1. Fontessa on April 7th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
   

   Doesn’t this dove-tail with claims by captured Iraqi scientists early in the war—that Saddam transferred all the nasties—WMDs—to Syria via commercial jet liners, with truck-load after truck-load of the heavy stuff crossing the border for months on end. Saddam, for all his bluster, did believe the Americans et al were coming. Of course this was another story the MSM did not report since it was great sport to mock GWB for not finding any WMDs.
2. sargevining on April 7th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
   

   NO NO NO!

   It’s a trick by the throughly frightening John McCain!

   We’ve managed to keep him from attacking Iran like he wants to, so he’s going to attack Syria instead!

   Be afraid of John McCain! BE AFRAID OF JOHN MC CAIN! BE AFRAID OF JOHN MC CAIN!,/b>
3. Darren10 on April 7th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
   

   Didn’t a former Hussein general write a book about this fact a couple of years ago?
4. Rastus on April 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
   

   I thought we weren’t allowed to use Obama’s middle name any more.
5. Adee on April 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
   

   Vindication of WMDs as real, not figments of the Bush administration, nevermind what Saddam’s general said about them being spirited out of Iraq to Iran and Syria? Hope the MSM chokes on the news, and that includes all the haughty, snotty reporters, analysts, and management.
6. squawkbox on April 7th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
   

   Bolsters my argument that the United States should have kicked Iran and Syria’s ass right from jump street. But that is OK the surge is working and there are plans on the table to bring more troops home.
7. sargevining on April 7th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
   

   But that is OK the surge is working and there are plans on the table to bring more troops home.

   Yah–

   I remember how you told us that Bush was going to “stride up to the podium and cave in to Democrat pressure and reduce troop levels using Petreaus’ testimony in August as an excuse.

   Musta been a pretty dam slow stride.
8. squawkbox on April 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
   

   And Bush has already said that they are readying to pull even more troops out. With each withdrawal of troops
   1. Bush is caving to pressure
   I don’t need a number 2.

   and he did use the Patreus report to announce the “drawdown.” So what’s yer point? I think they are wrong.

   1. We have not won
   2. The country is not secure
   3. the enemy still retains the ability to re-man and re-arm
   4. The story above proves me right about the proxy war being fought by IranSyria.
   5. This so called slowdown is only time spent for the bad guys to retool.

   Goodnight Serge’ I ain’t got time for you.

   REPUBLICANS GOOD DEMOCRATS BAD
   The 2008 World Tour.
9. pimlico on April 7th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
   

   So now it’s BUSH DIDN”T LIE and people died??!! Also does this mean that the UK intelligence stuff was right too? yellow cake etc. Does this mean that Powell can come out of hiding and be relieved that his UN speech was NOT A CROCK?? The trouble with life is: we have to go on a ‘working model’. Most often the MODEL has to be adjusted in some way. Maybe the left wing blogs can get their profanities off of their pages for a few days.
10. pimlico on April 7th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
    

    The only other thing that worries me, is what if this was really about gatting back at Saddam for trying to kill GHW Bush. If syria and Iran have the Stuff. and we didn’t close the borders, Can we at least have some of Iraq’s OIL?
11. golfer1 on April 8th, 2008 at 7:07 am
    

    Our “no, Duh” comment from the Glick article:

    “Notably the US official who has been most consistent in highlighting Iran’s central role in Iraq is US Commander in Iraq General David Petreaus. Petreaus and his officers, whose job it is to win the war in Iraq, apparently understand what the administration has spent the past five years ignoring. They understand that to secure the public support necessary to fight a long war, they need to tell the American public what the war is about, who the US is fighting and what is at stake.”

    I just wish that G.W. would do a better job of telling Americans what we’re up against…
12. Maltboy! on April 8th, 2008 at 9:50 am
    

    You folks ought to know by now what the MSM and other liberal’s response will be:

    “WMDs? Who cares? That’s old news.”
13. ShinerBlonde on April 8th, 2008 at 10:53 am
    

    #11 - golfer1 - My thoughts exactly. Although, the part of the article that evoked that loudest “Duh?” from me was
    

    And yet, rather than make clear to Congress and to the US public that the war in Iraq is not an Iraqi war per se but a key battleground in a regional war in which Iran and Syria have combined forces on multiple fronts in a bid to defeat the US and its allies, the Bush administration obfuscates that central truth. For the past five years, key administration officials have repeated the bizarre claim that Iran and Syria share the US’s interest in bringing stability to Iraq and that responsibility for ending the war rests solely on the shoulders of Iraq’s government rather than on the shoulders of the foreign governments who are waging the war.

    The administration itself then holds a major portion of responsibility for the fact that five years after US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, the majority of Americans believes that the US doesn’t have an interest in what happens in post-Saddam Iraq and should simply remove its forces from the country at the first opportunity. If the administration was less concerned about obfuscating Syrian and Iranian centrality in the war, there can be little doubt that more Americans would understand why it is essential that the US not allow Iraq to fall into their hands. Indeed, a larger number of Americans would understand that Iran and Syria are waging this proxy war against coalition forces and Iraqis in a bid to advance their goal of regional dominance.

    I’ve read and re-read all the supposed reasons why Bush has “obfuscated” the truth but they still makes absolutely no sense to me. There’s got to be more to the story…
14. slash on April 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
    

    You can’t make anything clear to someone that refuses to listen.

    Anything that was said about the WMD’s after Iraq started was boo’d down from the cheap seats. Hell, no one said a thing when a roadside IED was found to have a nerve gas artillery shell! DUH! I guess that was the last one, right? Bulldroppings!

    One thing is for certain: for politicians, perception is everything. It doesn’t matter if we are in Iraq for the right reasons, if the administration or Pentagon had given it’s real reasons, the (internal) enemies of our nation would have adapted their arguments, against reason, to suit themselves.

    It’s all fun and games ’till the sarin starts to fall out of the sky.

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