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Wash Post: Saddam's Last Words To FBI
July 02, 2009 11:25 AM
What did the imprisoned leader of Iraq say while being interviewed by the FBI?
The Washington Post reports this morning (read here) that Saddam Hussein said he let the world think he had weapons of mass destruction because he wanted to keep neighboring Iran on its toes.
Saddam worried that Iran's fanaticism was a growing threat. And as for Osama bin Laden, Saddam saw him as a "zealot".
The US went to war with Iraq over what was perceived to be Saddam's growing arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
Here is the Post this morning on Saddam and FBI agent George Piro who conducted the interviews:
"The threat from Iran was the major factor as to why he did not allow the return of UN inspectors," Piro wrote. "Hussein stated he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for his refusal to allow UN inspectors back into Iraq."
Hussein noted that Iran's weapons capabilities had increased dramatically while Iraq's weapons "had been eliminated by the UN sanctions," and that eventually Iraq would have to reconstitute its weapons to deal with that threat if it could not reach a security agreement with the United States.
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Cheny fabricated the reasons to go into Iraq for several reasons:
1) To try and reinvent history to save an old friend's legacy after he abandoned a whole group of people who stood up for us in the first Gulf War. Bush 1 walked away from an obligation to protect the Kurds and this won us the hatred of everyone in the region. Bush 2 was trying to appease Cheny who knows where the skeletons are buried.
2) Bush 2 and Guilliani were tanking in the polls, Pearl Harbor was too far away so Cheny chose New York City.
3) What better way to hasten Armageddon for religious right zealots?
Posted by: RSM | Jul 6, 2009 8:53:37 AM
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