March 17, 2006
Rove?
Why does stuff like this get released now?
- The government is finally getting around to unloading some of Saddam Hussein's secret documents. A look at just a few pages already leads to some blockbuster revelations.
In the early stages of the war that began three years ago, the U.S. captured thousands of documents from Saddam and his spy agency, the Mukhabarat. It's been widely thought the documents could shed light on why Saddam behaved as he did and how much of a threat his evil regime represented.
Yet, until this week, the documents lay molding in boxes in a government warehouse. Now the first batch is out, and though few in number, they're loaded with information.
Among the enduring myths of those who oppose the war is that Saddam, though murderous when it came to his own people, had no weapons of mass destruction and no terrorist designs outside his own country. Both claims now lie in tatters.
Information like that can only stand to butress the administration's pre-war claims. Is Rove involved? A way to perk up the base? Posted by AlexC at March 17, 2006 10:16 AM
Fakes and forgeries ... all of them ... in arabic. That's why it took 3 years to put them out! Yep, I can hear it now ... Rather: Fake but true, Bush: True but fake.
Posted by: mdmhvonpa at March 17, 2006 10:28 AMI have to criticize your excerpting performance on this one, AlexC. Here's the juicy stuff:
"Most intriguing from a document dump Wednesday night is a manual for Saddam's spy service, innocuously listed as CMPC-2003-006430.
(...)
The document also discusses the Mukhabarat's Office 16, set up to train "agents for clandestine operations abroad." The document helpfully adds that "special six-week courses in the use of of terror techniques are provided at a camp in Radwaniyhah."
Got that? Terror techniques.
Even as the media studiously avoid these new documents — just as they avoided 500 hours of Saddam's personal tapes showing his scheming on WMD — it's clear the U.S. did the right thing in invading Iraq and taking out a formative terrorist threat.
Saddam had close ties to al-Qaida. That's not just our opinion, but also that of the 9-11 Commission Report that so many in the media have selectively cited to bolster the case against the war.
As Chairman Thomas Kean said the day the report was released: "There was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida."
But a hundred more revelations like this will still fail to persuade Bush-hating peaceniks that the war was anything other than a business opportunity for Halliburton and putting a stick in Saddam's eye for "daddy Bush."
To the Randi Rhodes' of the world, self-defense is only justified AFTER some of us are already killed. And even then, only by arresting and jailing (death penalty, are you kidding?) the SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS who perpetrated that specific act.
But Ms. Rhodes also knows that self-defense is a powerful instinctive behavior, especially for Americans (read: cowboys) and one of many ways to discourage such bold and decisive action is to pretend there is no threat. Thus we have, "There were no WMD! Bush lied and people died! My mind's made up... don't confuse me with the facts!"
Posted by: johngalt at March 18, 2006 11:29 AMThe lengths to which the MSM have let down their customers, the nation, and the cause of freedom boggle the mind. For a little schadenfreude, check out Michelle Malkin's and Ed Driscoll's reporting on the rumored downgrade of the New York Times's debt by Moody's. (Hat-tip: pajamas)
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004790.htm
Posted by: jk at March 18, 2006 2:38 PM | What do you think? [3]