Re: GAO Report: GA Security Threat

Fred the Red Shirt wrote:
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> > | > | I can't see much of a difference for the world with Saddam missing (he
> > | > | isn't, really, by the way). I am now absolutely certain - as most news
> > | > | watchers - that Saddam didn't pose nearly the threat that some were
> >  led
> > | > | to believe. There are no WMD, period.
> > | > |
> > | >
> > | > Saddam's own military commanders all believed that Saddam had WMD. They
> >  have
> > | > told investigators that they still believe it.
> > |
> > | I'm only aware of one such person and he made claims about nuclear
> > | weapons which made it clear that he actually knew nothing about them.
> >
> > Well, I heard it on NPR.
> 
> Do you recall the context?  E.g. did the NPR speaking head say that or
> did the NPR speaking head quote someone else as saying that, or
> was someone else being interviewed who said that or did they play
> statements from 'all' of Sadam Hussein's own military commanders?
> Were ANY of the commanders mentioned by name?
> 
> I have speculated that the Iraqi military was so weakened by the
> 1991 war and ensuing sanctions that Saddam Hussein created the
> impression that he was hiding WMDs as a bluff to forstall
> military action against his regime from outside or within.  But
> I don't claim that to be anything but my own speculation.
> 
> Let's not forget that he only controlled about 2/3 of his own
> country and his control over half of that was marginal.
>
His WMD were effective enough to stop the US for 12 years, until the UN
discovered they weren't there and that it was safe to attack.