Apr 08 2008
Syria Home Of Saddam’s WMDs?
The blogosphere is humming with anticipation that an upcoming US-Israeli report on the Israeli attack on a Syrian nuclear weapons facility is tied to the fact Saddam moved his WMDs to Syria (a sister Baathist regime) prior to the US invasion:
An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday.
Big hat tip to Dr Sanity on this one. Dr Sanity also notes a good round up on this over at Shrink Wrapped. And there are some good links provided by Rick Moran at American Thinker. If this pans out it would provide another big upheaval in the American political dynamics, destroying again the naive mantra of the left in this country. This would be another huge blow to the credibility of the Surrendercrats and SurrenderMedia (as if they have any credibility left). You can read my previous posts on Syria and the war on terror here.
dr. sanity…what a f’ing joke.
Feeling insecure again norm? Don’t blame you.
aj…5 years later you are still grasping at straws in order to justify your blind support of the biggest foreign policy blunder in history. and you accuse me of insecurity? i think dr. insanity would call that projection.
AJ, again, I must throw at the obvious caveat. Even if this proves to be true it will create nothing approaching “upheaval” in the American political scene. The left couldn’t care less about the actual truth, only their own. Norm here is living proof.
AJ,
The left will NEVER concede anything on the war as being worth it. They’ve overreached on every single issue from Saddam’s WMD in the past to his terror ties to the fantasy that leaving him in power had no cost to the surge being a failure and on and on and on.
I am thoroughly convinced that losing the war (so Dems can gain politically) is of the utmost importance to them or they wouldn’t overreach so disgustingly on Iraq.
If they merely said the war has been costly and deadly and did so without hyperventilating and smearing this president and our military over and over they’d have a pretty damn convincing argument but they can’t.
Mark78, Spot on…the Vietnam model is all they know. It was their crowning achievement.
75,
Norm represents a dying minority. What you need to see in an upheaval is the moderates and independents distancing themselves from the Norms of the world. And one easy way for that to happen is to have their credibility shot to hell or, even worse, to give Americans the impression these folks on the left lied to them.
That is when you see changes. It is the same driving force that crippled the right over the last few years. America is still waiting to see who turns out to be more correct and can accomplish the most. And they don’t buy into fantasies and wild claims.
By the way, I remain open to any possibility on Saddam’s WMD’s. Maybe they were destroyed during 90s, maybe hidden somewhere, etc. The left has closed their mind, refused to read the Duelfer report and pretend that there weren’t thousands of unnaccounted for munitions that the UN documented them having. Same with bio weapons and recipes. I could get the list out but they’d trudge out the same tired talking points.
The point of this is that Saddam had massive amounts of WMD during 90’s, inspectors documented gobs of it, then they left and much of those things are unaccounted for. Forgive me if I still don’t give our enemies the benefit of the doubt like so many in the antiwar camp. (it’s already happening with Iran now)
AJ, you are well aware that I see the moderate/independent vs conservative argument far different than you do. Comparing Norm’s type of radicalism and “dying minority” to us conservatives is off the mark, to say the least. You don’t want to go down this road, again, do you?
75,
The comparison is fair in that the right basically insulted everyone in the middle for not seeing things as they did, and ended up losing Congress. I expect the left to have a similar problem when all their BS about Iraq and the war on terror are shown to be huge mistakes and lies.
I am not comparing who is better, just that if you insult the intelligence of the middle you end up out of power and on the margins.
Elections don’t lie my friend. The fact the left is self destructing is not evidence the right was right.
75,
BTW, it is the far right that best not go down this path again. If there is one way to grab defeat from the left imploding it is reminding the moderate middle way they turned from the right in the first place.
If you want to save Pelosi and Reid the best way is to stumble again in the minds of those who determine election results.
Some of the documented data has been available for a long time
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/syria/al-safir.htm
AJ, conservatives haven’t gone down any path except the correct one, as they always have. It is the mods and indies who have moved from us, as they always do, much to their dismay and they must always move left to do so. This is nothing new. It’s human nature to look for greener pastures regardless of your current condition. Churchill’s party was rejected right after world war II. They didn’t learn and apparently, neither will Americans, including yourself, I’m afraid. As for the left’s implosion, just who do you think is feeding that fire anyway? Rush and “Operation Chaos”. He seems to be fairly popular despite your warnings of irrelevance.
I guess this picture of soviet vehicles moving stuff out of Iraq prior to the war was them just collecting Saddam’s BBQ sauce they really got to like while stationed there.
BTW all this stuff ended up in Syria at the places in my prior link
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1986/645/1600/syria-iraq-wmd1.jpg
75,
I am conservative, at least I think I am. But it is arrogant ‘true conservatives’ who cannot tolerate differences of opinion who are the reason the GOP is in the minority against a bunch of liberal idiots.
That is NOT the right thing. And you will never change my view because you can’t change the 2006 election results.
And when you get drubbed again in Congress in 2008 you will make up more excuses to continue to wallow in the minority. Suggest you drop this, your not getting anywhere with me or those like me.
AJ, it is not my intention to “change your view”, only to defend my own and those of other conservatives….Let’s face it, J…history is on our side. Moving to the middle has always been disastrous for our party. But that aside, you make the wrong assumptions of “arrogance” or “insult” as you claimed earlier. Much has been made of Rush’s comments regarding John McCain but it is the mods and indies and McCain’s supporters who have misrepresented Rush. Quoting and citing a man’s record is neither arrogant or insulting, it is just fact.
As for getting drubbed (I prefer the term “drummed”), remember who said that. And remember who rejected conservatism to cause it. There’s a reason conservatives win in landslides and mods get beat or sneak through.
Also, one last note and I’ll give you the last word. If you will recall, it was me who asked YOU if you really wanted to go down this subject again. I’ll drop it for amity’s sake but remember who cautioned this line.
“Mark78, Spot on…the Vietnam model is all they know. It was their crowning achievement.”
But the political dinosaur that we call the “Vietnam era liberal” is about to fade into history. The younger generation coming up is actually a lot more conservative than the press gives them credit for. They are actually pretty sick and tired of hearing that same of crap out of the same old people year after year.
aj…the problem is that you guys are so far to the “right” that what you percieve as the middle is still way to the “right” of the rest of the country. i’m a moderate. you guys are extremeists and interventionists, but lack the self-awareness and critical skills to realize it.
LOL! Yeah right norm….
LOL!!
Norm’s a moderate!! Who knew?