Stupid ABC News - Saddam Told His Cabinet No WMD's

[otohara]

but didn't tell the UN & Bush, because he didn't want Iran to know they had nothing left.

So then the guy doing tonights news broadcast, asks the other guy doing the actual report "Why didn't Saddam tell * Bush and avoid war"?

The media is seriously fucked up to think the truth coming from the mouth of Saddam himself would have stopped Bunnypants from having his war.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I guess everybody also forgot that Bush attacked early. The "deadline"

hadn't been reached when he opted for a shock and awe moment. I think he was hoping to kill Sadaam in the first hour and never had a back-up plan.

[rustydog]

2. Piss poor reporting...Saddam volunteered to leave Iraq

to avoid the invasion. Bush's "Leave in the next 24-hours or else" ultimatum was a sham..
where was the media on this?

[blm]

3. WEAPONS INSPECTORS were telling Bush everyday for two months there were no

WMDs on the ground there and that was the only REAL current intel that was actually operative at that point. Bush went to war DESPITE that real intel.

The media giving Bush a pass on that is prove positive that they are protecting the Bushboy.

[otohara]

4. Exactly, MSM Forever Whoring

for the corporate Executive Branch...keep those tax cuts coming.

[ET Awful]

5. Saddam DID tell the UN and Bush he had no WMDs.

He submitted a massive report to that effect.

The Bush administration said he was lying and redacted huge portions of that report.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Hundreds of pages missing, if I remember correctly

Down the memory hole. so to speak.

[ProSense]

6. Reported that Saddam was offered and accepted exile to avert war.

Text of UAE letter on Saddam

Saturday, March 1, 2003 Posted: 8:08 AM EST (1308 GMT)

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) -- Text of letter from Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, to Arab leaders meeting at a summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.

"I call on the Arab summit to adopt an initiative based on the following points:

1. That the Iraqi leadership should step down and leave Iraq with all the appropriate advantages within two weeks of adopting this Arab initiative.

2. Regional and international binding legal guarantees should be given to the Iraqi leadership so that it won't be subject to any form of legal action.

3. A general, complete amnesty should be made for all Iraqis inside and outside Iraq.

4. The Arab League, in cooperation with the U.N. secretary-general, should supervise the situation in Iraq for an interim period during which all necessary measures are taken in order to return the situation to its normal situation according to the will of the brotherly Iraqi people.

more...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.uae.text.ap/

Saddam accepted UAE exile plan to avert Iraq war-TV

October 28, 2005

DUBAI (Reuters) - Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had secretly accepted a last-minute plan to go into exile to avert the 2003 Iraq war, but Arab leaders shot the proposal down, Al Arabiya television reported on Friday.

UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan made the proposal for Saddam to go into exile at an emergency Arab summit just weeks before the U.S.-led war began in March 2003.

But the 22-member Arab League, led by Secretary-General Amr Moussa, refused to consider the initiative.

"We had got the final agreement from the different parties, the main players in the world and the person concerned -- Saddam Hussein -- within 24 hours," Mohammed bin Zayed, deputy head of the UAE armed forces and crown prince of Abu Dhabi, told the UAE-based channel in a documentary.


more...

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/28/saddam_accepted_uae_exile_plan_to_avert_iraq_war_tv/

[greenman3610]

8. He did tell them

and they said that
proved he HAD them...