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Try to look at it from Saddam's position...jfuh said:According to Gen. Georges Sada, Saddam's former #2 in the airforce. Iraq's WMD's are in Syria. Source Gen Sada also documents this in his book "Saddam's Secrets".
I believe much of what Sada claims in his book. But the problem I have with this are as follows.
1) No fly zone, what the hell was the US enforcement doing?
2) Why did the US not go right into Syria?
3) Why with Saddam longing to go all out against the US, had he had WMD's not use them against the invading military? Simply to embarass the US? Just doesn't make sense.
Now all of the regulars on this site know that I'm against the war because of the fraudulant information. Not what all of you know is that I was a hardcore supporter of the war prior to the invasion. When Saddam was caught I recall coming across a news article that claimed that it was Syria that gave up Saddam because of a deal struck between the US and Syria with regards to sanctions that were to be impossed.
Any other of you remember this story with Syria?
The whole cry wolf thing is why I was in full support of taking out the guy. Not to mention the "slam dunk" deal proposed by tenant.cnredd said:Time after time after time the world balked about doing anything against him...total "cry wolf" syndrome...
When 2003 came along, did you honestly think he was thinking the US would actually do something active instead of something passive?...They didn't the first 879 times...Saddam didn't think Bush had the nads to go through with it...He was relying on the Feingolds, Pelosis, and Kennedys to stop it for him...
A slight miscalculation on his part...
He was under the impression that he could move the evidence that would destroy him, and when the 2002/2003 inspectors left, he'd continue right along doing the same thing he was doing for the last two decades...telling everybody what a good little boy he's been...
Had he known GWB wasn't pulling punches like the last two administrations, he probably would've took Egypt up on their offer of asylum...But he was gambling that GWB would do the same thing the last two administrations did and put on the brakes...
He tried to call the US's bluff like he did multiple times before...
One problem...This time, it wasn't a bluff...
A) It wasn't until "hours before the invasion happened" that Saddam realized that this time it was not a drill...jfuh said:The whole cry wolf thing is why I was in full support of taking out the guy. Not to mention the "slam dunk" deal proposed by tenant.
However here's the problem. According the Gen. Sadar, the weapons were moved just hours before the invasion happened. They were flown out from Baghdad to Syria.
Now this doesn't quite seem to go along with that logic of calling the bluff.
Also Syria? Why are we not bombing the living daylights out of those terrorists? I mean there's really no doubt about Syria's roll in terrorism.
jfuh said:Also Syria? Why are we not bombing the living daylights out of those terrorists? I mean there's really no doubt about Syria's roll in terrorism.
cnredd said:As to why we're NOT bombing Syria?...I simply don't know...I personally endorse it...
If any future unilateral act of pre-emptive strike, Syria by far outranks the others. Syria is actively the terrorist go to state.oldreliable67 said:Despite all of our vaunted technology, and despite the testimony of two Iraqi generals, one suspects that we still don't know for sure whether Saddam secreted WMDs in Syria. Remember, the lack of human intelligence continues to be one of our biggest problems in the ME. With the assistance of friends the Russkys, terrorist groups and Russky client states long ago learned to time their movements according to the fly-by schedule of surveillance satellites. We can monitor truck convoys and flights, but we can't see inside and check out the contents without some Mark I eyeballs on the scene.
As much as we'd like to see the Assad regime in Syria done away with and a concomitant move toward representative government, we simply don't have the justification to unilaterally do so - yet.
According to Gen. Georges Sada, Saddam's former #2 in the airforce. Iraq's WMD's are in Syria. Source Gen Sada also documents this in his book "Saddam's Secrets".
I believe much of what Sada claims in his book. But the problem I have with this are as follows.
1) No fly zone, what the hell was the US enforcement doing?
2) Why did the US not go right into Syria?
3) Why with Saddam longing to go all out against the US, had he had WMD's not use them against the invading military? Simply to embarass the US? Just doesn't make sense.
vandree said:I have several problems with this account.
1. why wouldn't those same pilots tell the story to the American authorities?
2. At the time the region was full of intelligence officers from several countries, all the eyes were in Iraq, spy planes were flown in the region, yet we are to believe that they didn't notice any weird movement in Iraq nor Syria (let's keep in mind that once in Syria those WMD had to be hidden somewhere)
3. The whole idea of one country transfering his WMD to another I think is pretty silly in the first place. Who is to say that Syria wouldn't use those same weapons against Iraq, knowing at that point that Iraq has none? And why would a foreign country accept them when all the eyes of the world are on the region?
jfuh said:According to Gen. Georges Sada, Saddam's former #2 in the airforce. Iraq's WMD's are in Syria. Source Gen Sada also documents this in his book "Saddam's Secrets".
I believe much of what Sada claims in his book. But the problem I have with this are as follows.
1) No fly zone, what the hell was the US enforcement doing?
2) Why did the US not go right into Syria?
3) Why with Saddam longing to go all out against the US, had he had WMD's not use them against the invading military? Simply to embarass the US? Just doesn't make sense.
Now all of the regulars on this site know that I'm against the war because of the fraudulant information. Not what all of you know is that I was a hardcore supporter of the war prior to the invasion. When Saddam was caught I recall coming across a news article that claimed that it was Syria that gave up Saddam because of a deal struck between the US and Syria with regards to sanctions that were to be impossed.
Any other of you remember this story with Syria?
vandree said:I don't think his claim is credible at all. He claims that Saddam Hussein took advantage in June 2002 of the collapse of a dam in Syria to transfer his WMD. Saying that he was sending humanitarian help, he converted two civilian planes and made 16 flights to transwer the WMD. Now Gen Sada says that the source of his info is the pilots of the two planes.
I have several problems with this account.
1. why wouldn't those same pilots tell the story to the American authorities?
2. At the time the region was full of intelligence officers from several countries, all the eyes were in Iraq, spy planes were flown in the region, yet we are to believe that they didn't notice any weird movement in Iraq nor Syria (let's keep in mind that once in Syria those WMD had to be hidden somewhere)
3. The whole idea of one country transfering his WMD to another I think is pretty silly in the first place. Who is to say that Syria wouldn't use those same weapons against Iraq, knowing at that point that Iraq has none? And why would a foreign country accept them when all the eyes of the world are on the region?
I also think you are answering your own questions. There is no way the transfer would have gone unnoticed. If the intelligence agencies were that bad, we may as well get rid oof them!
That's the real problem isn't it? No one knows or mentions about it. Just how good are "spy" planes in recognition of threats? So many failed recon. Top notch equipment, pilots second to none. Is it really just as simple as overpaid pencil pushers with no idea where to look and what to look for?GySgt said:1) Wouldn't know
Yes this I rememberGySgt said:2) A couple weeks after we took Baghdad, we were told to be prepared to move towards Syria. It never happened.
I think this was also the exact idea that OBL and other religoius fanatics had. Seems like we gave them the perfect gift when we only sent so few in to secure.GySgt said:3) Saddam was smart. He knew that the only thing that would save him from the coalition in the "Gulf War" was to incite Muslim anger everywhere over an Israeli military strike, hence his scud missiles striking Israel instead of U.S. military forces. He wished to make it a religious war for Muslims everywhere.
See this really just doesn't make sense. For a guy that is cornered, lost everything and clear to be captured sooner or later.......GySgt said:In OIF, he knew that if he used chemical weapons against U.S. forces, he would finally prove to the world that he has them and that he was everything that he was accused of being. Most of us, though prepared for it, were not expecting a WMD strike. He was trapped in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario.
I'm probably the most liberal poster thus far in this thread. Read post #1.PeteEU said:Does anyone have any proof that Saddams WMD are in Syria?
So far I have seen right wing blogs and sites with a clear agenda (rubber stamping the Iraqi invasion), wishfull thinking from high level Bush administration officals (Cheney and Rumsfeldt and thier neo con friends) and a lot of rumors and hearsay for various sources who have a clear agenda in placing Saddams WMD in Syria (like avoiding the death penalty for former Saddam loyalists.. strong motivator).
PeteEU said:Does anyone have any proof that Saddams WMD are in Syria?
So far I have seen right wing blogs and sites with a clear agenda (rubber stamping the Iraqi invasion), wishfull thinking from high level Bush administration officals (Cheney and Rumsfeldt and thier neo con friends) and a lot of rumors and hearsay for various sources who have a clear agenda in placing Saddams WMD in Syria (like avoiding the death penalty for former Saddam loyalists.. strong motivator).
cnredd said:Try to look at it from Saddam's position...
1991...Nobody invaded...They stopped short and left him in power as the UN mandated...
1991...They threw sanctions on him that he didn't give a rat's *** about...
1994...He threw UN inspectors out of his country...no retaliation...
1998...He threw UN inspectors out of his country...no retaliation...
1998...Clinton dropped missiles during a Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions commercial break...didn't do crap...
1998...Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act, which states te US will do everything in our power EXCEPT force...
The whole 12 years...Total defiance of UN resolutions...no retaliation...
Now put yourself in Saddam's shoes...
Time after time after time the world balked about doing anything against him...total "cry wolf" syndrome...
When 2003 came along, did you honestly think he was thinking the US would actually do something active instead of something passive?...They didn't the first 879 times...Saddam didn't think Bush had the nads to go through with it...He was relying on the Feingolds, Pelosis, and Kennedys to stop it for him...
A slight miscalculation on his part...
He was under the impression that he could move the evidence that would destroy him, and when the 2002/2003 inspectors left, he'd continue right along doing the same thing he was doing for the last two decades...telling everybody what a good little boy he's been...
Had he known GWB wasn't pulling punches like the last two administrations, he probably would've took Egypt up on their offer of asylum...But he was gambling that GWB would do the same thing the last two administrations did and put on the brakes...
He tried to call the US's bluff like he did multiple times before...
One problem...This time, it wasn't a bluff...
aquapub said:Saddam studied Milosevic's conduct at trial very closely and has thus far duplicated it (hopefully he will finish off the same way too). He wouldn't have used his WMD (which we know he had after watching him use some of them on to commit genocide) on the U.S. forces because that would have justified everything we were doing in the eyes of the world. He is smarter than that.
jfuh said:That's the real problem isn't it? No one knows or mentions about it. Just how good are "spy" planes in recognition of threats? So many failed recon. Top notch equipment, pilots second to none. Is it really just as simple as overpaid pencil pushers with no idea where to look and what to look for?
GySgt said:Fact:
I do not know why it has not been made public. I can only make an educated guess about it. The last thing the world wants to see is another American invasion into another Muslim country. There are other ways to deal with problems other than direct military response. Also, with the implications of a European country (not France) that was involved with equipment that could be used to develop WMD, there is diplomatic conflicts involved. I do not know the name of this country (No intel report I have read names it), but based on what I saw and came across in Iraq, I could also make another educated guess.
GySgt said:...
We spend billions of dollars on equipment, personel and their training, and on intelligence gathering. We are very, VERY good, but we are not adapting to today's world as fast as our enemy is moving. During the "Cold War" a satellite image was all we needed to strike our enemy. What good is a satellite image against Radical Islam?
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I hear you, but that's the big issue. The mentality that we can "out buy" the enemy. where as the enemy is hardly spending any money, yet effectively causing enough fear and panic that we're changing all our principles and fighting into thier ideology. Sad.GySgt said:they are facing forwards and trying to fight today's battles while clinging to "Cold War" tactics. Our enemy has us at an advantage in that respect. We spend billions of dollars on equipment, personel and their training, and on intelligence gathering. We are very, VERY good, but we are not adapting to today's world as fast as our enemy is moving.
You know I brought up intelligence as a failur because look at the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kosovo? Old maps? Any satellite image would've seen that there was a Chinese flag flying over the embassy.GySgt said:During the "Cold War" a satellite image was all we needed to strike our enemy. What good is a satellite image against Radical Islam? We had it all figured out during the "Cold War" ...then the world changed. Instead of facing another superpower, we found oursleves up against atavistic hatreds and passions academics had declared vanquished: religious fanaticism, ethnic prejudices, nationalism, genocide, etc.
jfuh said:I hear you, but that's the big issue. The mentality that we can "out buy" the enemy. where as the enemy is hardly spending any money, yet effectively causing enough fear and panic that we're changing all our principles and fighting into thier ideology. Sad.
jfuh said:You know I brought up intelligence as a failur because look at the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kosovo? Old maps? Any satellite image would've seen that there was a Chinese flag flying over the embassy.
GySgt said:Kicking their *** is easy. We are doing that everywhere in many countries that many are not even aware of. Despite still being a loosely organized entity Al-Queda and many local organizations are, indeed, fratcured. However, the true battle field against Radical Islam is in the IO war. We are losing and have been for over a decade. Fundamental Islamists have the far advantage being the local "heroes" of their oppressed and highly religious civilization.
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