Overlooked news - THE CIA AGENT who debriefed Saddam - says Bush & WH lied about him in many ways
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THE FULL REPORT:
http://www.alternativenewsnetwork.net/cia-agent-us-government-lied-saddam-hussein/
Excerpts...
SADDAM TOLD HIM - 'You found a traitor who led you to Saddam Hussein. Isn't there one traitor who can tell you where the WMDs are?' He warmed to the subject, saying Americans were a bunch of ignorant hooligans who did not understand Iraq and were intent on its destruction.
'Iraq is not a terrorist nation,' he said. 'We did not have a relationship with (Osama) bin Laden, and did not have weapons of mass destruction... and were not a threat to our neighbors. But the American President [George W Bush] said Iraq wanted to attack his daddy and said we had 'weapons of mass destruction.'
CIA AGENT SAYS --
It was not the only thing that would surprise me. For example, in my years studying Saddam, I never doubted the received wisdom that his stepfather in Tikrit beat him. Many eminent psychiatrists who had analysed him from afar said this was why Saddam was so cruel and why he wanted nuclear weapons.
Yet, in the course of my further interrogations, Saddam turned our assumptions upside down, saying his stepfather was the kindest man he had ever known: 'Ibrahim Hasan - God bless him. If he had a secret, he would entrust me with it. I was more dear to him than his son, Idham.'
The CIA profile of Saddam suggested he was a chronic liar, yet he could be quite candid. Our perception that he ruled with an iron grip was also mistaken. It became clear from our interrogations that in his final years, Saddam seemed clueless about what had been happening inside Iraq. He was inattentive to what his government was doing, had no real plan for the defense of Iraq and could not comprehend the immensity of the approaching storm.
FURTHER:
Saddam had actually believed 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer because Washington would need his secular government to help fight fundamentalism. How woefully wrong he had been.
Saddam inferred things were not going well for the US forces and took pleasure in the fact. 'You are going to fail,' he said. 'You are going to find that it is not so easy to govern Iraq.' History has proved him right. But back then, I was curious why he felt that way.
'Because you do not know the language, the history, and the Arab mind,' he said. 'It's hard to know the Iraqi people without knowing its weather and its history. The difference is between night and day and winter and summer. That's why they say the Iraqis are hard-headed - because of the summer heat.'
MORE FROM THE CIA AGENT --
In his 2010 memoir, GW Bush wrote: 'I decided I would not criticise the hardworking patriots of the CIA for the faulty intelligence on Iraq.' But that is exactly what he did. He blamed the agency for everything that went wrong and called its analysis 'guesswork' while hearing only what he wanted to hear.
I do not wish to imply that Saddam was innocent type of being. He was a ruthless dictator who plunged his region into chaos and bloodshed. But in hindsight, the thought of having an ageing and disengaged Saddam in power seems almost comforting in comparison with the wasted effort of our brave men and women in uniform and the rise of Islamic State, not to mention the £2.5 trillion spent to build a new Iraq.