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AMEN AMEN!!!!
Great piece. Rocketsbrain's for several years has maintained Saddam's WMD went to Syria.
I also agree with your assessment why this info is being held back. You would think the LL and the MSM would be all over this but again they're too flamed out on the meme, "Bush lied, People died."
I too believe this is a diplomatic trump card being held close to the vest in a game of Texas hold'em pocker re the Iranian situation.
I've posted some of key passages of Gen. Sada's book on my site. I'm a law enforcement investigator with over 30 yrs exp and I can generally spot a "con." My gut feeling is that Gen. Sada is telling the truth of what he knows. Gen. Sada is a true Iraqi patriot genuinely concerned for the new Iraq and the Iraqi people.
Read more at:
www.rocketsbrain.com
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I've gotten to know Sada fairly well and he's the real deal. He's risking way too much to be doing this for money or fame.
KM is exactly on point in saying that Bush doesn't want to embarrass Russia and Putin, who are up to their elbows as accomplices. (France and Germany are dirty too.)
But I think it's even more dangerous to leave WMDs in Syria.
Barnett's article is... interesting.
One of the chief problems of State is how to manage succession. The US system has certainly been effective, maintaining what is clearly the oldest major government on the face of the planet (excluding some random ancient autonomous city-state like "Lichtensteinistan" or "San Andorra" or whatever).
Yes, we are a "young" nation but our government is the oldest one around. All other major governments have gone through a major restructuring at best (UK from Pure Monarchy to a Parliamentary one with a Figurehead being the mildest), usually by the force of armed revolution.
And the fact of its effectiveness is in the 2000 elections -- a defacto Constitutional Crisis occurred, with the successor signal being swamped by the noise on the line. Despite this, instead of resorting to arms we resorted to legal maneuvers to resolve the problem, because the parties in question, among other things, knew the people would not accept a succession-by-force.
I say this because I think that Democracy, for all its flaws, does represent an incredibly stable system -- since it gives the people a vested interest in the leaders (perceived-only or real, it is there), it puts a strong pressure on the succession to be by rule of law rather than via force of arms.
Whether this new Russian government-by-corporate elite will work is going to make for an interesting future for the Russians.
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