New evidence linking Saddam to WMD and al-Qaeda

[vulturesrow]

Salt,

No it probably got bagged and catalogued and sent off for analysis. I find the explanation of how they got it very plausible. People leak documents all the time. Its nothing cosmic.

[ThaSaltCracka]

Yeah but one would think that a document such as this would be broughten immediately to the attention of the President, the Republican party, and Sean Hannity.

Seriously though, a document like this does not sit and collect dust.

[vulturesrow]

Of course not. But the source is one factor to consider. I dont automatically dismiss it because of the source. It may cause me to read more critically but thats about itt.

[vulturesrow]

Its a known fact that we still have tons of documents to sift through from Iraq. One thing you cant fault the Iraqis on is their penchant for record keeping. The US is notably short on Arabic translators and so it is taking quite some time to get through this stuff. It is entirely possible that this is the first theyve seen of it.

[ThaSaltCracka]

lots of things are possible......

[caretaker1]

1) Did I miss something, or did the article say nothing about Al-Qaeda?
2) "The memo includes Saddam's directive that "the party should move to hunt the Americans who are on Arabian land" - no surprise here, in the eyes of some, American soldiers are invaders on Arab soil and thus some would wish them dead for this
3) Interesting, but a more unbiased source would be more convincing. Also, shouldn't the administration already have readily available information regarding the certainty that Iraq had WMDs? After all, it was used as a justification for invading the country. We shouldn't need any media source to tell us this for the first time (independent of a member of the administration).

[Knockwurst]

So let me get this straight:

1. An unnamed senior government official finds a file of documents outlining Saddam's terrorist ties and detailing his possession of WMD's among thousands of untranslated documents. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

2. This unnamed senior government official does not want to turn these documents -- highly vital to the war on terrorism -- into a political circus. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

3. So instead of going to the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department or the CIA with these documents, he bypasses all of them, bypasses any other news organizations such as the Washington Post, L.A. Times, ABC and NBC (you can even throw in the Wall Street Journal, Fox, and Washington Times) and goes straight to a third-rate, backwater, right wing "news agency" about a half -step above a blog, connected to the Media Research Center to give them the exclusive -- because he doesn't want to make it political. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

4. What's wrong with this picture? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Knockwurst]

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[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
4. What's wrong with this picture?

[/ QUOTE ] I think if you are a Bush supporter, nothing.

[caretaker1]

[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Funny, yet perhaps sadly true