Safire: France Building Saddam's Missiles

[pRIMrose]

Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
News Max.com
March 13, 2003

Saddam Hussein went to France, by way of China and Syria, and got the parts for his long-range ballistic missiles.

No, not the ridiculous "Al Samoud" missiles, whose name sounds like a bad Americanization of a Muslim one ("Do you know Al? Al Samoud?").

We're talking about the missiles to which Saddam himself alluded when he said that destruction of the Al Samoud 2s was not of consequence. He said that Iraq had other ways to protect itself.

Indeed it does.

William Safire, writing in today's NY Times, tells us that Qilu Chemicals, a leading manufacturer of a clear liquid rubber named hydroxy terminated polybutadiene, known in the advanced-rocket industry as HTPB, sold the substance to a French middleman, CIS Paris, which Safire describes as "a Parisian broker that is active in dealings of many kinds with Baghdad."

How can this be? http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif (http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtm l?a=2003/3/13/112516)

I'm so shocked. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sarcasm.gif

[Floridaguy]

Whoever is doing the terrorist war planning in the administration had better have Syria at the very TOP of the list of serious problem nations, at least on a par with NK and Iran, even if they weren't specifically mentioned in the Axis of Evil. Lord knows what we will find when we investigate there. Complicity not only with Saddam, but with Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinians, etc., etc., etc. One of the very oldest enemies of Jews & Christians in the history of the world, still has hate for the West, and Israel.

http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag19.gif