Flashback from late January of 2008 - Saddam wanted to fool world into thinking he had WMD

[ck4829]

Sorry, my example is from a right wing blog.

"I know it will never be enough for the liberal ideologues and the purely partisan politicians, but I hope the 60 Minutes interview and the follow-up articles on Saddam’s interviewer will end the “Bush Lied” nonsense – at least among those political opponents of Bush’s who are fair-minded.

Mr. Piro, an FBI agent assigned to question Saddam over many months, revealed that Saddam deliberately foisted on the world the deception that he had many kinds of weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological and nuclear. This deception took many forms and was carried out because Saddam feared most an attack from Iran, and he thought it was the only thing that would prevent that from happening.

He (Saddam) also told the interviewer that, although he had dismantled his WMD program, he had left in place equipment, scientists and programs so that he could reconstitute his WMD when the world lost interest, and that he intended to do just that.

Another important point we learned from Saddam via Piro was that Saddam expected only a short-lived air attack from the United States, because of the many times the U.S. had, in the past, responded in this manner regardless of the provocation. He was the most surprised man on the planet when the U.S. actually moved troops into Iraq and went after him."

http://www.nowpublic.com/opinions/60-minutes-and-george-piro-end-bush-lied-nonsense

But now, Saddam funded a trip for lawmakers to visit Iraq, These lawmakers who were critics of Bush's plans to invade Iraq. Something doesn't add up here.

[islandmkl]

1. good ol' Saddam's story matched up pretty nice with jr., dickhead and the rummy...

how could we have thought otherwise?

even after all this time??

[Preston120]

2. John Paul II called it an Unjust and Immoral War.

Where was the threat to the United States? What did Iraq have to do with Afghanistan? Somebody was lying. Remember anything about a mushroom clouds? Saddam may have been a bad man, But I remember photos of him and Mr. Rumsfield shaking hands. I remember Mr. Rumsfield saying the war would only cost 50 billion total. Remember, oil sales will pay for reconstruction. Remember Mr Powell saying we know exactly where all these Weapons of Mass Destruction are located? If You Listen to right wing blogs, you end up with right wing bull-Sh##! And I think you should know better.