Israpundit has an interesting writeup of information he got at a lecture last night, including where the WMD are:
4. Russia told Hussein one month before the war to remove all WMD to Syria and told Hussein to make many tapes to be played after. Iraq transported all the WMDs to Syria to be buried in Beka Valley in Lebanon. They did it at night so as not to be detected by Israeli or US satellites. It didn’t help. The satellites were able to detect where soil had been disturbed and put back so the exact location is know. It will come out during elections in the US. Debka first called it.
If this is true, the most disturbing part is Russia telling Saddam to move the WMD. Yes, even more disturbing than holding the info until election time. The latter is politics, which I hate, but the former puts our safety at risk.
Time will tell. It all seems a little too good to be true.
Posted by Justene Adamec at July 24, 2003 09:39 AM | TrackBackUnder the circumstances described, 'politics' appears to mean 'public prevarication,' in which case I don't agree that the Russian yarn is more disturbing. If we don't get overly excited about our own government officials playing hide-and-seek with the truth, then why should we be troubled when a foreign power does it?
Posted by: PJ Cain at July 24, 2003 03:07 PM (Permalink)PJ's obviously one of those "Bush lied, and all evidence to the contrary is irrelevant" school.
Too bad people have to be that way.
I give the President the benefit of the doubt, personally, especially because there's far more reason to give it to him than not.
(Now let's wait for the scoffing. Ah well, that's politics I guess.)
Posted by: Dean Esmay at July 25, 2003 07:49 AM (Permalink)My guess. Pure nonsense. Last week the bloggers blamed the French. Now the Russians. And somehow they believe that Saddam was smart enough to pull off this caper, or any caper, after all evidence is that he never had a clue.
Gosh. If this is true, and something makes me doubt it, it's an enormous can of worms: it means that Russia is actively doing whatever it can to counterbalance U.S. power in the world and, more importantly, to keep the U.S. focused on Iraq so as to give themselves freer reign to assert Russian geopolitical aims elsewhere.
My guess is it's not true, because the cost of getting caught is really, really high: the destruction by the U.S. of a potential Russian client state in Syria and the diplomatic and economic isolation of Russia. Putin is a smidgen too smart to risk it.
If it is true, the fact that it's being hidden from us is a very small drop in a very large geopolitical bucket.
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