Loftus and the Saddam tapes

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When I first heard of the existence of the Saddam Tapes, I was mildly interested. After all, from a purely academic point of view, it would be fascinating to listen to the dictator and try and discover how his mind worked. Saddam is surely one of the most destructive leaders that lived during the 20th century. Not quite in the Hitler/Stalin/Mao class but rather more of a second tier thug, easily as evil as Idi Amin or Slobodon Milosivec.But when John Loftus, the organizer of this weekend’s “Intelligence Summit” came out and said that there was a “smoking gun” in these tapes that proved the existence of WMD in Iraq prior to our invasion, I was skeptical. I remembered from the Duelfer Report that close aides to Saddam had routinely lied to the dictator about his own WMD program so any conversations about WMD on the tapes would have to be listened to bearing that in mind.

And I also had to consider the source himself. Yesterday, I said that Loftus was considered a “gadfly” by the intelligence establishment. As it turns out, I was being too kind by half.

Rick Moran does a little checking and finds out that Loftus is not exactly credible.

Comments

  1. Captain Ed wrote:

    Hey, I would have loved to have seen a smoking gun in the tapes, but all they prove is that Saddam would have rebuilt his WMD programs the instant he was freed of the sanctions. Maybe other tapes have more, but the tapes aired on ABC won’t significantly change the debate at all.

    I did laugh at the MSM spin: “Saddam Warned US Of Terrorism”. No wonder I felt so safe in the 1990s — Saddam had my back!

    Posted 17 Feb 2006 at 10:17 am

  2. Rusty wrote:

    I was going to go to the meeting tomorrow, but I ran out of aluminum foil. I hear John Loftus hands it out to all particpants, but there’s no way I’m wearing some generic tin foil on my head! I was born a Reynold’s wrap man, and I’ll die a Reynold’s wrap man!!

    Posted 17 Feb 2006 at 11:46 am

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