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    Ok, I can either post it here or email you when it's ready if you want.
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    Default Posting a link here would be fine ....

    that way everyone can partake. I'm a patient person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
    A paranoid psychopathic sadistic one. Anyone trying to replace Saddam with Islamist would've been tortured and killed. To suggest otherwise is to suggest Saddam "wasn't that bad" that he actually believed in a cause and wasn't just out for himself.

    Steve Blair is correct. That's not what I was suggesting (but I do see how it could be read that way). To be explicit, Saddam was a rank hypocrite who used Islam as a tool to further his own ambitions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmm99 View Post
    more than one here will be interested in what Sam Faddis had to say about all of this. Thanks in advance.

    Here is that Faddis interview for those interested.

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    Default Hey Mark ....

    Way to come through. Good catch.

    CF's comments parallel what he stated in his portion of the book Operation Hotel California. For those not familiar with the book, it is really two books in one. The one by Mike Tucker, which is editorializing, etc. The other by Sam Faddis which is basically straight-forward. The portions are in different typefaces. So, you read the book and then re-read Faddis' portion at least once more.

    A point not covered in the interview - not a criticism, Mark, since your focus and locus were on-topic (Saddam-AQ ties or not) - was Saddam's possession of WMD. From the book, Faddis' informants (who addressed that topic) were pretty much uniform in their beliefs that Saddam had or was working on WMD; but none had any direct evidence of that. Since you can't prove a negative (Faddis makes that point - still a lawyer, and a prosecutor in a prior life), the intelligence on that topic was ambiguous - as you note in your Analysis.

    Good job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jmm99 View Post
    Way to come through. Good catch.

    CF's comments parallel what he stated in his portion of the book Operation Hotel California. For those not familiar with the book, it is really two books in one. The one by Mike Tucker, which is editorializing, etc. The other by Sam Faddis which is basically straight-forward. The portions are in different typefaces. So, you read the book and then re-read Faddis' portion at least once more.

    A point not covered in the interview - not a criticism, Mark, since your focus and locus were on-topic (Saddam-AQ ties or not) - was Saddam's possession of WMD. From the book, Faddis' informants (who addressed that topic) were pretty much uniform in their beliefs that Saddam had or was working on WMD; but none had any direct evidence of that. Since you can't prove a negative (Faddis makes that point - still a lawyer, and a prosecutor in a prior life), the intelligence on that topic was ambiguous - as you note in your Analysis.

    Good job.
    Thanks JM.
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