You know the "Saddam Tapes" the Freepers have been drooling over...

[sabra]

First this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/20/AR2006032001566.html

Saddam's foreign minister was CIA source: NBC
Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the period before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Naji Sabri, was a secret paid source of the CIA, "NBC Nightly News" reported on Monday.

Citing unnamed current and former U.S. intelligence officials, NBC said Sabri provided details of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be more accurate than CIA estimates.

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According to the intelligence sources, Sabri indicated that Saddam had no significant weapons program and that while the deposed Iraqi leader desperately wanted a nuclear bomb it would have taken more time for him to build one than the CIA's several-months-to-a-year estimate, NBC reported.

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Sabri declined to be interviewed or to comment as did the CIA, NBC said, adding that the agency also would not say why it did not listen to Sabri's warnings.

and then today from AP:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142941149269&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

'We don't have anything hidden,' documents have Saddam saying
Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Exasperated and besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to the world they'd given up banned weapons.

"We don't have anything hidden!" the frustrated Iraqi president interjected at one meeting, transcripts show.

At another, in 1996, Saddam wondered whether UN inspectors would ``roam Iraq for 50 years" in a pointless hunt for weapons of mass destruction. "When is this going to end?" he asked.

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Scores of Iraqi documents seized after the 2003 invasion are being released at the request of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman, Representative Peter Hoekstra, who says he's seeking evidence the Iraqis hid their weapons of mass destruction, or sent them to neighbouring Syria. No such evidence has emerged.

Repeatedly in the transcripts, Saddam and his lieutenants remind one another that Iraq destroyed its chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s, and shut down those programs and the nuclear-bomb program, which had never produced a weapon.

"Everyone thought Saddam had WMD".... ya whatever!

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Hid them in Syria is nothing more than "Wishful thinking"

By the most desperate "Dead-enders"

[deutsey]

2. Unfortunately, this info will not reach the Faithful

All they will hear is the disinfo spewed by Limbaugh, et al., and block this kind of info as coming from the "liberal media."

[savemefromdumbya]

3. I think the US was trying to plant WMDs in Iraq but got caught

I thought I'd bookmarked the article but can't find it?

[JuniperLea]

5. I often thought of that

And I expected them to try it.

[blm]

4. Now WHY isn't the broadcast media discussing this turn of events?

To protect the Bushboy, as usual.

[Roland99]

6. But...but...but...the docs prove Saddam talked to Phillippine Al Qaeda!!

:eyes:

[Javaman]

7. Whooooops! let's just rewind the last 3 years and start over, shall we?

colossal dumb fucking failure*.