CNN covered up Saddam Hussein's crimes, before the war started Options

[Cpt. Snot Rocket]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73a_1181328755

[Cpt. Snot Rocket]

Mr. Hellfighter,

I was not pursuing a comment or fight about the war or CNN with you dear Sir.. I found this to be interesting to some degree. You were aware of this but maybe not all are. I surely know some who weren't. CNN protected the workers by covering up information. Good, i agree with that. But, just the fact that they had to take these measures to protect themselves is news in itself.

I was reading some of the final report on IRAQ by the weapons inspectors and it is quite interesting how intense Saddam was pursuing WMD's.
Just last week, one of Saddams associates explained that while they publically proclaimed to not have WMD's, they intentionally leaked information that they did have them as a show of force to Iran.
This helps explain why so many reports from different intelligence groups continually reported that Saddam had WMD's.

This post has been edited by Cpt. Snot Rocket: 11/27/07 8:13pm

[Hellfighter]

Mr. Hellfighter,

I was not pursuing a comment or fight about the war or CNN with you dear Sir.. I found this to be interesting to some degree. You were aware of this but maybe not all are. I surely know some who weren't. CNN protected the workers by covering up information. Good, i agree with that. But, just the fact that they had to take these measures to protect themselves is news in itself.

I was reading some of the final report on IRAQ by the weapons inspectors and it is quite interesting how intense Saddam was pursuing WMD's.
Just last week, one of Saddams associates explained that while they publically proclaimed to not have WMD's, they intentionally leaked information that they did have them as a show of force to Iran.
This helps explain why so many reports from different intelligence groups continually reported that Saddam had WMD's.

All my point is, what your original post had to do with War of Terror Mr.Rocket.... your follow-up post brings up another pertinent issue suddenly [ regarding the lied about WMD program accounts by defectors ] which was nowhere mentioned before.

You say "how intense Saddam was pursuing WMDs". Here's where you fall into the trap of neocons and Bushy admins claims. I say again. Those defectors were liars and/or in cahoots with neo-con schemers to play up the wmd fear. The CIA were stunned that the neocons made wild claims about CIA 'shakey' reports of the WMD 'possibility' at best. They hardly recommended Bush used the gathered intelligence as a point to go to war on the basis of imminent threat. This is all not a hidden secret. This is open general knowledge for the last several years. Just the fact you say 'many reports' is nothing new in the intelliegence world. You must show solid proof if one is using it to make a large scaled war. Can you show it? I think Bush, Cheney and Rice should've been more picky on the report of 'Bin Laden planning to fly planes into buildings' they received in their admin's opening months of office pre-9.11 -especially since all the neo-cons have been harping in recent years how Billy-boy Clinton wasn't doing enough against bum-laden.


Therefore, ->Where is you your proof of "intensely pursuing" - at that so-called advanced level in a supposed program like that you must be able to show evidence -especially as the basis for sending young men and women/family folk off to die in a war. You've mentioned me and my 'there we have it' reasons for heckling Bush and his war adventure supporters [which I was originally for] but my whole point is these idiotic personal crusades that are founded on schemes and false bravado cost innocents their lives, lifelong injuries, mental traumas -hundreds of thousands of them... not to mention relatives/friends comforting them or deprived of them. When you have events like WW2 everyone chips in knowing the stakes and whatever costs are needed to prevail over madmen, but these OTHER trumped-up war adventures should be left back in the times of Napoleon and colonialism.

I'm not trying to 'win' in these debates.... if someone has evidence proving otherwise to my own claims I'll be glad for the enlightenment. But my view revolves around info I pick up revealing the big 'dupe' shoved onto a mostly trusting audience by the Bush admin -and you're tempted to say it's an american issue I know, but this war is affecting us all -particularly in the war's early stages when al quaeda was making global attacks related to events in the war and against coalition allies.... not to mention terror plots revealed in Canada and UK and elsewhere by minion terrorists who were themselves aroused by war-fervour.

Here are reports about WMD 'threats'. I chose some older dated reports to show you that this revelation is nothing new - what's worse amongst all this is Bush's part in protecting those swine in his admin who leaked the identity of a CIA operative in reprisal for how her 'political' husband was taking pains to reveal how the WMD threat was being over-inflated [ie, the Iraqi Uranium enrichment connection to Niger ].

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6062401081.html
http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AFP/2004/07/09/...47?&pbl=222
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1121/dailyUpdate.html

HF


This post has been edited by Hellfighter: 11/28/07 6:12am