Dear Deb
You say "Hussein was complying with the international community" but the
Washington Times on March 22, 2004 wrote " Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry complains that President
Bush pursued a unilateralist
foreign policy that gave short shrift to
the concerns of the United Nations
and our allies when it came to
taking military action against Saddam Hussein.
But the mounting
evidence of scandal that has been uncovered in the U.N.
Oil For Food
program suggests that there was never a serious possibility of
getting
Security Council support for military action because influential people
in Russia and France were getting paid off by Saddam. After the fall of
Baghdad last spring, France and Russia tried to delay the lifting of
sanctions
against Iraq and continue the Oil for Food program. That's because France
and Russia profited from it: The Times of London
calculated that
French and Russian companies received $11 billion worth
of business from
Oil for Food between 1996 and 2003.
and then this
By the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story... |
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 12:15 p.m. EST
New Documents Reveal Saddam Hid WMD, Was Tied to Al Qaida
Recently discovered Iraqi documents now being translated by U.S. intelligence analysts indicate that Saddam Hussein's government made extensive plans to hide Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 - and had deep ties to al Qaida before the 9/11 attacks.
The explosive evidence was discovered among "millions of pages of documents" unearthed by the Iraq Survey Group weapons search team, reports the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes.
This would seem to be evidence that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction.
You refer to "Curveball" James L. Pavitt, deputy director of operations and head of the clandestine service until he retired in 2004, never convey his own doubts to Tenet. Tyler Drumheller, former chief of the CIA European Division, said he never met personally with Tenet, but "did talk to McLaughlin and everybody else."
McLaughlin, who
retired in January after 32 years at the CIA, said he did not recall
the meeting and denied that Drumheller told him Curveball might be a
fabricator.
Tenet called it
"stunning and deeply disturbing" that the German warning in 2002 to
Drumheller, "if true, was never brought forward to me by anyone." He
said he first
heard doubts about Curveball after the war, and only
learned of the German warning
from the presidential commission last
month.
A
series of formal warnings should have been "immediately and formally
disseminated"
after the lunch to alert intelligence and policy
officials about the concern, Tenet said.
"No such reports were disseminated, nor do I recall the issue being brought to my
attention," he said.
Tenet
also disputed Drumheller's account of their phone conversation the
night
before Powell's speech. Tenet said he has "absolutely no
recollection" of the CIA
official warning him about Curveball.
"It
is simply wrong for anyone to intimate that I was at any point in time
put on
notice that Curveball was probably a fabricator," he said.
In order to be lying one must be knowingly telling a falsehood. At the time of
this information being given to the public it was thought to be true.
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