So if Saddam was intentionally acting as if he had a fully functioning WMD program, then the pretences under which we went to war with Iraq were accurate. Our intelligence reports weren''''t false, they were accurate with respect to the circumstances (i.e. Saddam acting in every way, shape, and form as if he had WMD''''s). How does this do anything but exonerate George Bush from the accusations that he orchistrated the Iraq war with lies and deceit? History will show that he was not a terrible President, but a corageous one.


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Posted by seeitright at 03:42 PM : Jan 24, 2008
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So let me see if I understand you here... BECAUSE Saddam was afraid of Iran, whom we also are afraid of in Iraq, that makes Bush LYING to us about Iraq 935 times okay? That''s INSANE!! Have you looked at those LIES?? In EVERY case there was OVER RIDING reason to believe there was NO justification to attack and the Bush Administration simply MADE it UP as they went along. Please tell me you aren''t this hung up on your party.

[spike1949]

Wait til Dennis the Knut hears about this!

[seeitright]

So if Saddam was intentionally acting as if he had a fully functioning WMD program, then the pretences under which we went to war with Iraq were accurate. Our intelligence reports weren''t false, they were accurate with respect to the circumstances (i.e. Saddam acting in every way, shape, and form as if he had WMD''s). How does this do anything but exonerate George Bush from the accusations that he orchistrated the Iraq war with lies and deceit? History will show that he was not a terrible President, but a corageous one.

[devan95]

Per his comment below, Saddam was a serious threat and we did the right thing to take him out. Funny how many of those who criticize "W" for getting him criticized his father for not getting Saddam and finishing the job in 1990.
Saddam admits to interrogater before he was hanged: "He also intended and had the wherewithal to restart the weapons program. "Saddam] still had the engineers. The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there," says Piro. "He wanted to pursue all of WMD%u2026to reconstitute his entire WMD program." This included chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, Piro says.

[Mark_K_Davis]

Hearsay is nice, but we are ignoring primary source evidence that Iraq OFFICIALLY denied any WMD stockpiles when it submitted the 12,000 page report to the United Nations (see http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/chi-0212080460dec08,0,323005.story).

Regardless of rumour, innuendo, and hearsay, Iraq officially denied WMD stockpiles. This was confirmed by U.N. inspectors before the invasion and American inspectors after the invasion.

[d-lock1]

Saddam lied, people died.

[spike1949]

Sadaam lied, people died

Impeach him!

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