I'm sure he was paid off to say this though. Republicans probably funneled him some money through the Swiftboat guys, plus you know he's probably just trying to sell a few books. :dis: :dis: :dis: :dis: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/26/161043.shtml Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong (USMC Ret.), who until last September was the No. 2 in command of the Iraq war under Gen. Tommy Franks, revealed Sunday that U.S. military intelligence had determined that weapons of mass destruction were being smuggled out of the country as the U.S. prepared to invade. "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran," Gen. DeLong told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, while discussing his new book, "Inside CENTCOM: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." "Two days before the war, on March 17 [2003], we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and technical intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 [most wanted] Iraqis, going to Syria," Gen. DeLong explained. "We also know that before then, they buried some of the weapons of mass destruction," he added. "There are also some in Lebanon and probably a small amount in Iran." The WMD smuggling operation didn't require large vehicles, the ex-general explained. "In order to transport their biological weapons, they could take their entire experimental weapons system in one or two suitcases - pretty easy to hide," he told Malzberg. As for Saddam's chemical weapons cache, his deputies could have fit them into "a van - probably one van or two vans and either bury it or drive it across one of the borders," the former No. 2 CENTCOM chief said. Human intelligence, said DeLong, indicated that Saddam's deputies also "took billions of dollars with them when they went into Syria." It's no surprise that weapons buried in Iraq have yet to be uncovered. "Seven-eighths of the country is arid desert and it's the size of California. You could probably bury 100 Empire State Buildings in Iraq and not find them," the former Marine said.
Nothing but a puppet just like Tommy Franks, Allawi, Tony Blair. Only John Kerry has his own opinions. The money also came from Halliburton and Enron, don't forget those. I think even Powell has mentioned the vans being sent to Syria. Syria is gonna fold on November 3. They're already laying the ground work.
i dunno how anyone can be convinved there were not any wmds, even if we never find them. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
No disrespect to the General here, and what he said probably has a lot of truth to it, but the more likely story that I believe, is that Hussein's WMD program was a "shadow program" that existed only on paper. I think the plan for him was to wait out the UN sanctions, acquring ABC (atomic, biological, chemical) base materials and dual-use materials/technologies and expertise, and, once the UN sanctions were lifted and the no-fly zones and U.S. patrols were gone, immediately resume the development of WMDs. To date, we haven't found any ABC materials, but we have found the weapons labs, captured the scientists (who've basically told us the "shadow program" was what the plan was), and discovered the paper trail. What we've found so far fits with this idea. And that, along with Hussein's ties to terrorism and the repeated violations of the Desert Storm cease-fire agreement, were more than enough justification for me to have us go to war. The "BUSH LIED" LLL nuts continue to move the goal posts in an effort to confuse the real issues of this. I'm not buying and I don't think the rest of America is either.
That sounds logical. I had never thought of that. I've always been a believer in the Syria theory, but I think it could be a bit of both. Why people think it's a-ok or normal for Saddam to have the labs in working condition and the scientist at his disposal will never make sense to me. I won't even start on Iraq being a terrorits state. He could have started this war the day he walked into office and I would have supported it 100%. It had been a long time coming. The "Bush Lied" people let their hatred overshadow common sense. Thankfully they are the minority.
I have said this multiple times in multiple threads.....we have plenty of evidence to support this and anyone who thinks otherwise is honestly quite ignorant of the true evidence.
Fair enough. Would you list the true evidence you speak of? I've heard a lot of speculation and theories about why they haven't been found, but I haven't seen a lot of evidence of WMD's actually existing in Iraq when we went to war. I'd like to see it. I've heard about six gas artillery shells that escaped 1990's UN weapons distruction. But I've seen no evidence of the hundreds of tons of nerve gas that the Bush administration claimed was there, nor any remaining nuclear weapons program either.
