Sunday, December 18, 2005
Israeli General: Iraq Moved WMD to Syria
It has been said before - all of the intelligence prior to the Iraq War said that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of WMD. Now, nearly 3 years later, while we have found some supplies, we have not found those "stockpiles." Where did they go? Did they ever exist at all?
Yes, they probably did - and an influential Israeli General says that they were moved to Syria six weeks before we launched our invasion, while France dithered and blocked us in the United Nations.
Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
Of course, the left and the anti-Semitic crowd will just say, "See - this is an Israeli saying this. Israel hated Saddam Hussein. There is no proof of his allegation. Besides - he is the only one saying this!"
Uh, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Yaalon is not the only one saying this.
Someone - an American - said this 2 years ago and the MSM refused to listen to him, as usual.
Spy chief says Iraq moved weapons
As we say here constantly, never argue facts with the left. Because even when you have the facts, they will either ignore them or make some up to fit their arguments.
It has been said before - all of the intelligence prior to the Iraq War said that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of WMD. Now, nearly 3 years later, while we have found some supplies, we have not found those "stockpiles." Where did they go? Did they ever exist at all?
Yes, they probably did - and an influential Israeli General says that they were moved to Syria six weeks before we launched our invasion, while France dithered and blocked us in the United Nations.
Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.
The assertion comes as President Bush said yesterday that much of the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was incorrect.
The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. "He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria," General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. "No one went to Syria to find it."
From July 2002 to June 2005, when he retired, General Yaalon was chief of staff of the Israel Defense Force, the top job in the Israeli military, analogous to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the American military. He is now a military fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He made similar, but more speculative, remarks in April 2004 that attracted little notice in America; at that time he was quoted as saying of the Iraqi weapons, "Perhaps they transferred them to another country, such as Syria."
Of course, the left and the anti-Semitic crowd will just say, "See - this is an Israeli saying this. Israel hated Saddam Hussein. There is no proof of his allegation. Besides - he is the only one saying this!"
Uh, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Yaalon is not the only one saying this.
Someone - an American - said this 2 years ago and the MSM refused to listen to him, as usual.
Spy chief says Iraq moved weapons
Iraqi military officers destroyed or hid chemical, biological and nuclear weapons goods in the weeks before the war, the nation's top satellite spy director said yesterday.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said vehicle traffic photographed by U.S. spy satellites indicated that material and documents related to the arms programs were shipped to Syria.
Other goods probably were sent throughout Iraq in small quantities and documents probably were stashed in the homes of weapons scientists, Gen. Clapper told defense reporters at a breakfast.
Gen. Clapper said he is not surprised that U.S. and allied forces have not found weapons of mass destruction hidden in Iraq because "it's a big place."
"Those below the senior leadership saw what was coming, and I think they went to extraordinary lengths to dispose of the evidence," he said.
As we say here constantly, never argue facts with the left. Because even when you have the facts, they will either ignore them or make some up to fit their arguments.
