FBI Interviews: Saddam Bluffed About WMD Out of Fear of Iran

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FBI Interviews: Saddam Bluffed About WMD Out of Fear of Iran - Political News - FOXNews.com

Before he was hanged, Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he let the world believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he didn't want his greatest enemy, Iran, to discover Iraq's weaknesses, according to newly released FBI interview notes.
The former Iraqi dictator, though, repeatedly contradicted the United States' case for war against his country, saying he had no connection to the "zealot" Usama bin Laden and never had any WMD's.
The detailed interviews, spanning February to June 2004, were obtained by the National Security Archive and posted on its Web site Wednesday.
In them, Hussein told FBI special agent George Piro that he viewed Iran and its "fanatic" mullahs as a bigger threat than the United States and thought, mistakenly, that his country could have "absorbed" another United States strike. He was less confident about a strike from Iran.
"Hussein viewed the other countries in the Middle East as weak and could not defend themselves or Iraq from a attack from Iran," the notes said. Hussein's biggest concern was that Iran would try to annex part of southern Iraq.
In a June 11, 2004, interview -- months after his December 2003 capture -- Piro wrote that Hussein said his concern about Iran was the "major factor" as to why he did not allow United Nations inspectors into his country.
"Hussein stated he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for his refusal to allow U.N. inspectors back into Iraq," the notes said. "In his opinion, the U.N. inspectors would have directly identified to the Iranians where to inflict maximum damage to Iraq."
In a Feb. 13, 2004, interview, Hussein said his country destroyed its weapons, and suggested that another reason he blocked U.N. inspectors was because he was concerned they wanted all their expenses and accommodations paid for by Iraq.
"By God, if I had such weapons, I would have used them in the fight against the United States," he said, according to the FBI notes.
Hussein said the United States was "looking for a reason to do something," and that Iraqi leaders made decisions that gave the United States an "opening" for war.
The non-governmental National Security Archive obtained the summaries through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Thoughts?
 
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Just confirms that we went to war on a big fat LIE.
 
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4323 American men and women. Dead.
 
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So Saddam gave the order for us to attack him? Interesting logic there.
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
How about putting out the stats on WWII or WWI. Those changed the world to be a better place. Stop acting like these deaths are in vain.
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good point. Democrats have involved the US in unnecessary wars resulting in the deaths of over 500,000 US servicemen and women.
 
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One, you are assuming that the story is accurately reporting what he said.

Two, you are assuming that if that is what he did say, that what he said is accurate.

Three, at best, it means that we let some two bit loon fool our intelligence agencies into supporting a claim of a relationship to Bin Laden that wasn't there and WMD that he never had.
 
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SWIL said:
So Saddam gave the order for us to attack him? Interesting logic there.
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No I am saying that if it is true that Bush purposely trumped up charges of WMD's then Sadaam gave him the reason and justification to do so!
 
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KB5252 said:
No I am saying that if it is true that Bush purposely trumped up charges of WMD's then Sadaam gave him the reason and justification to do so!
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Kim Jong Il does this almost weekly. Let's got attack N. Korea!
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
How about putting out the stats on WWII or WWI. Those changed the world to be a better place. Stop acting like these deaths are in vain.
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What have we accomplished in this war besides giving the Iraqi people a democracy that they are not ready for?
 
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lawgator1 said:
One, you are assuming that the story is accurately reporting what he said.

:lolabove:

Two, you are assuming that if that is what he did say, that what he said is accurate.

Agree here - who knows.

Three, at best, it means that we let some two bit loon fool our intelligence agencies into supporting a claim of a relationship to Bin Laden that wasn't there and WMD that he never had.
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Where's the claim of the relationship to BL?
 
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kptvol said:
I don't think Sadam had a few billion Chinese guys in his corner.
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I love this argument.

So WMD's, defying the UN, and human rights abuses was...or was not...the primary reason for going into Iraq? Seems to me NK is far more guilty and more of a threat on all these charges, which would leave the primary reason for going into Iraq being "because we could".
 
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Furthermore, if foxnews is just now reporting Saddam's two-sided game with the US and Iran concerning WMD's, as if it wasn't known all along, they are even more inept than I thought.
 
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