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Yes, my friends, he still had the intention to reconstitute his WMD programs (I thought he never, ever, ever, had nukes or anything harmful to anyone, guess the media got this one wrong). This proves that the administration did not lie about Iraq. Saddam had every intention of building nukes; just at the right time.

Don’t expect an apology from any of your liberal friends though. They’ll focus on the fact that he didn’t have nukes at the time (he, evidently, lied about having nukes to ward off an invasion from Iran). But that isn’t what is important. What is important is the fact that he had a history of using WMDs (gassing the Kurds, anyone?) and had the engineers and the technology in place to restart the program at any time. Did the libs really want us to leave a madman in power of a potential nuclear state or did they just want to try and tear down a decent man so they could advance their agenda? You know where I stand.

One last important thing from Saddam’s confessions: he still takes credit for the insurgency. Yup, even though the agent who debriefed Saddam and CBS doubt this and chalk it up to Arab machismo Saddam, to his last breath, took credit for the “secret war.” Now maybe it was machismo but maybe not.

And if he had a hand in the insurgency wouldn’t that mean that he had connections to terrorist organizations like al Qaeda? A lot of the insurgents that have been subsequently smashed by our surge came from foreign lands and somehow they knew where they would find friends in Iraq. It would make more sense if Saddam or someone in the Iraqi government (which would mean that person or persons were under the order of Saddam to help the insurgents) orchestrated the insurgency, at least at first.

Saddam’s confessions provide an insight into the mind of a diabolical dictator. I will be watching 60 Minutes on Sunday to find out more. Until then remember that he was planning on building WMDs and he still took credit for a foreign insurgency. Thank God we took him out before he could cause some serious damage.

(CBS) Saddam Hussein initially didn’t think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.

Piro, in his first television interview, relays this and other revelations to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley this Sunday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Piro spent almost seven months debriefing Saddam in a plan based on winning his confidence by convincing him that Piro was an important envoy who answered to President Bush. This and being Saddam’s sole provider of items like writing materials and toiletries made the toppled Iraqi president open up to Piro, a Lebanese-American and one of the few FBI agents who spoke Arabic. “He told me he initially miscalculated… President Bush’s intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998…a four-day aerial attack,” says Piro. “He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack.” “He didn’t believe the U.S. would invade?” asks Pelley, “No, not initially,” answers Piro.

Once the invasion was certain, says Piro, Saddam asked his generals if they could hold the invaders for two weeks. “And at that point, it would go into what he called the secret war,” Piro tells Pelley. But Piro isn’t convinced that the insurgency was Saddam’s plan. “Well, he would like to take credit for the insurgency,” says Piro.

Saddam still wouldn’t admit he had no weapons of mass destruction, even when it was obvious there would be military action against him because of the perception he did. Because, says Piro, “For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that [faking having the weapons] would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq,” he tells Pelley. He also intended and had the wherewithal to restart the weapons program. “Saddam] still had the engineers. The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there,” says Piro. “He wanted to pursue all of WMD…to reconstitute his entire WMD program.” This included chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, Piro says.

Saddam bragged that he changed his routine and security to elude capture. “What he wanted to really illustrate is…how he was able to outsmart us,” says Piro. “He told me he changed…the way he traveled. He got rid of his normal vehicles. He got rid of the protective detail that he traveled with, really just to change his signature.”

It took nine months to finally capture Saddam, but U.S. calculations on where he might be early on turned out to be accurate. Saddam was at Dora Farms early in the war when the known presidential site was targeted with tons of bombs and many missiles. “He said it in a kind of a bragging fashion that he was there, but that we missed him. He wasn’t bothered by the fact that he was there,” Piro tells Pelley.

Source: cbsnews.com

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