>>This "apparently a Christian" guy is a "born again" and ex-Chaldeian, now Presbyterian... in Iraq. And he's on this or other high position in the puppet regime government. Which somehow makes him an, ahem, source?
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>Not sure what you're getting at with the "Christian" thing. I only mentioned it, because the only negative comments I dug up on him were people criticizing him for being Christian, which I thought was strange... as if that somehow matters to whether or not he's credible.
It's the Presbyterian that gets me. There are Christian populations among the Arabs - in Egypt and Lebanon, for example - but they are mostly Orthodox or local, and were there since the Roman times. From what I found, Presbyterianism is a purely Western thing, hence an import. That this guy has reached such heights in Hussein's state is more a proof of its secular nature.
And he's converted twice - once from the local Chaldeian into Presbyterian, then from allegiance to Hussein to allegiance to the puppet regime. All the less reason to trust this guy.
>His position in the Iraqi Air Force during Saddam's reign makes him a "source." Credibility is something to be seen.
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>>C'mon, you guys have dismissed truckloads of evidence only because the website it was on had a word you don't like in its name, and now this guy is supposed to produce some evidence that even CIA refused to "produce", and maybe even convince someone?
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>Sweet! There's truckloads of evidence? Missed that somehow.
Try Downing Street minutes, for one. Or Sen. John Konyers's site.
The case I had in mind was the link to the German video shot at in New Orleans right after the Prez. Bush's photo-op was dismantled, when all the water and food were whisked away as soon as the cameras stopped rolling. Whoever from the rightwing side was commenting on this tried to discredit the thing simply by the name of the site where I found the link - it probably sounded too liberal - regardless of the actual source of the link, which was the German ZDF network. And the next day I found that another German network also had the same story by their own reporter.
> Anyway, this guy claims to have personally witnessed many planes being loaded with weapons and flown to Syria not long before the invasion. Don't know what kind of evidence he can provide. Names, maybe? Flight paths? Time frames? If it's true, you gotta wonder why did it take so long for him to come forward.
Indeed. If my RAM had such a slow refresh cycle, I'd have it replaced a decade ago.
> If it's not, I'd suspect we'll hear from those who'll discredit him soon enough. Too many people have entire belief systems invested in the contrary opinion.
Consider the manpower invested into finding the evidence. How many stones did they leave unturned? And still all they have are suspicions and interpretations of cryptic language in Hussein's papers.
>Either way, I'd still like to hear what happened to the missing weapons. If the tooth fairy leaves money, what does the WMD fairy leave?
Invoices in the suppliers' hands?
