U.S. official: Iraqis told me WMDs sent to Syria

I am NOT at all a fan of World Net Daily, but I can vouch for Ryan Mauro’s piece for several reasons. It corroborates earlier articles from other sources. It corroborates my own research. It revolves around a man of honor-not some political partisan hack or the Maple Syrup King of Vermont/Dr/Gov/Middle East expert and DNC chairman. Lastly, because Ryan is not WND, RNC, or DNC, but because he’s Ryan.

Many people like to stick to the partisan talking point that there was “NO WMD” or “No stockpiles” found in Iraq. This is inaccurate, misleading, and based on politicization of wartime facts. The ISG report found that Iraq was indeed a WMD threat (just as the UN had claimed only 2wks before the invasion), but not in the form of stockpiles. The ISG report even included pictures proving this, but people who believe anything the DNC says, and nothing the Bush Admin says don’t even look at the pictures. They just take other people’s opinions which they find palatable, and parrot them.

A former American overseer of Iraqi prisons says several dozen inmates who were members of Saddam Hussein’s military and intelligence forces boasted of helping transport weapons of mass destruction to Syria and Lebanon in the three months prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Don Bordenkircher – who served two years as national director of prison and jail operations in Iraq– told WND that about 40 prisoners he spoke with “boasted of being involved in the transport of WMD warheads to Syria.”
A smaller number of prisoners, he said, claimed “they knew the locations of the missile hulls buried in Iraq.”

In early 2006, Saddam’s No. 2 Air Force officer, Georges Sada, told the New York Sun Iraq’s WMDs were moved into Syria six weeks before the war started.

note: Sada was given several awards before the war for his pre-invasion efforts at preventing an invasion and his direct support of the peace movement.

Four of the prisoners – civilians attached to the Iraqi military – said they worked at the al-Muthana Chemical Industries site. They said the cargo included nitrogen mustard gas warheads for Tariq I and II missiles.

This would be the ultra-secure military base where WMD had been found several times before, and where the ISG found thousands of empty chemical artillery shells next to drums of “concentrated pesticide” as well as dual-use perfume atomizers bought in the west after 2002 that were being prepared for use in dispersing chemical weapons

Of course, the Iraqis got around shutting down the complex during the late 1990’s by bribing the French and other UNSC members to reclassifiy certain things as “dual-use”, and so it came to pass that the al Muthanna chemical weapons complex became the al Muthanna chemical weapons and the most heavily guarded shampoo complex in the history of mankind

The prisoners were members of the Iraqi military or civilians assigned to the Iraqi military, often stationed at munitions facilities, according to Bordenkircher. He said he was told the WMDs were shipped by truck into Syria, and some ended up in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

pre-war satellite images confirm this, and despite those images being shown in the ISG report…the politicized mantra from the Democratic Party (members of which actually, openly admit to misleading people on the war recently) is still believed.

…and besides…why would we possibly believe that Saddam’s regime would bury/dump illegal stuff in the sand anyway? (again, proponents/parrots of the “nowmd” theme didn’t even take the time to look at the pictures in the Duelfer Report).

…and let’s not forget the desperate need that the Iraqi Intelligence Services had for rare New Zealand Mole pesticide (opponents of the war would have us believe that the Iraqi Intelligence Services were also responsible for secretly carrying out a genocide against an unreported plague of New Zealand moles…..yet, PETA remains silent).

Look, it’s like this, people can say what they want about President Bush and his administration’s claims before the war. Me, I ignore the claims all together and look at the UN’s claims from 2wks before the invasion.

More specifically:

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  • Security Council resolution 687 (1991) called for the destruction, removal or rendering harmless, inter alia, of all Iraq’s research, development, support and manufacturing facilities related to CW activity.
  • UNSCOM also estimated that based on unaccounted for growth media, Iraq’s potential production of anthrax could have been in the range of about 15,000 to 25,000 litres.
  • Based on all the available evidence, the strong presumption is that about 10,000 litres of anthrax was not destroyed and may still exist.
  • In December 1998, there were over 20 spray dryers and 70 freeze dryers under inventory control including some of these items that could be used for the drying of bulk BW agent. In addition, there was evidence that Iraq was developing the capability of indigenously manufacturing spray dryers.
  • Iraq currently possesses the technology and materials, including fermenters, bacterial growth media and seed stock, to enable it to produce anthrax. Many of the skilled personnel familiar with anthrax production have been transferred to civilian industries.
  • Since Iraq produced more botulinum toxin than other agents and it still possesses the expertise and possibly the seed stock, material inputs (such as growth media), and equipment (fermenters), then production at least at the scale of its pre-1991 level could be rapidly recommenced.
  • The production and downstream processing equipment needed for Clostridium perfringens is available in Iraq in the civilian sector such as at vaccine plants.
  • Based on its estimate of the amounts of various types of media unaccounted for, UNSCOM estimated that the quantities of additional undeclared agent that potentially could have been produced were: 3,000 – 11,000 litres of botulinum toxin, 6,000 – 16,000 litres of anthrax, up to 5,600 litres of Clostridium perfringens, and a significant quantity of an unknown bacterial agent.
  • The assertion that aflatoxin was one of the agents investigated by Iraq in its BW programme is supported by the analysis of video tapes of field trials found in the Haidar Farm cache as well as documents and information provided by Iraq. There is little doubt that, as Iraq declared, aflatoxin was designated as agent C for the purposes of research, development and production.
  • Iraq has demonstrated the ability to manufacture both chemical and biological equipment, such as simple process equipment and fermenters.
  • While Iraq’s inventory of aerial chemical and biological bombs was presumably eliminated, its ability to reconstitute that inventory remains largely intact.
  • Iraq still had significant stocks of conventional 122-mm warheads and 155-mm projectiles similar to those previously modified for use with chemical agents. Iraq’s industries appear fully capable of modifying these conventional munitions for use with chemical agents as well as the indigenous production of most or all of their components.
  • Except for the artillery rocket and three aerial bombs filled with VX for corrosion and stability tests, Iraq declared that VX had not been weaponized. However, in April/May 1998, UNSCOM took remnants of missile warheads that had been unilaterally destroyed by Iraq for analysis. The analysis showed traces of VX degradation products, and a chemical known to be a stabilizer for VX.
  • There are 550 Mustard filled shells and up to 450 mustard filled aerial bombs unaccounted for since 1998. The mustard filled shells account for a couple of tonnes of agent while the aerial bombs account for approximately 70 tonnes
  • Iraq is self-sufficient with respect to the availability of starting materials required for production of Mustard
  • It is known that Iraq had tested different types of aerial spray or other devices capable of disseminating Mustard agent.
  • Of concern is the more general question of Iraq’s intentions with respect to RPVs as CBW delivery systems and the relationship to the spray tank development.
  • Given Iraq’s history of concealment with respect to its VX programme it cannot be excluded that it has retained some capability with regard to VX.
  • Iraq’s account of the number of bombs and warheads filled with anthrax has changed on several occasions.
  • There has been a surge of activity in the missile technology field in Iraq in the past four years.
  • In attempting to acquire not only operational missiles but also the associated know-how and the means of production of a two-stage missile with a solid rocket motor and a liquid propulsion engine, Iraq had apparently sought to establish a sound technological basis for an industrial infrastructure capable of producing an advanced short-range ballistic missile (SRBM – up to 1000 kilometres range).
  • A number of areas of uncertainty regarding Iraq ballistic missile programmes still exist. Many of these relate to Iraq’s unilateral destruction of missile components and propellants. Other areas relate to imports, accountancy and material balance questions.

The Democratic Party has time and time and time again lied and deliberately divided the nation’s war effort with the aim of lessening support for America’s goals in Iraq, and more towards perpetuating the enemy’s objectives via political means (the way in which insurgents win wars; by compelling the enemy’s political arm to support their objectives, seek them, and gain them).

The Democrat’s Congress has shown itself in no uncertain terms to have lied to get into power. They flip flop and dance around and argue both sides of an issue, accept no responsibility, allow no debate, and deflect accountability by pointing fingers away from themselves. Isn’t it time to dare to ask, “if they lied about this, that, and the other thing, then perhaps they’ve misled on Iraq,” and if one DARES to ask how Democrats might have misled on Iraq…then they are no longer allowed to be a Democrat. Some dissent is patriotic, but not all. There are types of dissent that are seditious, treasonous, and aid enemies of our nation more than it aids us.

Do you dare to ask how Democrats have misled on Iraq-ignore the Bush Admin for a moment here, and ask about Democrats. We’ve read plenty claims about the Republicans, etc. What about Democrats?