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You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
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Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:11:34 GMT
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As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
It is time for all of the anti-war crowd that are "sitting on the fence"
because there isn't enough "evidence" or are waiting for a "smoking gun" to
come clean. They are against the war because they are *anti-Bush*. They
haven't gotten over the fact that Bush won ("stole";-) the election, and so
their objectivity over the Saddam crisis is MIA. They are like a petulant
child who hasn't gotten their way, the fact is that NO AMOUNT of evidence will
be sufficient to change their minds, and so they are exposed for the dishonest
frauds and political hacks that they are.
I give to you an article by William Safire as more "evidence" that Saddam is a
bold-faced liar, a stockpiler of WMD, and a threat to humanity.
It is time for the Left to wake up and smell the MOAB.
JOHN
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The French Connection
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
WASHINGTON
France, China and Syria all have a common reason for keeping American and
British troops out of Iraq: the three nations may not want the world to
discover that their nationals have been illicitly supplying Saddam Hussein with
materials used in building long-range surface-to-surface missiles.
We're not talking about short-range Al Samoud 2 missiles, which Saddam is
ostentatiously destroying to help his protectors avert an invasion, nor his old
mobile Scuds. The delivery system for mass destruction warheads requires a much
more sophisticated propulsion system and fuels.
If you were running the Iraqi ballistic missiles project, where in the world
would you go to buy the chemical that is among the best binders for solid
propellant?
Answer: to 116 DaWu Road in Zibo, a city in the Shandong Province of China,
where a company named Qilu Chemicals is a leading producer of a transparent
liquid rubber named hydroxy terminated polybutadiene, familiarly known in the
advanced-rocket trade as HTPB.
But you wouldn't want the word "chemicals" to appear anywhere on the purchase
because that might alert inspectors enforcing sanctions, so you employ a couple
of cutouts. One is an import-export company with which Qilu Chemicals often
does business.
To be twice removed from the source, you would turn to CIS Paris, a Parisian
broker that is active in dealings of many kinds with Baghdad. Its director is
familiar with the order but denies being the agent.
A shipment of 20 tons of HTPB, whose sale to Iraq is forbidden by U.N.
resolutions and the oil-for-food agreement, left China in August 2002 in a
40-foot container. It arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus (fortified by the
Knights Templar in 1183, and the Mediterranean terminus for an Iraqi oil
pipeline today) and was received there by a trading company that was an
intermediary for the Iraqi missile industry, the end user. The HTPB was then
trucked across Syria to Iraq.
Syria has no sophisticated missile-building program. What rocket weaponry it
has comes off the shelf (and usually on credit) from Russia, so it therefore
has no use for HTPB. But cash-starved Syria is the conduit for missile supplies
to cash-flush Saddam, as this shipment demonstrates. We will have to wait until
after the war to find out how much other weaponry, for what huge fees, Saddam
has stored in currently un-inspectable Syrian warehouses.
The French connection ? brokering the deal among the Chinese producer, the
Syrian land transporter and the Iraqi buyer ? is no great secret to the world's
arms merchants. French intelligence has long been aware of it. The requirement
for a French export license as well as U.N. sanctions approval may have been
averted by disguising it as a direct offshore sale from China to Syria.
I'm also told that a contract was signed last April in Paris for five tons of
99 percent unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine, another advanced missile fuel, which
is produced by France's Société Nationale des Poudre et Explosifs. In addition,
Iraqi attempts to buy an oxidizer for solid propellant missiles, ammonium
perchlorate, were successful, at least on paper. Both chemicals, like HTPB,
require explicit approval by the U.N. Sanctions Committee before they can be
sold to Iraq.
Perhaps a few intrepid members of the Chirac Adoration Society, formerly known
as the French media, will ask France's lax export-control authorities about
these shipments. U.N. inspectors looking at Iraq's El Sirat trading company
might try to follow its affiliate, the Gudia Bureau, to dealings in Paris.
Is this account what journalists call a "keeper," one held back for publication
at a critical moment, made more newsworthy by the Security Council debate? No;
I've been poking around for only about a week, starting with data originating
from an Arab source, not from the C.I.A. (Anti-Kurdish analysts at Langley have
it in for me for embarrassing them for 18 months on Al Qaeda's ties to Saddam,
especially in the terrorist Ansar enclave in Iraqi Kurdistan.)
This detail about the France-China-Syria-Iraq propellant collaboration makes
for dull reading, but reveals some of the motivation behind the campaign of
those nations to suppress the truth. The truth, however, will out.
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