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In reply to the discussion: Oh NOES!1! A South Korean rapper said something bad about our TROOPS!!!11!! [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)are willfully ignorant. Saddam Hussein's son in law defected to Jordan in 1994 and was debriefed there BY U.S. INTELLIGENCE. SH's son-in-law had been in charge of the pre-1990 WMD programs and, when debriefed, said he had personally presided over the destruction of all Iraqi WMD after the conclusion of Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield on SH's express orders. The analysts who debriefed SH's son in law unanimously concluded that he was telling the truth and that all of Iraq's pre-war WMD had been destroyed.
There was no convincing intel after 1994 that SH had resumed his WMD programs. NONE whatsoever, except for the lies cooked up in the Office of Special Plans and stove-piped through Cheney's office to the NY Times and then back to the civilian policy-makers whom you seemingly laud.
In short, the 'intel' you claim existed that analysts got wrong was all 'lies' by charlatans and con artists like Chalabi and Curve Ball. And most people in power knew they were lies, including many of the CIA analysts whom Cheney threatened and intimidated.
So, you're left in a position of endorsing war crimes and crimes against humanity and all based on lies. So, unless you have any links to support your lies masquerading as assertions (you do not), you should just return to whatever NeoCon hole whence you slunk.
I back up my assertions with facts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Kamel_al-Majid.
Read it and weep.