And HRH Hillary has put up the 45 million dollar ransom?

The One told us you have to expect some ‘bumps in the road’. Guess next he’ll be telling the world to man up and get used to ‘a few nasty little boo-boos’.

The notion that the admin doesn’t want to find chemical weapons in Syria because they might be from Iraq is also conspiracy theory talk. It would make absolutely no sense for Saddam to have turned over WMD to Iran’s main ally in the region.

read this article very carefully. That isn’t what Panetta says at all. He even concedes that the Iranian Pasdaran might have possession of them. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/panetta-syria-moved-chemical-weapons-17348515#.UGb1j03BGSo

It is a story which just will not go away: Iraqi chemical weapons (and worse?) smuggled out quickly to Syria in the early days of the U.S./Coalition of the Willing invasion of Iraq.

Some think Saddam would have done no such thing: if he had them, he would have used them against the U.S.-led Coalition! Why send lethal weapons away to be hidden?

On the other hand, people are not always logical, or are thinking in different ways. Could Saddam have been thinking long-term of using the weapons later in a guerrilla war of attrition against any occupation?

One fact is clear, which even the pooh-poohers admit: there were large convoys going into Syria with something back then. The pictures exist, the eyewitnesses are still around.

Here is a debate on the topic – biased of course – from The Atlantic:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/did-syria-receive-its-chemical-weapons-saddam/55142/

Excerpts:

“… a smug Victor Davis Hanson at Investors Business Daily said
the media was wrong to so eagerly dismiss the story of Hussein’s 11th
hour smuggling adventure. “Although the story was met with general
neglect or scorn from the U.S. media, the present director of national
intelligence, James Clapper, long ago asserted his belief in such a
weapons transfer,” he writes. That’s true. As director of the National
Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Clapper said in 2003 that satellite
images showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq to Syria “unquestionably” show that illicit weapons were moved out of Iraq. ”

And:

(Kris Alexander, an officer in the U.S. Army) “…let’s say that Saddam wasn’t so concerned about the Americans — a miscalculation that Saddam seems to have made.
That’s actually not a rationale for transferring weapons to Syria. Just
like in 1991, he faced the collapse of his regime. Except back then, he
slaughtered jubilant Shiites and used chemical weapons on the Kurds. Why, in 2003, would Saddam give up the worst threat he could make against his people?”

the latter question is easy. He thought he’d be able to survive the attack and negotiate a peace short of regime change. He’d already survived in 1990 so it wan’t an unrealistic expectation. If the weapons were sent out of country, Scott Ritter could stop chasing pre-pubescent girls and return to look for weapons and not find them.

I know you’re, thankfully, a ghost, but here’s the relevant cite from the article lest some unsuspecting person read your comments and come to the incorrect conclusion that you can either read or think.

Syria’s chemical weapons are top concern for the U.S. and for regional allies worried that they could let be stolen by rebels or terrorists organizations, or given to Iran for safekeeping.

Bolding is mine.

Exactly.

Saddam had MORE weapons in 1991, and he didn’t use them THEN either… Something about the US, UK, and Israel all ‘diplomatically’ promising (eg, implying) they’d respond with nuclear weapons….

His strategy for 2003, as evidenced by forming the Fedayeen, was to fight a war of attrition, and then come back as the ‘triumphant survivor’ promising order from chaos, after we quit…

Except we didn’t quit, and he didn’t survive to see us leave….

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The logic, would be that Syria was not a US ally & the US would not violate their sovreignty…

And that Saddam could get some of the weapons back after he ‘won’ by surviving the next war… Which was his plan (create chaos, make us quit, come back and regain power)….

he had a lot of blister agent. That stuff still injures people in Verdun after nearly a century.

He also had substantial stocks of VX-like nerve agent which has a shelf life of decades.

Oh man!!! I can’t imagine the look on Obambi’s face if they found Saddam’s chemical weapons in Syria! He’d probably swim all the way back to Kenyaah!

The Obama Administration does have a frightening ability to lose weapons whether to Mexican Drug Cartel thugs or terrorist thugs. I mean they know this aids the thugs in performing their acts of thuggery; I mean they know this right?

It will turn out that there are no functioning Chem weapons (or biological ones) in Syria…they have not existed for a decade plus. they are to hard for the locals to store and maintain

These are the same missing WMD that Saddam Hussein lost……..try looking in Turkey maybe the Kurds have them.

Years ago before it was an issue I began writing about how dozes of planeloads form a 707 and 747 with the seats removed all contained WMDs poisonous gas etc. and were flown from Iraq into Syria by then Gen. Sada. Later on he wrote a book on the event and even made the rounds with all the pertinent talk show hosts.Today its news.This is the WDM the Bush administration always referred to that never existed according to the DBM.
Zero will stay as far away from this as he can since it would reflect poorly on his mgmt. of the arab spring which is more like an Arab winter with thousands of dead arabs lining the ditches of despair in country after country.
We have elected a Manchurian, time to vote him out.

Quite true: people forget the conclusion of the WMD report that Iraq was a far more dangerous place than anyone thought, even without finding the stockpiles, because things were so ubiquitous and out of control.

If you want a scary scenario of just what chem weapons were around the world almost ten years ago you can go here. Its really scary what exists.

http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/29/syrian-chemical-weapons-have-gone-missing/