Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria

I said this all along, we always knew he moved them, always, because we knew they existed. It won't make a difference to the party of sedition. It was never about WMD, it was always about undermining the Republican party at the expense of this country, no matter what the cost or tragic consequence. Think about that. Party before country, my ass.

                   Saddam’s WMD Moved to Syria

   Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.    The assertion comes as President Bush said yesterday that much of the intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was incorrect.

   The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. “He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria,” General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. “No one went to Syria to find it.”

   From July 2002 to June 2005, when he retired, General Yaalon was chief of staff of the Israel Defense Force,the top job in the Israeli military, analogous to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the American military. He is now a military fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He made similar, but more speculative, remarks in April 2004 that attracted little notice in America; at that time he was quoted as saying of the Iraqi weapons, “Perhaps they transferred them to another country, such as Syria.”

Just how seditious is the left? From the Cato Institute

The New Terror Threat: Hippies?

“Pentagon officials said [Wednesday] they had ordered a review of a program aimed at countering terrorist attacks that had compiled information about U.S. citizens, after reports that the database included information on peace protesters and others whose activities posed no threat and should not have been kept on file,” according to The Washington Post. In “Protecting Privacy in the Database Nation,” Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., a Cato adjunct scholar, writes: “The most pressing threat to liberty is a compulsory database encompassing everyone. [I]nvoluntary data-mining would permit real-time monitoring of our whereabouts, movements and transactions. This is a Big Brother scenario, one of constant surveillance or harassment of citizens unrelated to addressing terrorist threats."

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Comments

[Chip]

"The most pressing threat to liberty is a compulsory database encompassing everyone."

Like a credit report? Property records? Drivers licences / ID cards? Social Security numbers?

I'd think it's government with absolute power, not the mere existence of information.

[Mypetgloat]

"Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says"

That's highly dubious considering Israel (# 2 in U.S. military aid with Columbia being # 1) provided absoultely no ground support for either Gulf War 1 or 2
-Or any war for that matter.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm

http://www.centcom.mil/Operations/Coalition/joint.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Willing#Coalition_members

Maybe you should go back to beating that Tuwaitha drum.

[neverforget]

They were asked to not get involved.

[Adron Hall]

Ok, you have all this Atlas Shrugged stuff, and you fly in the face of objectivist philosophy left and right.

First of all, your buddy Bush is by NO MEANS a free-market advocate (a primary tenat of objectivism), he's slapped tariffs here and there and threatened this and that, supported unions, and done many other things. From an objectivist viewpoint this is much worse than his whole "Iraq War" boondoggle.

Second of all, you have written more in this BLOG about limiting people's liberties, and encroaching on specifically the US Citizen and his or her rights, privacy, and other dear rights that we ALL should and could have. The Patriot act does NOT help the situation, then you wanting and encouraging a national database of person's data? wtf is up with that.

I started reading your BLOG because you where at the time pointing out some obvious issues with the left, but as an objectivist I'm left with a sour taste in my mouth from reading your rightist racket. Your flinging of the word fascist is no better than the left screaming about Bush the Nazi.

At least we all agree the Nazi's are and where bad people.

But your encouragement of the encroachment of our freedoms by the Government is horribly illogical and disgusting.

Fact: The Government will NEVER win the war against terrorism. NEVER. This is a sad thing to consider but the only thing it CAN do is step aside and let a laissez-faire marketplace (namely America's) overtake and basically destroy the pathetic excuse of a cultural lifestyle the middle east has. It would happen, but war only impedes it from occurring.

Disgusting that you desecrate Ayn Rand's name by associating with the title Atlas Shrugs.

Re-read Atlas Shrugs a few times, maybe you'll notice that privacy and freedom are rather important to the productive class.

[neverforget]

He's not our buddy. He is our president.