Media Ignores Bush Exoneration

On January 28, 2003, President George W. Bush delivered a State of the Union speech  (full text) just 2 months before US troops entered Iraq. In his speech, the President made this statement as further proof that intervention with Saddam Hussein was not only necessary but inevitable:

"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa ."

By October of that same year, those 16 words of the State of the Union address came back to haunt the President when it appeared the intelligence supporting the attempted procurement by Saddam of uranium from Niger was false. Political opponents accused the President of taking the country to war under false pretenses. Hence, "Bush Lied" rhetoric became the standard line of Democrats throughout America and anti-war activists throughout the world.

Since the war in Iraq began in March 2003, US troops have confiscated 3,000 hours of audiotapes of Saddam Hussein chairing his Revolutionary Command Council before the war and 48,000 boxes of records documenting his regime's military activities. In February of this year, the first audio tapes were translation to English and examined after at the February meeting by the International Intelligence Summit.  Some of the findings from Saddam's recordings include:

-Saddam stated Iraq will allow UNSCOM to confirm their erroneous pre-war assessments
-Saddam was confident that Iraq would "overcome" the inspection program
-Saddam pointed out a major advantage – keeping the precursors for chemical weapons separated until needed and they can be explained away as having civilian use.

Removal of Warheads
From Tape ISGC-2003-M0003997:

Saddam:  "Before the hostility, they had information and deductions that we were working in the direction we described, a dangerous direction. Now, we can confirm for them this false direction. I mean, according to the explanation."

Saddam’s WMD Tapes (PowerPoint English) can be accessed at the International Intelligence Summit (scroll 1/2 way down page for full collection of audio and translation to Power Point) 

Now, the Washington Times is reporting that the...

"audiotapes of Saddam Hussein and his aides underscore the Bush administration's argument that Baghdad was determined to rebuild its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction once the international community had tired of inspections and left the Iraqi dictator alone.

"In addition to the captured tapes, U.S. officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi DOCUMENTS THAT TELL OF SADDAM SEEKING URANIUM FROM AFRICA in the mid-1990s."

In other words, the newly translated Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein regime show that PRESIDENT BUSH WAS FACTUALLY ACCURATE WHEN HE TOLD THE NATION IN HIS 2003 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS THAT IRAQ HAD RECENTLY SOUGHT URANIUM FROM AFRICA.

Also, IN this must see interview with Bill O'Reilly, LT GEN Tom McInerney described the tapes on the Fox News Channel, February 21, 2006, and why the Bush administration has not flaunted the tapes publicly:

"Russia, France & China were probably helping the Iraqis with precursors and other materials. They wouldn’t want that because they’re 3 of the 5 permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and they’re looking at the overall war on terror and they’re going to need their help in the future."

In other words, President Bush is too much of a gentleman to embarrass and humiliate 'allies' like Russia and France, despite the assertion from former Iraqi generals and officials close to Saddam claim Russia was key in the removal of WMD from Iraq to Syria.

Finally, President Bush has ordered that this critical evidence confiscated by U.S. forces after they liberated Iraq be made public.  Bush's initial order came on Feb. 16, the day after ABC News broadcast snippets from 12 hours of Saddam audiotapes obtained by FBI translator and former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney.

(Right: SFC Proctor in Baghdad, 2003, Saddam's throne in front of a mural depicting intercontinental ballistic missiles, showing Saddam's intent to use/build WMD arsenal.   Large Photo  Accompanying story)

The evidence on the tapes and documents cannot be denied, even by Bush hating Democrats. Oh, the evidence can and is being ignored, but not denied.  Past statements that confirm the ongoing content released in these tapes are now validated:

Gen. Georges Sada, Saddam Hussein’s former #2 Air Force official (Video Interview on Hannity & Colmes):

"After the Gulf War, he (Gen Amir Rashid Ubaidi, the former Iraqi Deputy Air Force commander) was taken into custody by the Americans and imprisoned in Iraq.   He had been in charge of the ‘superweapons’ program but claimed that Iraq never had chemical weapons or WMDs of any kind; of course, that wasn’t true and he, of all people, knew it."

"Saddam realized, this time, (Operation Iraqi Freedom) the Americans are coming," Mr. Sada said. "They handed over the weapons of mass destruction to the Syrians."

Khidhir Hamza, the highest-ranking Iraqi scientist ever to defect and live to tell about it:

Saddam has a whole range of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological and chemical. The nuclear program is his primary weapon, and that would give him the ability to use the biological and chemical better. According to German intelligence estimates, we expect him to have three nuclear weapons by 2005. So, the window (actually, he’s being careful right now), will close by 2005, and we expect him then to be a lot more aggressive with his neighbors and encouraging terrorism, and using biological weapons. Now he’s using them through surrogates like al Qaeda, but we expect he’ll use them more aggressively then. There could also be the angle of him using nuclear weapons through surrogates also, if he can achieve it.

(Hamza went on to make the al-Qaeda connection in more detail)

Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview in April 2004, confirmed his belief that Saddam's WMD had been moved to Syria. 

 Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, said in an appearance on Israel’s Channel 2 on December 23, 2002:

"Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria."

The list goes on.  The media will eventually be forced to air some of the sensational findings on the Saddam tapes.  These are in Saddam's own words; no matter how they hate it, it IS news and exonerates the President.  Now who's the liar?

Pertinent posts:

WMD Story Ignored by Media
Finding Iraq's WMD
A Soldier's Account of WMD from Saddam's Perspective

Expose the Left Expose the Left

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Comments

[Jose Antunez]

If the WMD are in Syria, why terrorists are not using them against US and UK troops? What are they waiting for?
Why are not US and UK troops invading Syria right now hunting for WMD there? What are they waiting for too?

[Mwalimu Daudi]

This is powerful evidence, Amy! But there may be another reason why the MSM has ignored this story.

Back in the early 1980 (when I was an undergraduate student finishing a bachelors degree in electrical engineering) I became interested in the debate about nuclear power. I was surprised - horrified, actually - at the sensationalism and scientific innacuracy of the MSM back then. There was no Internet, and thus no check on the MSM's power. Journalists alternated dark stories about the dangers of nuclear fission with wildly optimistic (and technically innacurate) stories about solar, wind, and geothermal power. Journalists seem to treat the issue of nuclear power as a boxing match between the bad guys (defenders of nuclear power) and the good guys (environmentalists, etc.). No alternative points of view were allowed.

The debate changed my view of the MSM forever. Never again did I take anything they said at face value. Mistakes of that magnitude are simply not made. Nothing in the 20+ years since has changed my mind.

Amy, it's possible that the MSM lacks the technical expertise to properly evaluate the evidence on Saddam's WMD program. When you add in the liberial bias of the MSM, I don't see how we can expect anything other that the sorry state of journalisn that we have now. Too many modern journalists see left-wing activism and journalism as being the same thing.

[Mwalimu Daudi]

OOPS - I should have said that I was finishing my bachelors degree in the early 1980s, not the year 1980. Forgive my error please!

[Johnny]

Well, you know how I feel, Amy. I wish you'd post a link to that picture of me in Saddam's throne with that ICBM missile painting in the background for those who missed it the first time.

[Amy Proctor]

Here's the link... I'll add it to the original post.

http://www.johnnyproctor.com/sqsp2/thronelarge.jpg

[Timmer ~ Righting America]

AMY -

OUTSTANDING article, my friend! You may find a bit less-than-norml "moonbat activity" on this article - as you point out, the evidence in Saddam's own words is indesputable.

I hope we won't have to wait for the History Books before this comes to widespread public attention.

GREAT JOB!!!

[PCD]

Amy, You realize that the leftists are not going to believe you no matter how much you document your points. They don't believe Saddam was a threat. They only believe that George Bush is the threat to them because Bush won't open the US Treasury and rape the US Taxpayers for fund the Leftist utopia, er the UN and their corrupt officials.

[Trent]

Amy,

Thanks for posting this. I've heard the theory of Saddam relocating the WMD's from Iraq to Syria before. Obviously there's a lot more to that story (if it's true) than that simple scenario, but I find it easy to believe the basic facts of it... esp with Saddam's own lieutenants corroborating it. I could also believe Russia is an accessory of the move considering their increasing with the likes of Iran.

Aside from the conservative Christian angle, one of the reasons I read your blog is that you write about good news (whereas the MSM tends not to as a generality). This is most certainly good news (although I think we can all agree that there were a lot of good reasons for coalition forces to invade Iraq that have nothing to do with WMD's).

Good job!

[georg bush]

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[toni]

Why on earth would the dominent media ever want to correct their agenda of misinformation? That after all would help the "evil bushitler" which is completely out of the realm of possibilities. Hey Johnny, that must be some huge throne, your feet don't reach the floor. That's my normal situation when sitting in regular chairs. lol. I always have to sit on the edge of chairs and in fact today, I flipped a chair which was on wheels. I was so embarassed but thank goodness no one saw me. heh heh

[J Rob]

They could have caught him arming one himself and they would still ignore it. Like Mwalimu I have distrusted the "news media" since the late 70s. Mainly when I would be at an event and read the story in the paper the next time. And I do mean "story". More often than not the accound bore little or no resemblence to what I experienced.

[Fix4RSO]

Sweet! Is there some reason that you are posting about WMDs here, and I am posting about WMDs on my blog? Is there some cyber-psycho connection ... ???

I just found the AP story at 22:18 that there was a recent release of docs from the Administration regarding Saddam and WMD. I found a cute little doc over at the Army doc center at Leavenworth.

Saddam was planning, and authorized, the use of ricin, sarin, and as a kicker, mustard gas. Multiple delivery options were being discussed. Holding the attack (on Iranians) due to there not being enough GAS FOR THEM TO HAVE A RESERVE left over, so they WANTED TO MAKE MORE BEFORE ATTACKING!

Evil comes in many forms. In this case, evil was in a hole in the ground with da spi-dahs!

Take care Amy, love your post, as always!

[jez]

The problem is that we wonder what evidence Bush / Blair had at the time of invasion. We were told the evidence was uncontrivertable, but the dosiers from that time which have since been published were weak.

[Silke]

Amy,

The White House released the National Security Strategy today.

In the section entitled Prevent Our Enemies from Threatening Us, Our Allies, and Our Friends with WMDs it states:

“The Iraq Survey Group also found that pre-war intelligence estimates of Iraqi WMD stockpiles were wrong – a conclusion that has been confirmed by a bipartisan commission and congressional investigations. We must learn from this experience if we are to counter successfully the very real threat of proliferation.”

You can find the statement here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/sectionV.html

[Johnny]

Jez, what is weak here is your caveat. Bush/Blair new damned well that Saddam was a human WMD without a conscience and raw, naked ambition. They had plenty of INTEL; there was also universal agreement that he had or was planning to develop WMD - why else would UN weapons inspectors spend more than a decade playing hide'n'seek with the butcher of Baghdad? Amy is exactly right. The news is coming from Saddam's own mouth and the MSM is chooing to ignore it because it exonnerates the President of the scurrilous charges made by his political enemies. Thay have made themselves irrelevant.

@ J Rob: I have to agree with you! Even catching Saddam in the act isn't good enough for them. I wish these people could have lived in Iraq under Saddam in the 'good ole days'...

Jose', the UK and US have the best "homeland security" in the world, that's why WMD aren't being used on us. I'm sure terrorists would love to As Borimir of the LOTR (Fellowship) said at the council of Elrond, "One does not simply walk into Mordor...." Also, I highly doubt the form of the WMD are as recognizable as you might think. "Saddam's WMD" written across them is probably not realistic. Also, if you were against the US going into Iraq, why would we go into Syria? Just to stir up more Islamic anti-American sentiment? That doesn't seem useful. I think Iran is the biggie on the table.

Mwalimu Daudi, excellent comments! Thanks for sharing that experience. Eye opening indeed. I think your comment about the MSM lacking the technical expertise to properly evaluate the evidence on Saddam's WMD program is also right on the money.

Timmer, I think you may be right that there will be less liberal troll activity in this entry and that's fine by me. Except for "georg bush". This is truly becoming a slam dunk. Liberals are very impat