Saddam Hussein Bluffed About WMDs Fearing Iranian Arsenal, Declassified FBI Files Show


	Saddam Hussein Bluffed About WMDs Fearing Iranian Arsenal, Declassified FBI Files Show

etellefs

6-26-2009 12:52 PM

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etellefs says:

Gosh, isn't the Iraq war so "worth it"?

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Bush “to protect” Iraq from its neighbor, once secret FBI files show.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cryptogon.com/?p=9480"><EM>The FBI interrogations of the toppled tyrant – codename “Desert Spider” – were declassified after a Freedom of Information Act request.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cryptogon.com/?p=9480"><EM>The records show Saddam happily boasted of duping the world about stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. 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