Decision ‘08

The Case For The War Strengthens By The Day

I’ve been blogging on the revelations found in the Iraqi document dump, that, while not conclusive, strongly suggest a lot more cooperation between Saddam and bin Laden than we’ve previously suspected. New evidence from the documents, and a French spy in Saddam’s inner circle, suggest that the WMD case was stronger than we’ve been led to believe, as well.

First, Ray Robinson found a previously untranslated document intimating an anthrax attack by Palestinians based in Iraq, with the weapons supplied by Saddam. Sound farfetched? Then consider the following:

Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s last foreign minister, Naji Sabri, was a paid spy for French intelligence, which later turned him over to the CIA to supply information about Iraq and its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs more than six months before the war began in March 2003, according to former senior intelligence officials.

…Publicly Sabri was insisting that Iraq had no prohibited weapons of mass destruction. Privately, the sources said, he provided information that the Iraqi dictator had ambitions for a nuclear program but that it was not active, and that no biological weapons were being produced or stockpiled, although research was underway.

When it came to chemical weapons, Sabri told his handler that some existed but they were not under military control, a former intelligence official familiar with the situation said. Another former official added: “He said he had been told Hussein had them dispersed among some of the loyal tribes.”

The war was the correct decision - for any number of reasons.

Thank God we had the right president at the right time…