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| NY Times: Saddam's Generals Believed They Had WMD to Repel US |
| Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
by Jim Kouri, CPP
The New York Times reports that just prior to the United States lead invasion, Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein informed his top generals that
he had destroyed his stockpiles of chemical weapons three months before
their war plans meeting.
According to the Times report, the generals all believed Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction and were counting on the WMD to repel the
oncoming coalition invaders.
While reporting on this story, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said he
is not surprised that the CIA and other nations believed Saddam had WMD
since Hussein's own generals believed they had them. He said that this
proves President Bush did not lie and that he believed what Saddam's
own generals believed -- that Iraq possessed stockpiles of WMD.
O'Reilly also rhetorically asked when the Democrat Senators Reid,
Kennedy, Durbin and others would apologize for calling President Bush a liar
about WMD. He also asked when liberals such as Barbara Streisand,
Jessica Lange and other would apologize to Bush for calling him a liar.
According to the Times story, Saddam Hussein wanted the world to
believe he possessed WMD in order to create fear and thwart any war plans by
the US. The revelation that Saddam's generals believed they would use
WMD against American, British and other invading forces explains why the
US military found protective gear had been issued to Iraqi soldiers.
The top commanders wanted their troops protected from the WMD they
intended to use.
"The Iraqi dictator was so secretive and kept information so
compartmentalized that his top military leaders were stunned when he told them
three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction,
and they were demoralized because they had counted on hidden stocks of
poison gas or germ weapons for the nation's defense, " stated the New
York Times on March 12.
The Times story supports the testimony of two former Iraqi generals who
said that prior to the war, Saddam was in possession of WMD.
Contact:jkouri@thenma.org |
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