Saddam and Osama: The New Revelations
By: Pam On: Apr/18/06 - 15 Comments
Front Page Magazine has an interview with Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network.
Much of his research has focused on the role that nations such as Saddam’s Iraq and the mullah’s Iran have played in providing support, training and funding for terrorist entities such as al Qaeda, al Qaeda’s affiliates, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. He has written extensively about these connections for the Weekly Standard and in several other publications. Currently, he is organizing a research project to review and translate the millions of documents captured from the fallen Iraqi regime and the Taliban.
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April 18, 2006 - 04:01 PM on April 18th, 2006
Front Page Mag?!?!?!
Why not just post something directly from the White House website, or maybe the Republican National Committee?
April 18, 2006 - 04:04 PM on April 18th, 2006
Oh, this cannot be true! No not Saddam, never! There is no evidence whatsoever! It was ALL Bush’s fault! Where are the WMDs? NO WAR for OIL! Hillary in ‘08! It’s for the Children!!!
April 18, 2006 - 04:16 PM on April 18th, 2006
Tell you what, if it comes from Front Page Mag…it probably ISN’T true.
As a news source, that place and a few others rank right up there in terms of credibility with the likes of MichaelMoore.com
Some of you people hate the MSM so much that you turn to the weakest, lamest right-wing news sources. It’s quite laughable, if it wasn’t so sad.
April 18, 2006 - 05:24 PM on April 18th, 2006
Thomas Joscelyn is also a contributor to The Wekkly Standard..he is very credible…
April 18, 2006 - 05:50 PM on April 18th, 2006
Wait a sec, who is this guy???
“Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network.”
But his blogger profile says he’s “an economist and writer”
Am I missing something?? Do I have the wrong guy? HOW is this man an expert on international terrorist networks???
April 18, 2006 - 11:29 PM on April 18th, 2006
Well the article does point out a few things that the left really will not want to admit. Let me highlight them for you. The CIA had virtually no HUMINT assets in Iraqi Intelligence or Al Quaeda. Yep, that’s totally believable. Look up the Church Commission and Carter’s presidential decree barring US Intelligence agencies from recruiting and paying informers who were involved in illegal activities themselves.
The CIA agents who were “asleep at the wheel” during the 90s are trying to discredit any intelligence documents that might demonstrate that fact. Also totally believable. Considering that anyone who was working in the intelligence community from January 1993 to January 2001 would’ve been working for an antagonistic administration, anyone who was still there was probably of the Valery Plame vintage. Hardly a high endorsement. Seeing as she not only lobbied to get her husband sent to Niger, but also “failed” to have him sign the requisite security document thereby allowing him to write the now discredited NYT Op Ed. I would hardly call her a shining example of the best and the brightest this country has to offer. Add to that the “Wall” that Jaime Gorelick built to prevent intelligence and law enforcement agencies from sharing data, is it any wonder that the CIA is circling its wagons to discredit these documents?
April 19, 2006 - 06:56 AM on April 19th, 2006
FAO has just done an excellent job of summarizing the Leftist damage done to our intel and security capability since the days of Peanut Brain, and furthered by the Klinton admin. Anyone care to dispute any of that, or the conclusion?
You can try, but you’ll be wrong.
April 19, 2006 - 07:59 AM on April 19th, 2006
The left just cant face the truth the USSR is as dead as disco and that socialism is a failuer where ever its tried:roll:
April 20, 2006 - 12:26 AM on April 20th, 2006
#7. Why thank you Robert. I do try.
I’m old enough to remember the Carter Debacle. I can remember double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and double digit interest rates. I can remember watching the students tear down the flag from the US Embassy in Tehran. I can remember how Carter refused to take any action to retrieve our embassy employees until it was too late. I remember how the entire Desert One operation was botched because they insisted on using men and equipment from every service instead of the best equipment for the job. Why would anyone use a Sea Stallion helicopter in a desert environment knowing that it had a history of not operating well in dusty environments? Why is it that Ross Perot could get a bunch of employees out of Tehran while the US government couldn’t? Ross Perot hired a bunch of former Green Berets and SEALS and sent them in to Tehran to retrieve his employees and they got everyone out alive. Could it be that he was willing to pay whoever it took to get the intelligence necessary and his operational coommander kept to the basic plan of KISS – Keep it simple, stupid versus trying to play political patty cake so no one’s feelings would be hurt? Isn’t liberalism grand?
April 20, 2006 - 12:35 AM on April 20th, 2006
FAO, I have been waiting for someone, like SF Liberal, to take up the cudgel and attempt to dispute what you posted in #6.
I see there is no rebuttal. I guess this is one occasion where even he can’t dispute the facts.
April 20, 2006 - 12:38 AM on April 20th, 2006
I was on active duty during the botched Carter Desert 1 mision and I remember wondering if we were going to be going in anytime soon. I can tell you how I and my other platoon members felt about it; we were absolutely ready and willing.
April 20, 2006 - 11:36 PM on April 20th, 2006
Thanks Robert. Don’t you just love it when you hit people in the face with a clue by four?
April 21, 2006 - 12:27 AM on April 21st, 2006
Yes. However, he will not acknowledge it.
April 21, 2006 - 06:47 PM on April 21st, 2006
“I have been waiting for someone, like SF Liberal, to take up the cudgel and attempt to dispute what you posted in #6.
…I see there is no rebuttal. I guess this is one occasion where even he can’t dispute the facts.”
No, I’m just not very interested in conspiracy theories.
April 23, 2006 - 12:14 AM on April 23rd, 2006
No, I’m just not very interested in conspiracy theories.
Apparently not interested in learning beans about history either. I’m not advancing any conspiracy theories, I’m simply relating facts. Not opinions, just the facts from what I watched unfold during my and apparently Robert’s lifetime. My guess would put it at least 10 years before yours, or at least before your becoming politically aware. Nothing wrong with not knowing facts before you were old enough to learn or understand them. There is something horribly wrong with not being at least willing to investigate facts you don’t agree with to determine their legitimacy. San Fran, I don’t ask you questions to make you look stupid. You are not stupid, simply ill informed as to the history that has lead us to this point in time. Look up the information that I ask you to and stop trying to use opinions to bolster your arguments and you will gain a lot more respect from the readers of this blog.
With the exception of BJ Billy’s “It depends on your definition of the word “is”" argument, most people understand the meaning of the word FACT. Facts unlike opinions and contrary to Democratic arguments do not change with point of view. If someone is dead, it’s a fact. If someone says, I think they’re dead, that’s an opinion. Maybe the person is dead, maybe they aren’t.