Steve Boggess
Saddam Hussein planned to rebuild WMD arsenal
By Steve Boggess
Recently, it was discovered, through audiotapes that Saddam was indeed planning to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction arsenal, which he was doing all during the nineties and former president Clinton's administration.
In an article that was published in the Washington Times we learn that in addition to the captured tapes, United States officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi documents that tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-nineties.
Is this the same yellow cake uranium that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson falsely denied that he found when he went to Niger in 2002? Incidentally, Mr. Wilson is also the former director of Africa policy for the National Security Council.
According to a government official familiar with the declassification process, in one of the tapes, an Iraqi official tells Saddam: "The factories are present." This is but one of the tapes that were made in the 1990's by the former dictator while the United Nations weapons inspectors were searching for Baghdad's remaining stocks of weapons of mass destruction.
The aid to Saddam goes on to say: "The factories remain, in the mind they remain. Our spirit is with us, based solely on the time period. Inspectors take note of the time period, they can't account for our will." The quote is from roughly twelve hours of taped conversations that unexpectedly came to the attention of a former Army warrant officer and Arabic speaker Bill Tierney, who was translating for the FBI tapes unearthed in Iraq after the invasion.
Mr. Tierney made a copy, which he provided to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This is the same intelligence committee in which Democrats John D. Rockefeller (W.VA,) Russ Feingold (Wis,) Dianne Feinstien (CA,) and Carl Levin (Mich) among others are members. The committee in turn gave a copy to intelligence analysts who authenticated the voice as that of Saddam.
Bill Tierney also said: "The tapes show that Saddam rebuilt his program and prevented the United Nations weapons inspectors from finding out about it." Mr. Tierney added that the quote from the Saddam aide, and scored of others, show that Saddam was rebuilding his once ample weapons stocks.
There also exists a quote from the dictator himself, who ordered the tapings to keep a record of his inner sanctum discussions, that Mr. Tierney thinks shows Saddam planned to use a proxy to attack the United States.
Saddam is heard on the tape saying: "Terrorism is coming with the Americans. With the Americans two years ago, not a long while ago, with the English I believe, there was a campaign with one of them, that in the future there would be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction."
The CIA's (Central Intelligence Committee) Iraq Survey Group completed a lengthy postwar inspection. It concluded that Iraq did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded in March 2003.
According to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, there is more to come. He said: "The Iraq Survey Group, they were lied to in a very systematic way. Lying, the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein were good at it."
Democrats are still crying out for proof of the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam lied his way out of. Interesting thing is, those same Democrats are members of the same intelligence committee that saw the same proof that Bush did.
© Steve Boggess
Recently, it was discovered, through audiotapes that Saddam was indeed planning to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction arsenal, which he was doing all during the nineties and former president Clinton's administration.
In an article that was published in the Washington Times we learn that in addition to the captured tapes, United States officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi documents that tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-nineties.
Is this the same yellow cake uranium that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson falsely denied that he found when he went to Niger in 2002? Incidentally, Mr. Wilson is also the former director of Africa policy for the National Security Council.
According to a government official familiar with the declassification process, in one of the tapes, an Iraqi official tells Saddam: "The factories are present." This is but one of the tapes that were made in the 1990's by the former dictator while the United Nations weapons inspectors were searching for Baghdad's remaining stocks of weapons of mass destruction.
The aid to Saddam goes on to say: "The factories remain, in the mind they remain. Our spirit is with us, based solely on the time period. Inspectors take note of the time period, they can't account for our will." The quote is from roughly twelve hours of taped conversations that unexpectedly came to the attention of a former Army warrant officer and Arabic speaker Bill Tierney, who was translating for the FBI tapes unearthed in Iraq after the invasion.
Mr. Tierney made a copy, which he provided to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This is the same intelligence committee in which Democrats John D. Rockefeller (W.VA,) Russ Feingold (Wis,) Dianne Feinstien (CA,) and Carl Levin (Mich) among others are members. The committee in turn gave a copy to intelligence analysts who authenticated the voice as that of Saddam.
Bill Tierney also said: "The tapes show that Saddam rebuilt his program and prevented the United Nations weapons inspectors from finding out about it." Mr. Tierney added that the quote from the Saddam aide, and scored of others, show that Saddam was rebuilding his once ample weapons stocks.
There also exists a quote from the dictator himself, who ordered the tapings to keep a record of his inner sanctum discussions, that Mr. Tierney thinks shows Saddam planned to use a proxy to attack the United States.
Saddam is heard on the tape saying: "Terrorism is coming with the Americans. With the Americans two years ago, not a long while ago, with the English I believe, there was a campaign with one of them, that in the future there would be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction."
The CIA's (Central Intelligence Committee) Iraq Survey Group completed a lengthy postwar inspection. It concluded that Iraq did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded in March 2003.
According to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, there is more to come. He said: "The Iraq Survey Group, they were lied to in a very systematic way. Lying, the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein were good at it."
Democrats are still crying out for proof of the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam lied his way out of. Interesting thing is, those same Democrats are members of the same intelligence committee that saw the same proof that Bush did.
© Steve Boggess
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