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  • Posted By: John Dough @ 08/11/2009 10:53:52 PM

    Amen and if they repeal the 22nd amendment Bill will be back and Obama gone like VINCE FOSTER

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 08/11/2009 10:48:28 PM

    Where are Iraq's WMD you ask?

    The answer is not "Iraq's WMD program ceased to exist after the Gulf War",no the answer is "Iraq's WMD has been moved to Syria."

    Now it would be easy to write off this thread as another attack on a "radical islamic state", but the facts speak for themselves.

    Why did we catch Uday and Qusay? Because they were expelled from Syria back into Iraq

    If Syria is willing to transport human cargo out of Iraq what would stop them from taking on the WMD of the former regime.

    This is not a crackpot theory but a well documented event.



    Nizar Nayuf (Nayyouf-Nayyuf), a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper ???De Telegraaf,??? that he knows the three sites where Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are kept. The storage places are:

    1- Tunnels dug under the town of al-Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria. These tunnels are an integral part of an underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels.

    -2- The village of Tal Snan, north of the town of Salamija, where there is a big Syrian air force camp. Vital parts of Iraq's WMD are stored there.

    -3-. The city of Sjinsjar on the Syrian border with the Lebanon, south of Homs city.










    Nayouf writes that the transfer of Iraqi WMD to Syria was organized by the commanders of Saddam Hussein's Special Republican Guard, including General Shalish, with the help of Assif Shoakat , Bashar Assad's cousin. Shoakat is the CEO of Bhaha, an import/export company owned by the Assad family.

    In February 2003, a month before America's invasion in Iraq, very few are aware about the efforts to bring the Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq to Syria, and the personal involvement of Bashar Assad and his family in the operation.
    Nayouf, who has won prizes for journalistic integrity, says he wrote his letter because he has terminal cancer.







    Now I am not advocating nation building in Syria

    I have made this thread to defend the reasons we have deposed a despot capable of not only killing millions of his own people but who has endangered and destroyed the lives of Iranians, Israelis, Kuwaitis and Saudis. There is no question that Iraq is better without Saddam and that Asnar al Islam has been disrupted without a terror friendly base. The WMD existed before and after our invasion and not an overblown threat.

    Whether you find yourself a Republican, Democrat, or Independent you must realize that the war in Iraq has clear purpose and justifaction and it is wrong to condemn it as "Haliburtons Escapade".



  • Posted By: John Dough @ 08/11/2009 10:32:54 PM

    Hussien was tried convicted and hanged in Iraqi courts not ours keep yoour own revisionist history to yourself.

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