From most media outlets you mostly seem to get ‘impeach Bush’, ‘he lied to America’, ‘blood for oil’, and ‘unilaterally, he’s trampling on international policy’. Amazing how one-sided a story can be, and how people can be fooled into thinking it’s the truth. It’s time to get out of that ‘box’, remove your ‘hate’, and think rationally. But what follows should NOT be read by closed minds.

On 6/28/06, Kathleen Parker actually wrote about the latest WMD revelations in Iraq. New documents released revealed that coalition forces have recovered ~500 weapons since 2003 that contain mustard/sarin nerve agents. Interestingly, it was observed that these projectiles could be used outside of Iraq.

Wait, let’s back up. We find, not nuclear, but ‘certifiably’ weapons of mass destruction in Iraq while under Hussein’s rule. Let’s forget, for the moment, that the British continues to confirm its intelligence information that Hussein was looking for weapons-grade yellowcake in Niger.

Granted, nuclear-tipped missiles were not found. But finally, we know definitively that Hussein was lying about having and using WMD’s. We know that he lied in the report Hussein made to the UN about having no WMD’s, all the way back to the 80’s. The obvious question: “What else was he lying about?”

Interestingly, no one has yet replied to the options that Hussein had about his WMD’s during the 2003 Allied invasion. They are:

1) WMD’s were all destroyed in the initial ‘shock and awe’ incursion.

2) WMD’s were physically hidden immediately before the invasion.

3) WMD’s were shipped to terrorist nations(i.e., Syria) before the invasion.

4) Hussein obeyed demands for destruction of WMD’s prior to the invasion.

Knowing that Hussein has lied about WMD’s, option #4 is moot. We won’t go into the fact that #4 was least likely anyway since Hussein could have retained power if he had proved that all his WMD’s had, in fact, been destroyed. Evidently, he did not, because he could not.

Some facts you rarely hear from the media were: 1)EVERY world intelligence agency stated earlier that they knew Hussein had WMD’s, 2)in 6/05 the UN admitted that satellite imagery had shown that Hussein had removed equipment for manufacturing WMD’s from 109 sites, 3) NYTimes(3/14/06) stated that they were told(by Iraqi Deputy Minister of Industry/ Sami al-Araji)that looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Hussein’s most important weapons installations, including some with high precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, 4)Iraqi General Georges Sadaas’ new book Saddam’s Secrets detailed how the WMD’s were moved to Syria, 5)tapes of Saddam saying terrorist WMD threats WERE coming to America, 6)all Iraqi generals believed that WMD’s existed to repel an American invasion, 7)a recovered document from 2002 describes “the transfer of Top Secret and Very Important WMD documents from the Iraqi National Monitoring Agency to more secure locations.”, 8)US military found WMD protective gear issued to Iraqi soldiers by their military, 9)documents found dated 9/15/01(ABC news) that confirmed that the Iraqi government and “bin Laden’s group” agreed to cooperate to attack targets inside America.

But the thousands of documents declassified haven’t all been translated yet. A videotape recovered from 1995 shows Hussein Kamal, Saddam’s son-in-law, briefing the dictator on how he kept UN inspectors in the dark about Iraq’s WMD ambitions and capabilities. One document from ABCNews says Hussein and Bin Laden discussed “carrying out joint operations against foreign forces”. In a taped conversation between Hussein, and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz who says “The serial number of every single missile is known because our supplier was the Russians.”

Documents discovered by the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes catalogues over 7200 Arabs who graduated from “terrorist” camps in 1998 from Egypt, Palestine, the Gulf, and Syria. And in a document dated 3/10/01, Hussein specifically asks for volunteers for suicide missions to strike American Interests. Clearly, Hussein’s military was planning direct aggression against America. For those unafraid of the facts, they can access most of the above information on internet portal [fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm] to be translated.

The documents found thus far, including the above, are extensive. Thousands more have been found, but have been labeled ‘classified’. Such liberal publications such as ABCNews, and the NYTimes have reported many themselves, but no apologies for incorrect conclusions were forthcoming. Even the present administration has not hyped the documents. We know, of course, that Bush’s re-election is not an issue, and just over half the population actually think he ‘lied’ about Iraq. Could it be that Bush is holding something back until just before the next election? Is there another October ‘surprise’ looming? Information that would make a lot of people look good, and a lot of them look awfully bad? How could Bush do that sort of thing after all the bad press he’s gotten lately?

Kevin Roeten
roetenks@charter.net

People constantly complain about the deficit, and how the Iraq war has eliminated the surplus. They refuse to believe that government revenue has increased every time a tax cut has been enacted. The kicker though, for those who will remove partisan blinders, is expenditures. And the UN is one, big, hairy expenditure.

Sure, the deficit is decreasing to where a surplus is expected in the next 5 years. But expenditures increase every year. One stands out, not only because of its sheer magnitude, but because of its immorality. This huge millstone around America’s neck, is the United Nations.

Americans are coming to realize that the UN is not the organization once trusted---even revered. Signs of decay are obvious. In their Human Rights Council, they included Cuba, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The United States was removed from the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights(UNHCHR) for the first time since 1947 in favor of Sudan. The Commission’s officials have already confirmed Sudan’s involvement in slavery. Members with poor human rights records include Algeria, China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Both China and Saudi Arabia are gross violators of human rights. China has a documented record of forced abortions and sterilizations. Other members are frequently guilty of imposing birth control, and denying the right to life in certain circumstances. In fact, the UN considers abortion formally established as a defacto ‘right’. If you take a cursory look at the UN alleged ‘social’ programs, you’ll also find them granting UN ‘NGO’ status to homosexual activist groups.

Certainly the UN’s Oil for Food scandal is public knowledge. Even in 2004, Gary Halbert(InvestorsInsight) succinctly said: “The nature and scope of these abuses were so grievous and so widespread that the Oil for Food program may well have been the greatest financial scandal of the last 100 years.” Halbert continued to delineate UN’s hypocrisy as they loudly criticized our efforts in the ‘War on Terror’ as inhumane, yet at the same time skimmed millions from the program depriving the Iraqi people of needed food and medicine. It seems obvious that the US invasion of Iraq was bad for certain countries’ business.

Fred Gedrich(Senior Analyst/ Freedom Alliance) believes that “the UN created an environment where Saddam could funnel large sums of money to terrorists…to the detriment of humanity and civilization…” This was the clinching connection between al-Qaeda and Hussein, and recently translated Iraqi documents confirm it. There was very little UN opposition to US military action in Afghanistan, but the UN protested loudly when the US went into Iraq--despite Hussein denying UN resolutions for a decade.

The UN has had a history of anti-American activity. Despite 14 resolutions demanding that Hussein comply, the UN was very negative to his outing by the Allies. Flaws in the Oil-for-Food program: 1)all deals were confidential between Hussein and the UN, 2)Hussein would select the parties who would buy the Iraqi oil, and 3)he would select the suppliers of the humanitarian aid. But now, the US ‘GAO’ estimates that Hussein skimmed as much as $10 million from the program. It all went either directly to Hussein, or to supporters of his regime. We know at least 50 countries had benefited.

At the top—Russia---with 4 pages of entries detailing voucher recipients that total over a billion barrels of crude. Now we know why Russians opposed the war in Iraq from the very beginning. France, also opposing the war, was second with oil vouchers for 150.8 million barrels. Syria was third with 14 names accounting for 116.9 million barrels. Remember, Syria was even announced in the book by Iraqi General Gorges Sadaas(Saddam’s Secrets) as the beneficiary of most of Hussein’s WMD’s before the invasion.

The US pays for 31.7% of peacekeeping and other UN missions. The next highest--Japan at 12.5%. We should keep in mind that the D.O.D. incurs hundreds of millions every year for US military participation in missions not reimbursed by the UN. The UN budget in 2004-05 was $3.608 billion. It is estimated that the US contribution in (just)2003 was well over $3.0 billion.

Let’s back up for just a second. The US already contributes billions to such disasters as African AIDS, Mideast peacekeeping, the Indonesian tsunami, Katrina(last year), etc., etc… Now the US is supposed to give billions more for an agency who never backs up its own resolutions, allows Hussein to starve his own people, was anti-American during the Iraq invasion that ‘outed’ certain countries on the ‘take’ in Oil-for-Food, destroyed the 4000 year-old institution of marriage, envisions human rights as a ‘joystick’, has determined that the killing of the unborn is a ‘right’, and has dramatically less power than NATO?

Remind me than the next person who yells ‘deficit’ better have his priorities put in order.