Saddam's WMDs were moved to Syria:
The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.Well, the guy is trying to sell a book. Power Line thinks we need more, and I agree. But as Rick Moran points out, there have been more than a few indications of such a move for a very long time now. I discussed some of them earlier. Maybe we should start taking it seriously, though that argument has certainly never worked with liberals before.
The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.
"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."
Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."
In any case, Michelle Malkin has the roundup. And Bryan Preston has the lesson in all this:
Just a thought here, thinking strategically. When you intend to invade a country because it possesses WMD, don’t give that country a year of really really obvious indications that you’re going to invade. Like, just to throw something out there, going to the useless, feckless, counter-productive UN and trying for a solid year to get it off its keister and support your invasion. A year is more than enough time to move massive stockpiles a few hundred miles across a friendly border. Hopefully we’ve learned this lesson and will apply it to, again just to throw an idea out there, stopping Iran’s nuclear program.Indeed.
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