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UTUSN

(70,725 posts)
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 12:34 PM Dec 2016

So Saddam had "no clue". Neither did Shrub. So why us worry about DRUMPF?!1

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http://nypost.com/2016/12/19/cia-analyst-saddam-hussein-seemed-clueless/
[font size=5] Saddam had no clue what he was doing[/font]

Saddam Hussein was an inept dictator during his final years in charge, thought 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer together and took partial blame for his eventual fall from power after the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a new book by one of the men who interrogated the ex-Iraqi president. ....

Iraq is not a terrorist nation,” Hussein told Nixon during one session. “We did not have a relationship with [Osama] bin Laden, and did not have weapons of mass destruction … and we’re not a threat to our neighbors. But the American president (George W. Bush) said Iraq wanted to attack his daddy and said we had ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ “ ....

Nixon questioned Saddam, he said, it became clear the CIA profile of the Iraqi leader had been wrong on many fronts. ....

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