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CNS News is reporting (via Crosswalk.com) that organizers of an Intelligence Summit have 12 hours of Saddam tapes that may just be the "smoking gun". Apparently ABC's plans to devote tonights Nightline to these tapes. Should be veeeeery interesting. Nightline (at least when it was under Koppel) was an extreme left show though, so I'm going to expect them to try to downplay this development as much as they can. But we can always hope they report it honestly.

excerpt (read more here):

(CNSNews.com) - Secret audiotapes of Saddam Hussein discussing ways to attack America with weapons of mass destruction will be the subject of an ABC "Nightline" program Wednesday night, a former federal prosecutor told Cybercast News Service.

The tapes are being called the "smoking gun" of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. The New York Sun reported that the tapes have been authenticated and currently are being reviewed by the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The panel's chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), declined to give the Sun details of the content or context of the recordings, saying only that they were provided to his committee by former federal prosecutor John Loftus.

Loftus has been tight-lipped about the tapes, telling the Sun only that he received them from a "former American military intelligence analyst."

On Tuesday night, Loftus told Cybercast News Service that ABC's "Nightline" would air an "extensive report" on the tapes Wednesday night. Loftus also described an ABC News "teaser," which reportedly contains audio of Saddam Hussein discussing ways to attack America with WMD. "Nightline will have a lot more," said Loftus.

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The documents also demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. The papers showed that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.

Couple this with the testimony from countless Iraqis claiming the stuff was moved to Syria shortly before the war, including most recently was General Sada. Tie that in with Syria exiles making the same claims.

IMPORTANT, I FORGOT TO POST THIS LAST WEEK... Along with all the other stuff, add the fact that we have a former special investigator for the Pentagon during the Iraq war saying that he knows where the WMDs are (or where they were at one point)

(just a small excerpt from this MUST READ ARTICLE.)

A former special investigator for the Pentagon during the Iraq war said he found four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that he is sure contain stocks of chemical and biological weapons. But when he asked American weapons inspectors to check out the sites, he was rebuffed.

AGAIN, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT MUST READ ARTICLE!!!

So add in all those things, and the fact that we know Saddam DID HAVE WMDs at one point, because he used them. The fact that virtually all world intelligence said they were there, meaning the stockpiles we all thought were there are still technically "unaccounted for" today. All the leading Dems made a stronger case than Bush for over a decade preceding the war. Add the fact that Saddam wasn't giving unfettered access to the UN inspectors. If you think they were never there, then you're choosing to believe that the mass murderer Saddam Hussein is the good guy here, and chose to destroy his own WMDs behind the world's back. Riiiiiiiiight liberals, that's what happened.

I suspect the MSM will largely ignore this, but it looks like ABC News is at least going try to tackle it (again, I still fear the liberal downplaying spin). Yeah, the rest of the media is too busy to look at this story, or any of the others that should be the most important of our lives like Able Danger and Oil for Food, etc.... No, they're much busier finding out why they weren't the first to be informed about Cheney's hunting accident, because that really affects the American people.

UPDATE 11:39 AM CT MacsMind reminds me of another bit of information I meant to mention in my initial posting of this - Rockefeller's bragging admission that many have called treasonous (but is extremely disturbing to say the very least):

I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq – that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.

Way to tip off the enemy you idiot, and then be stupid enough to brag years later on national television. What a shock we can't find the stuff huh?

That said, again thanks to MacsMind for reminding me of what I set out to mention... But beyond that, MacsMind seems to imply that the visit may be part of the subject matter in these tapes:

UPDATE III: I don't know if this will be on the tapes shown tonight, but word is a certain Senator's visit is inferred.

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By the way, the libs will continue to be dishonest and deny the WMDs until the unthinkable happens... The positives of this story, however, are that at some point hopefully we'll gain credibility back in the world that we shouldn't have lost in the first place... And this will (if it all comes to light) officially bury the Democratic Party. This has been all they've had for years now is the "Bush misled" (because the media won't bust them on having made a stronger case for over a decade). But if/when they're proven to be the dishonest ones, we can once and for all virtually eliminate the Democratic Party, or at least what the Democratic Party has become for too many years now. It will be a great day. Pardon My English wonders what the libs will do when the truth comes out. My guess is they'll scream: "CHENEY SHOT A GUY AND DIDN'T TELL THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS IMMEDIATELY! WHY!? WHY!? WE SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO KNOW EVERYTHING!"

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UPDATE 12:17 PM CT

I just called the Intelligence Summit and they confirmed this. Apparently there will be 5 minutes on ABC's regular news, and the entire Nightline program will be devoted to this.

Apparently I'm a little behind on this one... I'm being told that Loftus has been talking about this on the John Batchelor show for weeks now. It seems that the MSM has really been trying to hide this one, because it only stands to hurt the Democrats in the long run. The Jawa Report was on this over a week ago... So was Stop the ACLU after reading this Sun article that I somehow missed.

UPDATE - 2:24 PM CT:
ABC News finally has this posted on their site:

(partial exceprts, read entire article here)

One of the most dramatic moments on the 12 hours of tape comes when Saddam predicts —during a meeting in the mid 1990s — a terrorist attack on the United States. "Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2nd and told the British as well & that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. "In the future, what would prevent a booby trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?" But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. "This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq."

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.....In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April or May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that UN inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq's Biological Weapons program—a program the existence of which Iraq had previously denied.

At one point, Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the UN.

"We did not reveal all that we have," Kamel says in the meeting "not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct." Shortly after this meeting, in August 1995, Hussein Kamel defected to Jordan and Iraq was forced to admit that it had concealed its Biological Weapons program. (Kamel returned to Iraq in February 1996 and was killed in a firefight with Iraqi security forces.)

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., says the tapes are authentic and show that "Saddam had a fixation on weapons of mass destruction and he had a fixation on hiding what he was doing from the UN inspectors." Hoeckstra says there are more than 35,000 boxes of such tapes and documents that the U.S. government has not analyzed nor made public that should also be examined.

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