HT Atlas Shrugs

Is President Bush's Administration now playing a Rove Trump card openly in the poker game with the French, the Russians, and the Chinese to rein in the Mad Mullahs of Iran?

The Israelis are signaling they will not allow the Mullahs to go nuclear. If that's the card in play, the US is now signaling we will support the Israelis to destroy the Iranians capacity to make nuclear weapons. This would not be good economically for this triad who are tied economically with Iran.

Atlas is breaking with a story of Iraq's WMD's Secreted to Syria.

Rocketsbrain

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In an explosive interview with The New York Sun, the man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein’s air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book,“Saddam’s Secrets,” released this week. The man who served as theGeorge_sada no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein’s air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

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Rocketsbrain has long held that Saddam's nuclear(?)/chem/bio weapons were moved to Syria and to Lebanon's Beka's Valley. This was done by Saddam's Regime in the run to Baghdad. This was aided by the Russians who were desperate that their fingerprints weren't found on any of this material once Iraq was overrun by the US and it's coalition partners.

There have been many pieces of this puzzle that have emerged overtime. All fell off the radar quickly. There was the "accidental" strafing run on the Russian diplomatic convey on a high speed run to the Syrian border when messages were sent what the "approved" exit routes were.

There was a report of four nuclear warheads encased in concrete that were dug up in Iraq. The new Iraqi media reported this but this was immediately given the Jedi wave off, "There's nothing here." This is wild speculation but if they were produced outside of Iraq their origin would be easy to track.

There was a "hot" (radiological) convoy of trucks seized at the Turkish border. Supposedly this was "Jawa" scrappers moving irradiated scrap metal to metal markets over the border. Initial reports indicated this was "very hot" stuff. This story never gained much traction.

There is also the little foray by Zarqawi's minions who were caught enroute to Amman, Jordan, to launch a massive lethal chemical cloud. These chemical agents allegedly were some of Saddam's stocks that were funneled through Syria.

Then of course there have been our "friends" at the UN Security Council led by the French. Mind you there has been speculation that the French co-opted the CYA with the Plame - Wilson affair with a disinformation campaign to cover their tracks on the Niger "yellow cake" and to discredit President Bush.

Further there are reports that the French prevailed upon Turkey to prevent the launch of American forces into Northern Iraq and use of their airspace. The carrot was admission into the EU. Had American forces been allowed to enter from the north through the Sunni Triangle, the Sunni led insurgency would have been significantly less.

And of course there is the "Oil for Food" scandal that high level French officials were up to there armpits in. The top receivers of Saddam's scam were the French, the Russians, and the Chinese (in that order) all permanent members of the Security Council. Further it was the French Ambassador who pulled the rug out from under Secretary Colin Powell at the last minute during UN meetings prior to the invasion. With "friends" like these, who needs enemies. At least French President Chirac appears to be coming around to the dangers of this radical ideology from the Religion of Peace with his threat to use nuclear weapons.

While there has been open turf war between the CIA (CYA'g) and the Office of the President, it's disingenuous that our intel community has remained silent on this. Either they are considerably dumber then the general consensus or there is a bigger political/psy-ops game afoot. The former would mean we are in deep "do do" (ala Michael Jackson).

I would suggest a middle of the road position while we have made many mistakes along the way as Victor Davis Hanson has written many times will occur in war. The key however to winning the war is to learn from them, adapt, take risks but most importantly keep engaging the enemy.

Assuming an US/Israeli raid on Iran is on deck in the immediate future, this may be a trump card that is being held close to the vest. The LL and MSM have been allowed to run with a long rope with the meme, "Bush lied people died." They have been so focused on this like a pack of dogs on a kill; they have not seen what may be in plain sight. Of course OBL, Al-Zawahri and other are consumers of the MSM as they craft their PR responses accordingly and use this as a wedge issue to divide the American people. This administration has done little to dispel this notion that the intel was wrong going into the Iraqi invasion and we continue to bumble through.

Rocketsbrain suggests this "trump card" will be played if it becomes necessary to launch a preemptive strike against the Mad Mullahs of Iran and President MAD. The LL and the MSM will be left dangling in the wind. Praise be to Allah for President MAD in clarifying the aims of Islamofascism ideology much to the chagrin of the mullahs. No wonder planes are "crashing" in Iran and there have been assassination attempts on President MAD, he's been too literal in his statements to the free world. DAMN!

Yes, this is highly speculative, but this is my current read of the tea leaves that gives some meaning to the puzzle pieces.

I will update this piece later today with links to the isolated stories I've mentioned. It will take awhile to find the links again.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!

Rocketsbrain

[ed note: I've corrected some of the grammatical errors in the original post]

Just noticed that Michelle Malkin is on that case as is:

Right Wing Nut House
Powerline
Conservative Culture
The Jawa Report has a whiff.
Spook86 has it too.
Outside the Beltway is puzzled too
So is Weapons of Mass Destruction

Update:

I'm still working on finding the links again to the pieces I mentioned above.

Also the Strata-Sphere is discussing the Plame-Wilson Affair again.

Kobayahi Maru (TREK Reference) has an excellent roundup on the Syrian political scene with references to them holding Saddam's WMDs.

In the meantime here's some info re the credibility of Gen. Sada. Only time will tell. Michelle Malkin linked to this piece by Mark in Mexico that has extensive comments about the Sada:

Georges Hormis Sada graduated from Iraq’s Air Academy in 1959 and was trained by elite forces in Great Britain, Russia and the U.S. An ace fighter pilot who trained other pilots, he went on to become air vice marshal in Saddam Hussein’s military.

Georges Sada was born into an Assyrian Christian family in northern Iraq and became a born-again believer in 1986. Georges had great favor with the former Iraqi dictator, as he is one of the few Iraqi men to ever publicly confront Saddam Hussein and live to tell about it. Georges believes a key reason why he served as one of Saddam’s most trusted advisors was to persuade him against attacking the nation of Israel with chemical weapons, something Saddam attempted to do on two separate occasions.

Now retired, Georges is director of the Iraqi Institute for Peace and also serves as spokesman for the newly elected prime minister of Iraq. He is also the president of the National Presbyterian Church in Baghdad and chairman of the Assembly of Iraqi Evangelical Presbyterian Churches.

In recent years, Georges held the position of principal advisor to the former Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi. Additionally, he acted as the lead consultant for the reconstruction of all three branches of the Iraqi defense system. In June of 2003, Georges received the prestigious International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation presented by the Bishop of Coventry, England.

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