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January 24, 2008
Saddam Lied To Freak Out The Iranians
My first reaction to this was, "Of course!" My second reaction was, "Finally, some vindication for the experts who have been saying this for years!"
60 MINUTES -- Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.
The White House knowingly used Saddam's bluff as actual evidence of WMD. The awfulness is staggering. Even after all these years.
And of course the wingnuts are crying bullshit.
Posted By Bob Cesca | January 24, 2008 04:08 PM | DIGG ME!
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They still seem worried that if Iran suddenly had nuclear weapons, they would start looking for someone to nuke. Isn't it pretty clear by now that if anyone drops a nuke anywhere on the globe, a fair portion of the fallout is going to rain down on us all? Or is there some new and improved nuke that has special Border Respecting Fallout that I don't know about?
That's what depresses me when I hear "all options are on the table" from our semi-evolved simian (to borrow one of my favorite phrases from Douglas Adams). He has to at least be aware that nuking any country, even with tactical nukes, would come back to haunt us all. He is aware, right?
In any case, Saddam Hussein was, it seems, completely unaware of what Dick Cheney and his rotten-hearted cabal have been trying to get accomplished for the last 20 years. We were going in. There was no stopping it. Even if he'd allowed inspectors EVERYWHERE, it was going down.
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at January 24, 2008 05:00 PM
If this is indeed true, then it will be remembered for decades and make the Iraq war and our current bullying of Iran look even worse than it already does.
Posted by: J M Ashby at January 24, 2008 10:11 PM
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