As Saddam’s documents (with a Pajamas-clad assist?) begin to be explored, Investors Business Daily notes that, “A look at just a few pages already leads to some blockbuster revelations”:
In the early stages of the war that began three years ago, the U.S. captured thousands of documents from Saddam and his spy agency, the Mukhabarat. It’s been widely thought the documents could shed light on why Saddam behaved as he did and how much of a threat his evil regime represented.
Yet, until this week, the documents lay molding in boxes in a government warehouse. Now the first batch is out, and though few in number, they’re loaded with information.
Among the enduring myths of those who oppose the war is that Saddam, though murderous when it came to his own people, had no weapons of mass destruction and no terrorist designs outside his own country. Both claims now lie in tatters.
As we’ve reported several times, a number of former top military officials in Saddam’s regime have come forward to admit that, yes, Saddam had WMD, hid them and shipped them out of the country so they couldn’t be detected. And he had plans to make more.
Now come more revelations that leave little doubt about Saddam’s terrorist intentions.
Meanwhile, Michael Barone asks:
The issue is historical now, but still worth exploring. Why, for two distinct groups of Americans, has it become a matter of conviction held with religious intensity that there cannot have been any relationship between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq?
In the age of postmodernism, where there’s no such as thing as the truth–merely “my truth“, where many believe that both Oliver Stone’s JFK and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 are factual reportage, it may be that even Saddam’s document dump will do little to change some minds. But at least this information is slowly coming to light.
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