Belief Continues that WMD'S did NOT Exist
By Kevin Roeten (05/29/07)
Amazingly, some persist in believing that Hussein did NOT have WMD's. On 5/23, the AP admitted that bin Laden had ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks in the US. The intelligence was declassified and could be announced, because all leads were exhausted. And, on 5/26/07, Kelly Kennedy(Army Times) said that cases of the "Gulf War syndrome" revealed to researchers that the root of the problem is sarin gas.
The Homeland Security advisor(Frances Townsend) reiterated that this intelligence simply bolstered the administration’s affirmation that al-Qaeda wants to use Iraq as a staging area to launch terrorist attacks in the US. In 1/05 bin Laden tasked al-Qaeda operative al-Zarqawi(in Iraq), to organize the cell. But al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda’s Iraq operations, was killed in a US air strike in 6/06. How did Bush know about that?
When you read between the lines, bias seems to ooze out of the pages. But the AP story claimed that Bush was trying to ‘defend his war strategy’, and that his claim was only ‘asserted’. We know that the next terrorist attack is not going to be a simple grenade detonation.
Of the 500,000 troops that eventually went to Iraq and served in the Gulf War, the Pentagon(Freedom of Information Act) admitted that as many as 300,000 troops had breathed in small doses of sarin gas. Already 100,000 troops have reported mysterious symptoms. But Hussein remained silent about his possession of WMD’s.
Research released in May showed that 13 soldiers exposed to small amounts of sarin had 5% less white brain matter(connective tissue) than soldiers who had not been exposed(Roberta White/Boston University School of Public Heath). This would make the candidate more susceptible to brain cancer. More information came from knowing troop locations were in the path of a sarin plume unleashed when an Iraqi chemical weapons site was destroyed in Kamisiyah, Iraq, in 1991. But simple math shows that a total of 300,000 troops could not have been in front of that sarin gas plume. Even less complex math explains that some of the 300,000 troops are likely encountering sarin in Iraq in other locations, and at other times(e.g., War on Terror).
Bottom line is that American troops are coming across remnants of WMD’s in Iraq, and it justifies one of the reasons for going into Iraq and shutting Hussein down.
Getting these reports as of late only cemented previously acquired information that sarin had been dumped into the Euphrates just prior to the incursion, that Putin(Russia) had told the US that Hussein had intended to use WMD’s on the US, the terrorist training fuselage at Salman Pak(Baghdad), that 500 projectiles filled with sarin were found buried in Iraq, that UN satellite imagery had proven that Hussein removed WMD equipment from 109 sites, that the US found chemical protective gear that had been issued to Iraqi soldiers prior to the incursion, that documentation for cooperation between bin Laden and Iraqi groups had been found, and that Iraqi General Georges Saddas’ book Saddam’s Secrets revealed how Hussein had secretly shipped WMD’s to Syria before the incursion.
WMD manufacture was known, but it’s difficult to look for the ‘smoking gun’ when that’s exactly what you’re trying to prevent. Bush is paid to ‘connect the dots’. There is likely much more information that exists about al-Qaeda cooperation and WMD manufacture that we haven’t been told yet. It is likely that information that cannot be passed on without direct compromise of sources.
Why would someone risk his own country’s approval, the possibility of his party losing the next presidential election, the seeming approval of half the earth’s countries, the approval of the UN, the lives of over 3000 Americans, and the legacy of a presidency that will go down in history? Maybe Bush knows even more than he’s revealed. Maybe he knows additional American lives must be spent, to save even more later on. Maybe he knows freedom isn’t free. And most of all, maybe he knows he’s right.
Kevin Roeten
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