The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace, Discussions of terrorism and <gasp> WMDs!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by The Shadoe

I don't believe that at all.

What possible reason did he have to lie in this scenario? He was having a covnersation with his closest advisors, not standing trial.

Every single bit of conversation in this story confirms exactly what the post-invasion intelligence reports have already discovered. It's over 10 years old. One of the people involved defected and already told the US all of this 10 years ago. All this tape does is confirm the obvious...that Sadaam really really wanted to restart the WMD program, but due to UN oversight could do nothing more than hid what little material he had left until some hypothetical future time when they'd stop watching. Until then, all they could do was leave them burried in the sand. Meanwhile, the facilities were left to deteriorate for the next decade to the point where they had less WMD capabilities than they dd at the end of Desert Storm.

Hell, Negroponte was the Ambassador to the UN when Bush was trying to convince the UN to go after Iraq. If anyone's gonna jump on this to say, "See! They DID have WMD's, we were right! Thake that United Nincompoops!" it'd be Negroponte. But instead he's got a spokeswoman who says, "Uuuuh, yeah, old news."