I don’t know why anyone would be surprised, but I’m angry as hell about this. Saddam was paying off the French diplomats with the UN-run Oil For Food program, those Frenchies backstabbed Colin Powell and now ABC News has found from the Saddam Files that the Russian Ambassador handed over our war plan to Iraq.
Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit’s summaries of five documents from Saddam Hussein’s government, which the U.S. government has released.
The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more. The full documents can be found on the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office Web site.
Note: Document titles were added by ABC News.
“U.S. War Plan Leaked to Iraqis by Russian Ambassador”
Documents dated March 5-8, 2003
Two Iraqi documents dated in March 2003 — on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion — and addressed to the secretary of Saddam Hussein, describe details of a U.S. plan for war. According to the documents, the plan was disclosed to the Iraqis by the Russian ambassador.
The first document (CMPC-2003-001950) is a handwritten account of a meeting with the Russian ambassador that details his description of the composition, size, location and type of U.S. military forces arrayed in the Gulf and Jordan. The document includes the exact numbers of tanks, armored vehicles, different types of aircraft, missiles, helicopters, aircraft carriers, and other forces, and also includes their exact locations. The ambassador also described the positions of two Special Forces units.
The second document (CMPC-2004-001117) is a typed account, signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Hammam Abdel Khaleq, that states that the Russian ambassador has told the Iraqis that the United States was planning to deploy its force into Iraq from Basra in the South and up the Euphrates, and would avoid entering major cities on the way to Baghdad, which is, in fact what happened. The documents also state “Americans are also planning on taking control of the oil fields in Kirkuk.” The information was obtained by the Russians from “sources at U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar,” according to the document.
This document also includes an account of an amusing incident in which several Iraqi Army officers (presumably seeking further elaboration of the U.S. war plans) contacted the Russian Embassy in Baghdad and stated that the ambassador was their source. Needless to say, this caused great embarrassment to the ambassador, and the officers were instructed “not to mention the ambassador again in that context.”
(ABC News Editor’s Note: The Russian ambassador in March 2003 was Vladimir Teterenko. Teterenko appears in documents released by the Volker Commission, which investigated the Oil for Food scandal, as receiving allocations of 3 million barrels of oil — worth roughly $1.5 million. )
This is stunningly outrageous and I think it is about time the United States held the United Nations and our backstabbing allies to account for their deceit and support of terrorism against our country through Iraq. Imagine how much more we are going to find out since these first few translated documents are just a small part of the whole kit and kaboodle. It certainly puts the whole Jan-Mar 2003 UN debate on Iraq in a new and pathetic light.
I do have to praise ABC News for taking my advice…. it appears they are the only national news organization that is taking an interest in translating the Saddam Files. I have a feeling there will be a lot of liberals eating crow over the next few weeks.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
“I have a feeling there will be a lot of liberals eating crow over the next few weeks.”
Yawn. When are you wingnuts going to quit creaming your pants every time Bushco pulls your strings with some new “smoking gun”? Frankly your Commander Codpiece and his cronies would stand a good chance of being indicted for war crimes should they make the mistake of venturing overseas once they are out of office. The American people are finally opening their eyes and I suspect the results won’t be pretty for all the whiny assed titty babies who cheered on this war of aggression.
Hey Ian..
I’m too buzzed to be polite, so you’ll pardon me if I ask you to kindly go fuck yourself, as you’re obviously not getting any signifigant play at the usual shitholes you’ve been frequenting.
What a complete fuckwit.
Eric in Hollywood
Ian is obviously on the Left of things. There’s nothing a friend or enemy could do against America that he wouldn’t be at peace with. America is the real enemy. These terrorists and decadent and dying nations stabbing us in the back are just noise to them.
ABC News knows that there’s a hell of lot “glory in the story” for them on this one and beating FoxNews to the ring is a huge win for ABC News.
I wonder if all those Senators, former Clinton cabinet members, Congressmen, and news pundits will be offering retractions for their post-invasion comments along the lines of:
“I fault this Administration for not working cooperatively with our friends in the UN –France, Germany, Russia… or
I fault this Administration for not consulting diplomatically with countries who had a strategic interest in Iraq before the invasion… or
I fault this Administration for the bitter, mean spirited approach to limiting reconstruction contracts to US and British companues…”
I wonder. Come out, come out, where ever you are….
#2 Perhaps if you weren’t in the habit of getting buzzed you could respond to posts without resorting to repetitons of the f-word. But then, perhaps not.
#3 Ah yes, the tired old opposition to Bushco’s war on Iraq is treason meme. With the majority of Americans now opposing that war, I think you need a new shtick.
what majority are u speaking of ian? a poll of 1,000 ppl? there are over 217 million over the age of 18 in america 1,000 ppl is really not much of a majority even if they did 1,000 polls still not going to get a majority…….. i mean look at how many war protesters there were this time around more ppl show up at a denny’s grand opening than a war protest in Wash D.C.
For me, what’s stunning is that it was the Russians and not the French who gave Saddam’s regime details of the invasion –but this is probably only the first documented source… there’s still time to find documents that detail France’s collective effort to undermine coalition effortsm pre-war, post-war.
Ian said…
“Perhaps if you weren’t in the habit of getting buzzed you could respond to posts without resorting to repetitons of the f-word. But then, perhaps not.”
And perhaps if you weren’t such a complete halfwit, you wouldn’t resort to the posting the same ignorant bullshit time and again.
You’re a tool. Embrace it…own it, sweetie.
Eric in Hollywood
Read Treachery by Bill Gertz …………… there were literally hundreds of Russian specialist that were going through there trying to shred all evidence of their involvement in the days before the war started when you have a totalitarian government everything has to be done in multiple copies but there is never enough shredding capabilty to get them all.
this is from John Shaw the deputy undersecetary of defense for international technology security
#6: You would really benefit from a remedial course in elementary statistics. But then, perhaps you were home-schooled like Box Turtle Ben, Redstate.com hero and co-founder, who’s turned out to be a serial plagiarist. I suppose it’s not all that surprising: with such a gang of chronic liars as Bushco to look up to how else is an aspiring wingnut expected to get ahead? What’s even more pathetic is to read BTB’s defenders at redstate actually defend plagiarism itself!
#8: Well, at least you sobered up enough to omit the f-word from every sentence. Still no substance but that’s some progress I suppose.
Ian since you are so wise please tell the group how a poll of 1,000 ppl is supposed to equate to a majority of 217 million …….polls are pointless a poll in 84 had reagan and mondale nearly dead even 4 months b4 the election
Ian won’t answer any substantive questions largely because he can’t.
My mistake for calling a moonbat a moonbat. Much like my dog, you divert his attention away from the issue at hand, and all he cares to do is chase the ball and sniff a few butts.
Doesn’t change the fact that he’s moron, unfortunately.
Eric in Hollywood
#12 Polls are not pointless. Properly conducted polls on 1000 people can come close (within a few percent) to what the response would be if the entire population were polled. It’s one of the many interesting things about the mathematical statistics related to large populations. Consequently, polls are used by virtually everyone across the political spectrum. The methodology of individual polls may be questioned but the mathematics upon which opinion polls are based is sound. Reputable pollsters try hard to eliminate methodology errors. For more details, I suggest you try wikipedia for an entry on “opinion polls” or just google the term.
Ian that is such crap there is no way on earth that anyone can justify polling 1000 ppl can give u any inkling of an idea of what 217 million are thinking i mean if u want an open and honest poll you should ask basic simple questions that are factual before hand (i.e. who is americas # 1 oil supplier) (ask that question to 10 ppl see what the result is) to weed out the ones whos opinons are based on non-facts and just flat out not knowing
Not at all surprising. Russia, France and Germany were all selling Hussein weapons behind our backs, all the way through the 90s.
Allies? No way.
#15: “weed out the ones whos opinons are based on non-facts and just flat out not knowing”
So, you don’t think conservatives should be polled? 😉 In any event, I’ve pointed you in the direction to learn more about opinion polls and statistics. If you choose not to, that’s your perogative.
I recall an interesting tidbit from an article on the CIA and spies. (I don’t remember where it came from, Newsweek or Time I think).
Apparently there are now more Russian spies in the US than there were at the height of the Cold War. Mostly after technology of course.
Ah yes, the tired old opposition to Bushco’s war on Iraq is treason meme. With the majority of Americans now opposing that war, I think you need a new shtick.
Of course they oppose the war, Ian. You’ve done a fine job of hiding the truth up to this point about just how brutal Saddam was, just how corrupt the UN was, and just how much liberals like yourself were being paid to keep him in power.
But unfortunately, against your wishes and despite the best efforts of your grand wizard Ramsey Clark, Pandora’s box is open, and the American public will finally get to see just what it was you liberals who “opposed the war” had involved in doing so.
Of course, Mother Sheehan’s already blown your cover by revealing that Democrats and liberals opposed the removal of the Taliban, think terrorists are “freedom fighters”, and have been channeling them money for years. But what will be even more interesting is what happens as documents like these trickle out, with conservatives finally taking advantage of the fact that the only thing stronger than liberals’ grip on the media is the media’s addiction to “breaking the story”.
That, sir, is a classic. My hat is off.
RWP. it’s because of true teachers like you that I am able to think for myself. I was fortunate enough to have thoughful professors on both sides of the aisle, and as a result, I was left to make my own conclusions.
My hat, sir, is off to you! I can only hope that when my boy is old enough to attend university, he is as fortunate as I was.
Eric in Hollywood
Huh…. so there was a plan?
Russia/China aiding Iraq, Pakistan aiding Al-Qaeda, AQ Khan opening up a nuclear Walmart.
what else can we blame Clinton for?
Oh irony! Thy name is Ian!