Gen. Franks: Evidence Showed WMD Transfer

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Retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who commanded the successful U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, said Thursday that he saw persuasive evidence that Saddam Hussein had transferred his weapons of mass destruction to Syria.

“We saw all kinds of suspicious activity which, all of us could have speculated, meant for certain that weapons were being moved into Syria,” the top military man told WWRL Radio’s Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. Gen. Franks added that while he “never saw anything that was absolutely convincing, the possibility remains” that Saddam’s WMDs were removed.

Franks was responding to claims by his second in command, retired Gen. Michael DeLong, who told Malzberg last year:

“Two days before the war, on March 17 [2003], we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and technical intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 [most wanted] Iraqis, going to Syria.”

Asked about repeated claims by Democrats that President Bush “lied” about Iraq’s WMD’s, Franks told Malzberg:

“There was no one misleading anybody, except that Saddam Hussein took credit with his Arab brothers for having weapons of mass destruction.” The ex-CENTCOM commander was referring to his own conversations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah, each of whom told him that Saddam had apprised them of his WMD capacity and was crazy enough to use it.
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Oh come on gilly, you know that Halliburton is giving him a kick back to say that! And the Saudis built him a house made out of oil!
 
Sorry, I know this is off subject but Gen Franks and Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman ❤️ :cool:

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Oh come on gilly, you know that Halliburton is giving him a kick back to say that! And the Saudis built him a house made out of oil!
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Don’t forget that he and Rice are mindless puppets of the administration with no real thoughts of their own.
 
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aimee:
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Hi Aimee…how are you?..I did not know you could speak french:thumbsup:

Christ is risen…truly he is risen!
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gilliam… i swear, your gonna have a stroke if your not careful…

i would think that GW’s own investigation people wouldn’t have turned in a report saying otherwise…
 
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Hi Aimee…how are you?..I did not know you could speak french:thumbsup:

Christ is risen…truly he is risen!
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Its only a fantasy 😉
 
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Hi Aimee…how are you?..I did not know you could speak french:thumbsup:

Christ is risen…truly he is risen!
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La langue française est très romantique;

Juste comme les officiers… 👍
 
There’s almost as good a chance of finding those WMD’s in the Bermuda Triangle as in Syria.

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aimee:
La langue française est très romantique;

Juste comme les officiers… 👍
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Oh La La…👍

Oui, la langue est tres romantique at savais-tu que St Francois priait en francais toujours et tout le temps? 😃
 
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There’s almost as good a chance of finding those WMD’s in the Bermuda Triangle as in Syria.

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The Lochness Monster
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Saddam’s WMD’s
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Actually, the theory is they went through Syria to Lebanon and are now in the Bekka Valley.
 
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gilliam:
Actually, the theory is they went through Syria to Lebanon and are now in the Bekka Valley.
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I don’t doubt that this is correct, but if it is, God help my son-in-law’s dad and uncles and aunts. I have no doubt that Syria would have no problem using them on the Lebanese Christians.
 
There is a big difference in saying “the WMDs were not moved to Syria” and “we can’t rule out that they were,” which is what the report says.

Wheher the WMDs are ever found or not, it is a big leap to say that Bush lied about it. Intelligence from every corner indicated that he did. Clinton believed that the WMDs were there. No one raised serious doubts, not the Russians, not even the French, who expressed the belief that he had them, yet didn’t want to do anything to enforce the UN resolutions which Hussein had brought on himself.

Hopefully US intelligence services will be restored to a level of competence as the Bush admin restorses some of the funding for intelligence that was cutback during the Clinton years.
 
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There is a big difference in saying “the WMDs were not moved to Syria” and “we can’t rule out that they were,” which is what the report says.

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The reports says more than that. The Duelfer report says, “there was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer,” and the CIA “received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved.” These reports “were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation” – especially “given the insular and compartmented nature of the [Saddam Hussein] regime.”
Misreporting the Duelfer report, again

Also see: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein’s weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad. “The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units,” Mr. Shaw said. “Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units.” Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloging the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration.

Also see: Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong (USMC Ret.), who until last September was the No. 2 in command of the Iraq war under Gen. Tommy Franks, revealed Sunday that U.S. military intelligence had determined that weapons of mass destruction were being smuggled out of the country as the U.S. prepared to invade. “I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran,” Gen. DeLong told WABC Radio’s Steve Malzberg… “Two days before the war, on March 17 [2003], we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and technical intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 [most wanted] Iraqis, going to Syria,”

And In October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, revealed that vehicle traffic photographed by U.S. spy satellites indicated that material and documents related to Saddam’s forbidden WMD programs had been shipped to Syria before the war. It was no surprise that the United States and its allies had not found stockpiles of forbidden weapons in Iraq, Clapper told a breakfast briefing given to reporters in Washington.

Contrary to what a lot of people commonly think, WMD were found in Iraq. 155mm artillery projectiles with Sarin and mustard agent, and battlefield rockets with CW were found. These finds are ignored because they were old munitions from Gulf War I. But the real issue is that they were still not accounted for in contravention of UN resolutions. Also it is public knowlege that tons of “pesticides” were hidden in underground bunkers. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that dual use chemicals hidden in ammo bunkers may be there for military use.
 
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