Jan. 27, 2008
Interrogator Shares Saddam's Confessions
Tells 60 Minutes Former Iraqi Dictator Didn't Expect U.S. Invasion
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Play CBS Video Video Saddam's Confessions Part 1 In his first television interview, FBI Agent George Piro tells Scott Pelley how he won the confidence of Saddam Hussein and got the truth out of him in a seven-month interrogation.
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Video Saddam's Confessions Part 2 In his first television interview, FBI Agent George Piro tells Scott Pelley how he won the confidence of Saddam Hussein and got the truth out of him in a seven-month interrogation.
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George Piro (CBS)
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Saddam Hussein, during his trial in Dec. 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Hondros)
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Interactive Saddam's Judgment Background on the former Iraqi leader's alleged crimes, his life and capture, plus video and photos.
"And that was his intention?" Pelley asks.
"Yes," Piro says.
"What weapons of mass destruction did he intend to pursue again once he had the opportunity?" Pelley asks.
"He wanted to pursue all of WMD. So he wanted to reconstitute his entire WMD program," says Piro.
"Chemical, biological, even nuclear," Pelley asks.
"Yes," Piro says.
In the summer of 2004, legal custody of Saddam transferred from the U.S. to Iraq. And Saddam had no illusions about what that meant. "Prosecution and execution," Piro says.
When he appeared in court, Piro wanted to show that Saddam had been well treated, so Piro bought him a new suit and an FBI intelligence analyst cut his hair. On Piro’s last day in Baghdad, he brought two Cuban cigars to the jail and sat with Saddam in his tiny garden.
"He told me that we would see each other again, which I knew wasn't going to happen. And then he said goodbye in the traditional Arab manner. And I was a little surprised. I kind of saw him tear up," Piro remembers.
The traditional Arab manner of saying goodbye - three kisses on the cheeks - surprised Piro. "And it made me feel somewhat awkward. To be saying goodbye to Saddam Hussein in that fashion," he recalls.
More than two years later, Saddam went to the gallows. Piro says that Saddam calculated his performance - his defiance, his refusal to wear a hood, so that the last picture for history would not be those humiliating images of his capture. It was, Saddam understood, the last thing he could control.
Piro says Saddam expected to die and that it didn't bother him.
Why not?
"Well, his answer was is he was 67 at the time. He had lived longer than the average Arab male lived in the Middle East. He had a wonderful life. Got to be the leader of the cradle of civilization. And in his opinion, of course, had a significant impact on that country. The region. The world. So he was not bothered by having to face death," Piro says.
"No remorse? No concern for the kinds of things that he had ordered and done?" Pelley asks.
"No. No remorse," Piro says. "No regret."
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you believe soros paid liars LOL
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AP Reports ''Bush Lied'' Study Funded by Ultra-leftist George Soros
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/01/23/ap-bush-lied-study-not-revealed-funded-george-soros
bush did tell the truth, choke on it bush haters hahaha
Top Secret: Bush Told the Truth About WMD
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=26457045-1E9E-4795-9D31-0E5B73E74EE9
Foreign Intel Had Identified WMD Sites
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007528.php
Saddam, Nikita and Virtual Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A Question of Threat Perception and Intelligence Assessment
David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey
http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol2Issue23/Vol2iss23RivkinCasey.html
THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 27 JANUARY 2003:
AN UPDATE ON INSPECTION
Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, Dr. Hans Blix
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm
War was not illegal because it was authorized by Congress, therefore you lied.
Again, Clinton was cautious and did not take us into an illegal war.
BUSH DID! Get it?
If Bush had lied to get us into a war, why would he not have placed a WMD in Iraq to vindicate himself ?
And, guess what, Clinton made the same remarks BEFORE bush did. But it didn''t make it into Soros'' articles, did it. Gee, I WONDER why ?
As usual the typical republiCON will point their finger at someone else.
President Bush''s regime lied 935 times...and then they took us to an illegal war!
Not the Clintons, not any other politician mislead by their lies, the responsibility for this war lies directly on the Bush administration.
You know the 535 references to the Republicans carefully told ''false statements'' which then the far left translated to mean ''lies'' to get us into Iraq.
Funny thing is, Bill and Hillary Clinton weren''t listed as to how many times they said the same things. In FACT, no Democrat was listed. Does that mean they didn''t say these things - nope - it means they weren''t in the ''news''.
Gee, how did that happen.
A little bias reporting by those Soros Puppets maybe ?
It''s simple. We demanded, under threat of force, that the inspectors be let back in. Saddam allowed the inspectors back in. And then because we didn''t believe Saddam was being truthful or that the inspectors would find anything, we invaded. In other words, it was entirely the US''s decision to invade.
This doesn''t mean that Saddam was blameless...after all, if he had clearly complied with his obligations after the 1st Gulf War none of this would have happened. However, Scott Pelley is completely distorting and being dishonest what happened back in 2002/2003.
Scott Pelley has a history of being "creative" with the facts...meaning that you guys, CBS, really need a special Public Editor just to keep Scott Pelley in line. Otherwise his light grasp of the facts is going to really kick you in the bus someday.
I can see why Saddam Hussein was so taken with him.
I''ve read some of the comments that were made and how this was all propaganda put out by the Bush White House. I want to know one thing, were you in the room during the interrogating? Have you read George Tenete''s book about the CIA? If you think they are lying to cover up something, then why don''t you see if you can''t join up and maybe you can do a much better job than they can. I don''t agree with a lot of things that they do also, but to say that this gentleman is nothing but a Bush spokesman is carrying it a little too far. It didn''t take a rocket scientist is know that Saddem Hussein wouldn''t crawl into bed with Bin Ladden, but I guess there are a few in Washington that aren''t rocket scientists, and we know who they are.
Top Secret: Bush Told the Truth About WMD
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=26457045-1E9E-4795-9D31-0E5B73E74EE9
Foreign Intel Had Identified WMD Sites
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007528.php
Saddam, Nikita and Virtual Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A Question of Threat Perception and Intelligence Assessment
David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey
http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol2Issue23/Vol2iss23RivkinCasey.html
THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 27 JANUARY 2003:
AN UPDATE ON INSPECTION
Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, Dr. Hans Blix
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm
God Bless America!
Here''s a great dissection of CBS''s nonsense, from the award-winning, non-compromised journalist, Robert Parry:
CBS Falsifies Iraq War History
By Robert Parry
January 28, 2008
There%u2019s a cynical old saying that the victors write the history. CBS%u2019s %u201C60 Minutes%u201D demonstrated how that process works on Jan. 27 in airing Scott Pelley%u2019s interview with the FBI agent who de-briefed former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
In a world of objective reality, a reporter might say that the United States launched an unprovoked invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, under the false pretense that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, even after Iraq had repeatedly %u2013 and accurately %u2013 announced that its WMD had been destroyed in the 1990s.
On Dec. 7, 2002, Iraq even sent to the United Nations a 12,000-page declaration explaining how its WMD stockpiles had been eliminated. In fall 2002, Hussein%u2019s government also allowed teams of U.N. inspectors into Iraq and gave them free rein to examine any site of their choosing ...
See the rest of Robert Parry''s demolition of "60 Minutes" nonsense at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/012808.html
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THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. GEORGE W. BUSH DREW AMERICA TO INVADE IRAQ... THIS IS THE FREAKING LYING AMERICAN PRESS AT ITS FINEST. YOU BIG FREAKING LIEING SACKS OF $HIT AT CBS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO INTEGRITY WHATSO''*** EVER AND NO PLACE IN OUR DEMOCRACY. AND THEY HAVE NO SHAME IN DOCUMENTING THIS FOR EVERYONE TO SEE.
We have approximately 160,000 soldiers that have covered that country from one piece of sand to another. They have not found one single shred of evidence that there were WMD''s, and maybe one place where they might possibly have been making biological weapons. Plus, don''t you think an Iraqi somewhere wouldn''t have come out by now and pointed to exactly where they were??? Our government would''ve paid MEGA bucks to anybody that could show them such evidence of WMD''s.
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