WMD Report from the Horse's Mouth

Meet Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004. He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq.

I'd never heard of Bill Tierney before today, either, until I read an interview with him over at FrontPageMag.

Talk about a breath of fresh air. After listening to and reading the droning, hypocritical, lying attacks of the Democrats all week, I was more than ready to hear from Mr. Tierney, who was actually in Iraq. Who actually took part in the inspections that were supposed to produce facts (something the loony lefties avoid like the plague) about Iraq's WMDs. Who is actually interested in conveying the truth of what happened, rather than frothing at the mouth with self-righteous (not to mention self-aggrandizing) political rhetoric.

It was probably on my second inspection that I realized the Iraqis had no intention of ever cooperating.

Shocker.

For instance, the Iraqis would ask in very reasonable tones that questionable documents be set aside until the end of the day, when a discussion would determine what was truly of interest to UNSCOM. The chief inspector, not wanting to appear like a knuckle-dragging ogre, would agree. Instead of setting the documents on a table in a stack, the Iraqis would set them side to side, filling the entire table top, and would place the most explosive documents on the edge of the table. At some point they would flood the room with people, and in the confusion abscond with the revealing documents.

No!

One of our vehicles took an elevated position where they could look inside the installation and see the Iraqis loading specialized containers on to trucks that matched the source description for the biological weapons containers. The Iraqis claimed that we had inspected the facilities a year earlier, so we didn’t need to inspect it again.

Get out!

Operation Desert Fox was a perfect example of the uselessness of strike operations. Iraqis have told me that the WMD destruction and movement started just after Operation Desert Fox, since after all, who would be so stupid as to start a bombing campaign and just stop.

It was only after Saddam realized that President Clinton lacked the nerve for anything more than a temper-tantrum demonstration that he knew the doors were wide open for him to continue his weapons program. We didn’t break his will, we didn’t destroy his weapons making capability (The Iraqis simply moved most of the precision machinery out prior to the strikes, then rebuilt the buildings), but we did kill some Iraqi bystanders, just so President Clinton could say “something must be done, so I did something.”

I knew there was a reason why I love Bill Clinton. Wait. I don't love Bill Clinton. I love Dick Cheney.

What have you got to say to that, Senator Reid? How about you, Senator Kennedy? Senator Kerry -- cat got your tongue? Maybe Senator Clinton, Senator Edwards, Senator Rockefeller...aaaww hell...I give up.

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