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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Ok that was odd. It did not post my whole post. Anyway.
As to your latest link. I said in my first post about these weapons, that they were dated. But because we found something that Saddam said he destroyed, and something the UN could not find, but believed were destroyed, gives credence to the reports that said Saddam moved troops and munitions into Syria while we were building up on the south (meaning we think he moved his new stuff into Syria) and that is why we did not find the new stuff. Did you not get that from the two dozen times I said it?
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Or did you miss that million times I provided sources that said that Saddam never had new stuff to even move to Syria?
And the claim made by Georges Sada that WMD's were moved from Iraq to Syria in the guise of a humanitarian effort completely contradicts the Duelfer Report which states:
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Saddam controlled all of the Regime’s strategic decision making.
Saddam’s primary goal from 1991 to 2003 was to have UN sanctions lifted, while maintaining the security of the Regime.
The introduction of the Oil-For-Food program (OFF) in late 1996 was a key turning point for the Regime.
By 2000-2001, Saddam had managed to mitigate many of the effects of sanctions and undermine their international support.
Iran was the pre-eminent motivator [of Saddam's desire to rebuild Iraq's WMD capability].
The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) judged that events in the 1980s and early 1990s shaped Saddam’s belief in the value of WMD.
Saddam ended his nuclear program in 1991. ISG found no evidence of concerted efforts to restart the program, and Iraq’s ability to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program progressively decayed after 1991.
Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq’s WMD capability, after sanctions were removed and Iraq’s economy stabilized. Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability—in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks—but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities.
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Prewar Movement of WMD Material Out of Iraq, stating "ISG judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place" but also acknowledging that "ISG was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war."
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So there you go CDP. A
possibility. But with all the other evidence and so forth, that possibility is very slim indeed. It's just a theory. There are countless other theories out there. I'll stick with the facts though CDP.
Even further actually:
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In media interviews before the agenda was published, officials went further on the important question of the possible smuggling of WMD to Syria, saying they had not seen any information indicating that WMD or significant amounts of components and equipment were transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria or elsewhere.
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