Yes folks, just as I suspected, a new rationale for a new war has been floated.. this time by Israel. The missing WMD’s are alive and well in Syria.
This dovetails nicely with what my husband heard on talk radio last weekend during a trip through upstate New York… the WMD’s were in Iraq and it was the damn anti-war Democrats (ummm… Wellstone & Feingold??) who were responsible for them not turning up by giving Saddam too much time to hide/ move them.
Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.
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The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. “He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria,” General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. “No one went to Syria to find it.”
Well, maybe Bush will now eh… just in time for the 2006 elections perhaps?
And lest we think Sharon doesn’t think the same thing…
An article in the Fall 2005 Middle East Quarterly reports that in an appearance on Israel’s Channel 2 on December 23, 2002, Israel’s prime minister, Ariel Sharon stated, “Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria.” The allegation was denied by the Syrian government at the time as “completely untrue,” and it attracted scant American press attention, coming as it did on the eve of the Christmas holiday.