More From Saddam's Archives

Powerline has a link to a translation of one of Saddam's documents. Except (read the whole thing):

This document refers to a heroic, around the clock effort to destroy documents relating to Iraq's WMD programs that I have also seen mentioned in the audiotapes of meetings in Saddam's office. While there is some ambiguity in the last paragraphs, the document does seem to imply that Iraq's WMD progams were ongoing as of late 1998. Some of the ambiguity might perhaps be resolved if others could check the translation.

FreeRepublic has the translation and comment:

In pages 63 and 64 of document Document CMPC-2003-002284 , there is secret and confidential memo dated September 16 1998 concerning a meeting of the National Monitoring Department to discuss how to destroy some “non necessary documents” and keep the necessary one in a safe place according to the memo but the most important part of the memo is a pareagraph on how to handle “The Researches That Cannot Be Declared and that is related with the previous Prohibited Programs of WMD and how to make sure that information about these researches will not leak to the outside because it will be too dangerous if this happened”. Yet another document that proves without any doubt that Saddam Regime never stopped working in his WMD programs and Research and they were just waiting for the opportune moment to produce these WMD again on a large scale. Also remember that in September 1998 the UN inspectors were still in Iraq and they were kicked later on that year after some US air and missile strikes. So most definitely these Secret Research Programs related to WMD were still in existence and may have reached a more advanced stage from late 1998 to late 2002 where during this period of time there were no UN inspectors in Iraq. This document is another proof that we could have never trusted Saddam and that we had all the right to remove his brutal and terrorist regime after 9/11/2001.

The Internet and Blogosphere is doing the job that the government and the press has failed to do, and that is to comb through Saddam's documents and reveal what really happend in Iraq. From the NY Times:

"I'm trying to pick up documents that shed light on the political debate," said Joseph G. Shahda, 34, a Lebanese-born engineer who lives in a Boston suburb and is spending hours every evening on translations for the conservative Free Republic site. "I think we prematurely concluded there was no W.M.D. and no ties to Al Qaeda."

Mr. Shahda said he was proud he could help make the documents public. "I live in this great country, and it's a time of war," he said. "This is the least I can do."