{"id":31109,"date":"2012-07-27T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T09:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31109"},"modified":"2012-07-27T05:49:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T09:49:30","slug":"ana-aasif-would-you-have-any-grey-poupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31109","title":{"rendered":"Ana aasif, would you have any Grey Poupon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no surprise to those who have followed the intel on the post invasion of Iraq that in all likelihood the remaining WMD stockpiles in Iraq went to Syria as U.S. troops invaded the country. While the media was decrying the supposed absence of WMDs in the country, and Hollywood writers were busy writing left wing fantasies such as The Green Zone<\/a>, the Saddam regime had already sent the bulk of both its fixed wing air assets and its chemical weapons<\/a> over the border into the custody of the neighboring Baathist regime’s hands. I remember talking to a MSgt friend in Marine Corps intel back in 2005 about the embarrassing lack of stockpiles in Iraq. He simply laughed at me and said, “Dude, that’s because it’s all in Syria.” He made sure to follow with, “And you didn’t hear that from me because I don’t know shit. Feel me?”<\/p>\n

Back then, as always, the same diligent academics and journalists who were so enthralled by the current President were a tad too over eager to chronicle history before the final verdict came in. I don’t refer to the slightly preemptive feel good awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for proper posturing, good vibes and swell intentions. I refer to the willful ignorance of reams of intelligence indicating that not only did the Saddam regime still have WMDs in 2002 but, in fact, had consciously transferred them<\/a> through the Wild West of Iraq, the same porous region which occupied Marines for years as they attempted to stop the flow of weapons and jihadists flowing the opposite direction as they battled the “Iraqi freedom fighters” hell bent on blowing up Shia holy sites and neighborhoods. <\/p>\n

Yesterday Victor Davis Hanson, one of the good guys, and a superbly articulate Professor of History, spelled this out<\/a> in his usually devastating manner:<\/p>\n

There are suggestions that at least some of Assad\u2019s supposed stockpile may have come from Saddam Hussein\u2019s frantic, eleventh-hour efforts in 2002 to hide his own arsenals of weapons of mass destruction in neighboring Syria. Various retired Iraqi military officers have alleged as much. Although the story was met with general neglect or scorn from the American media, the present U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper, long ago asserted his belief in such a weapons transfer.<\/p>\n

The Bush administration fixated on WMD in justifying the invasion of Iraq while largely ignoring more than 20 other writs to remove Saddam, as authorized by Congress in October 2002. That obsession would come back to haunt George W. Bush when stockpiles of deployable WMD failed to turn up in postwar Iraq. By 2006, \u201cBush lied; thousands died,\u201d was the serial charge of the antiwar Left. But before long, such depots may finally turn up in Syria.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The moral of the story is that history cannot be written as it unfolds. In the case of Iraq, we still don\u2019t know the full story of Saddam\u2019s WMD, the grand strategic effects of the Iraq War, the ripples from the creation of the Iraqi republic, or the relative degree of incompetence of any American administration at war in the Middle East \u2014 and we won\u2019t for many years to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so us jingos, fanatics and serial warmongers wait, as we always do, to again be vindicated by the ebb and flow of historical events. Which is, perhaps, the reason George W. Bush sits so contently, and without concern, ready for the final, actual judgement of history to be levied.<\/p>\n