Saddam pulled a smart move and flew or trucked this stuff to Syria.We found no labs, not even the mobile ones that were shown to the American people.
The only weapons they found were old weapons, some of which the US government gave Iraq.
General Sada spilled the truth
Eric Mayforth
5.0 out of 5 stars An Insider's Account of a Squalid Regime
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2013Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
Saddam Hussein was one of the most brutal tyrants of recent times. He slaughtered untold numbers of his own people, caused everyone else in Iraq to live in constant fear, invaded Kuwait in 1990, ignored numerous UN Security Council resolutions, and was the only head of state to praise the 9/11/01 attacks on the United States. Iraqi Air Force general Georges Sada documents Saddam's rise, rule, and ultimate fall in his 2006 memoir "Saddam's Secrets."
Sada, an Assyrian Christian, recalls how he decided to become a pilot and tells the story of his career in the Iraqi Air Force. The author describes Saddam's rise to power, and eventually Sada became a key military advisor--Sada developed a reputation for unimpeachable integrity and was one of the few who could tell Saddam the whole truth without paying the ultimate price, as he did when he advised Saddam that it would be best to withdraw from Kuwait before the Gulf War of 1991.
Iraq is a majority Shia country, but Saddam's Baath Party was Sunni and severely repressed the Shia. Sada talks of how Saddam's rule distorted life in Iraq and describes the extent of how much fear Iraqis lived with under the Baath regime.
The author chronicles the time leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces. Sada explains how Saddam hid his weapons of mass destruction under the noses of United Nations inspectors, informs the reader how and to which country Saddam shipped his WMD in late 2002 and early 2003 before the expected invasion, and asserts that he personally knew someone who witnessed the WMD being smuggled out of Iraq.
The Iraqi Survey Group later found that Saddam expected to resume production of WMD as soon as sanctions were lifted--Sada offers his opinion on whether the Coalition did the right thing in deposing Saddam in 2003 and on what danger Saddam would have posed to the world had he not been overthrown.
Sada closes by describing the beginnings of freedom in Iraq following Saddam's departure and makes suggestions as to what should happen next in Iraq. "Saddam's Secrets" is a worthwhile inside recollection of an evil regime that no longer blights the earth.
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