BUSH=WAR MONGER

There’s a story in today’s New York Times that isn’t getting much press except on the left. According to the Paper of Left Record, BUSHCO ignored pleas from Saddam Hussein “for a deal” and instead attacked and killed!!

It seems as obscure Lebanese–American businessman was contacted by various Iraqi’s, including high-level members of Iraqi intelligence, offering ever changing deals from guaranteeing American dibs on oil and contracting up to democratic election two years in the future. According to the article, the CIA and other agencies said, “Thanks, but we have our own talks going on” and then we attacked!! Well, in short, all of this has the liberals loosing their minds. To them, it looks like BUSHCO wanted war and nothing was going to stop them, even if Saddam wanted peace.

Bull.

Aside from all of the options leaving Saddam in power (like he would ever have elections), there are several things that stick out in my mind:

1. Why in the world would Saddam go through one obscure, businessman when he had the worlds press in his capitol everyday? It seems to me if Saddam REALLY wanted to deal, he would have called CNN over for a chat.

2. What about these “other channels” we hear about? Hage asked why they were talking to him and they said, "We have talks with people." The CIA blew him off because they had their own channels open in Baghdad. It seems to me this guy wasn’t the great white hope the Times hold him out to be.

This is my take. This guy MAY have been contacted, but I bet it was not by people working in Saddam’s behalf. They may have been loose cannons who saw the writing on the wall. Either way, I doubt this dud was a serious contender in avoiding the war. If he was, I think we would have heard of him earlier.