Pre-war Declassified Imagery Proves Kerry Lies

As Ronald Reagan used to say when the liberals lied about his policies, 'There they go again." John Kerry is lying about the missing explosives. It was well publicized in the 1990s and right before this war that Saddam's standard practice was to move equipment and ammunition out of military storage sites and into or near civilian locations. SEE THE DECLASSIFIED IMAGERY AND TEXT BELOW. (go to http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_human_shields/#08 for the full report.)

Everyone remembers that once we invaded Iraq, soldiers and media proved that Saddam had dispersed thousands of tons of ammunition and military equipment in schools, hospitals, clinics, farm fields, and in many cases, private homes and apartment buildings - literally just about anywhere and everywhere in Iraq. Yet, John Kerry wants Americans to believe that President Bush must have "lost" the munitions, rather than admit that Saddam had a well-established program to hide such assets and thus quite probably moved the stockpiles after the UN inspectors left the country before the war started. Once again, liberals like to blame a US President rather than hold a brutal dictator like Saddam accountable.

Who should we believe - John Kerry? Believe the commander of the US troops who fought for and captured the storage site. He said it was highly unlikely such large amounts of explosives were moved after the war. US troops were all around this particular area. Neither our troops or media spotted UN markings or these stored explosives at the particular site in question.

I would also point out that one of the reasons President Bush clearly stated that Saddam represented a gathering threat to the US and its allies is because Saddam retained such large amounts of military equipment -including these explosives. Anytime Saddam wanted, he could have used the explosives to create car bombs or other terrorist devices, as he did in 1993 when he decided he wanted to kill former President Bush and Kuwaiti leaders. Fortunately, that terrorist plot was foiled. Of course, in John Kerry's world, Saddam's never had anything to do with terrorism...

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Putting Iraqi Civilians and Civilian Facilities at Risk

In another "lower-cost" approach, Saddam has regularly imposed involuntary service as human shields on Iraqi citizens by authorizing the placement of high-value military units and equipment in heavily populated civilian neighborhoods and near civilian facilities,

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such as mosques, markets, schools, and cultural sites. The tactic is designed to conceal these military assets but also to deter—or, failing that, to capitalize on—Coalition attacks on them through the high likelihood of collateral civilian casualties.

• Over the past decade, Baghdad has positioned SAMs and air defense equipment near dozens of mosques and other civilian facilities in the no-fly zones.

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• Iraq's military often uses such civilian installations as residences and schools as alternate command and control facilities during periods of heightened tensions, and Saddam frequently commandeers private apartments or homes in densely populated areas for his personal use during a crisis. Although it is unclear whether civilians are permitted to remain in commandeered facilities, Saddam presumably uses this tactic because he believes that Coalition forces would not target such facilities for attack.


• In 1996, Iraq admitted to UNSCOM officials that it had concealed bacterial growth media purchased for its BW program in the Asma School in Hindiyah in 1991. Growth media from the BW program also was found in a warehouse and store used to distribute pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to both Iraqi civilians and the Iraqi military.

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