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Tom Brokaw: President Clinton Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD



 
 
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Old January 14th, 2014, 10:45 AM posted to alt.journalism,alt.fan.letterman,rec.travel.air
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Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN,
former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw recounted some of the
rationale behind why the Bush administration believed that
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before the
invasion of Iraq, even noting that President Clinton had also
believed in the presence of WMD. (Video below)

Brokaw related evidence that the Iraqi dictator had tried to
deceive Iran into believing he possessed WMD, and noted that the
people of Iraq lived in "sheer terror" and were afraid to talk
to the NBC anchor when he visited the country during Saddam
Hussein's reign.

After host Piers Morgan asked Brokaw about the difference
between America's approach to the war effort in Libya versus its
more direct invasion of Iraq, Brokaw noted that a distinction
between what the U.S. faced in the two countries was that Saddam
Hussein "had the iron fist over that entire country." Brokaw:

Saddam Hussein really had the iron fist over that entire
country, had an enormous military that was there. I was in Iraq
several times before the war began, and the sheer terror of
people in the streets of Iraq afraid to talk to you in any way
because they didn't know whether they would be eliminated and
the kind of terror techniques that he unleashed on people, the
most innocent people in Iraq for the smallest, slight however he
perceived it. So those are two different circumstances.

The former NBC anchor went on to recount the reasons people
believed Iraq had WMD:

A lot of people believed that he did have weapons of mass
destruction. President Clinton did, in fact. I was over there
with the U.N. weapons inspector and it was not clear. I would
fly over later acres and acres and miles and miles of what they
call igloos. These are ammunition storage depots, and General
Petraeus said to me one day, "We don't know what's in there."
Well, it turns out not much because he was trying to kind of
rope a dope Iran, trying to persuade Iran that he had weapons of
mass destruction. And my own belief is that some of his colonels
generated a lot of paper that indicated they had weapons, they
were getting money from him, and some of that money may be
stored away somewhere.

Below is a trancript of the relevant exchange from the
Wednesday, December 14, Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN:

PIERS MORGAN: I mean, certainly Libya was a very, very
interesting exercise in the way that America could do these kind
of wars, for want of a better phrase, going forward, in the
sense that they had a bad guy who'd run a bad regime as Saddam
Hussein had done for decades. But rather than go all guns
blazing leading the international coalition forces, the
Americans took a backseat, and no American soldiers lost their
lives. Gaddafi was taken out. What do you think about the
changing manner in which American military is now deploying
itself?

TOM BROKAW: That was an easier call for the involvement of the
American military as part of a NATO force. Primarily it was air
power and some strategic and tactical advice on the ground
because there had been an uprising against Gaddafi that was
indigenous, that had started in that country.

We didn't have that in Iraq. Saddam Hussein really had the iron
fist over that entire country, had an enormous military that was
there. I was in Iraq several times before the war began, and the
sheer terror of people in the streets of Iraq afraid to talk to
you in any way because they didn't know whether they would be
eliminated and the kind of terror techniques that he unleashed
on people, the most innocent people in Iraq for the smallest,
slight however he perceived it. So those are two different
circumstances.

A lot of people believed that he did have weapons of mass
destruction. President Clinton did, in fact. I was over there
with the U.N. weapons inspector and it was not clear. I would
fly over later acres and acres and miles and miles of what they
call igloos. These are ammunition storage depots, and General
Petraeus said to me one day, "We don't know what's in there."
Well, it turns out not much because he was trying to kind of
rope a dope Iran, trying to persuade Iran that he had weapons of
mass destruction. And my own belief is that some of his colonels
generated a lot of paper that indicated they had weapons, they
were getting money from him, and some of that money may be
stored away somewhere.


http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wi...15/tom-brokaw-
president-clinton-thought-saddam-hussein-had-wmd

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Default Tom Brokaw: President Clinton Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD

Hillary Clinton Murderess wrote:

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN,
former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw recounted some of the
rationale behind why the Bush administration believed that
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before the
invasion of Iraq, even noting that President Clinton had also
believed in the presence of WMD.


So Brokaw is now an appologist for the Bush administration?

When will CNN bring out Dan Rather as a guest host?

Brokaw related evidence that the Iraqi dictator had tried to
deceive Iran into believing he possessed WMD,


How many years did Iraq live under crippling UN sanctions and no fly
zones?

And STILL be able to fend off Iran by bluffing about their WMD's?

And you're going to fault them for doing that?

and noted that the people of Iraq lived in "sheer terror"


What would you rather do. Live under "sheer terror", or be killed as a
result of Bush's "liberation"?

and were afraid to talk to the NBC anchor when he visited the
country during Saddam Hussein's reign.


The average Iraqi's standard of living was far better before they were
"liberated" during Bush's illegal invasion and aftermath.

Saddam Hussein "had the iron fist over that entire country.


Arab countries need to be ruled by a strong man, a semi-benevolent
dictator. The only alternative is to be ruled by religious mullas and
islamic fundamentalists. You tell me which one is better - for us AND
for them. Just go and ask the christian minorities in those countries
(Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon) what they would prefer. Assuming you can
find them today.

Saddam Hussein really had the iron fist over that entire
country,


And the IRS (and their surveilance arm the NSA) has an iron fist over
americans.

The former NBC anchor went on to recount the reasons people
believed Iraq had WMD:


How about the fact that americans gave it to them?

How about myself (Don Rumsfeld) with a smile and a handshake gave Saddam
chemical weapons to use agains Iran?

A lot of people believed that he did have weapons of mass
destruction.


And UN resolution 1441 was put forward as a way for Iraq to show it did
not have them, and Iraq did satisfy those requirements (as much as
anyone can - seeing as resolution 1441 called on them to prove a
negative argument - which is practically speaking logically impossible).
 




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