Friday, November 18, 2005

Proof That I Have Been Blogging Too Much   The night before last I dreamed that I was moving into an apartment in a new town -- however, once I got there, my new accomoadations turned out to be a room in a college dorm.  I was kind of disappointed, but that's the way theses things go.  I had just put away my belongings and made my bed when my new roommate arrived -- it was Vice President Dick Cheney.  He snarled that my girly bed spread wasn't acceptable, and would have to be replaced.  Then about five of his cronies showed up, and they started to converse animatedly about some new war they were planning.  Dick glared at me, then ordered me to get out .  Part of me (the part that was brought up to respect authority figures) wanted to leave, but the rest of me figured that it was my room as much as it was his --  so I told him that I was staying, and I pretended that I was reading a book.  He swore at me, then turned on the radio to cover up the sound of their plotting.  But the song that was playing, Toto's "Roseanna," must have been a neocon favorite, since all the minions started to sing along lustily.   So, I decided to leave. Last night I dreamed that my town had been invaded, just like in Red Dawn -- except that the invaders were the Canadians.  I was part of the underground, and sorta volunteered for a suicide mission (in that I didn't say no when asked to do it).  My assignment was to deliberately get caught trying to sneak into the enemy's headquarters (which were at the public library), so that they would interrogate me -- then I was to try to get them to believe that a  museum exhibit we had prepared with fake fossil evidence disproved the theory of evolution.  But my interrogators were really nice, offering me sandwiches and fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.  I felt so bad about deceiving them that I told them the truth about the exhibitm and thus doomed our country.  Anyway, I'm sure that a psychiatrist would agree that these dreams mean that I have got to lay off WorldNetDaily and FrontPageMag for a while.  But I take some comfort in the fact that I never saw my dorm mate naked.  5:55:39 AM     comment [] trackback []   He Probably Was Also One of Doug Feith's Sources   Michelle Malkin's blog, Powerline, Little Green Footballs, etc., have all recommended FrontPage Magazine's interview with a former UNSCOM inspector.  Lorie Byrd (one of Michelle Malkin's guest bloggers) says: Scott Johnson links to a very interesting interview at Frontpage with a former UNSCOM inspector, Bill Tierney. This will serve as the second installment of my series of posts linking to information that can serve as ammunition for the President to use in his effort to remind the public of the situation that existed prior to the invasion of Iraq.  The Powerlineblog guy who isn't Hindrocket or Bigtrunk says: Frontpage has posted a fascinating interview of former UNSCOM inspector Bill Tierney: "Where the WMDs went."   [...] It's a long interview, and all of it is of interest. Well, it's mostly stories about how Bill and his group would almost find a bunch of nuclear weapons, but then the Iraqis would distract them somehow, and so the nukes were never actually discovered.  But the fact that they COULD have been there proves that they were..  Bill says: On nukes, some analysts wait until there is unambiguous proof before stating a country has nuclear weapons.  This may work in a courtroom, but intelligence is a different subject altogether. I believe it is more prudent to determine what is axiomatic given a nation’s capabilities and intentions.  Mr. Tierney believes since the Iraqis possessed those WMD-related program activities, and since they wanted to buy enriched uranium (even though the they couldn't get anybody to sell them any), this proves that Iraq actually had nuclear weapons, even if we could never find them.  (And if you believe otherwise, you are some kind of impractical dreamer who undoubtedly belives that actual evidence is only for court, when one person's life might be on the line, instead of when deciding the fate of nations when making a cause for war.) There was no question that Iraq had triggering mechanisms for a nuke, the question was whether they had enriched enough uranium.  Given Iraq’s intensive efforts to build a nuke prior to the Gulf War, their efforts to hide uranium enrichment material from inspectors, the fact that Israel had a nuke but no Arab state could claim the same, my first-hand knowledge of the limits of UNSCOM and IAEA capabilities, and Iraqi efforts to buy yellowcake uranium abroad (Joe Wilson tea parties notwithstanding), I believe the TWELVE years between 1991 and 2003 was more than enough time to produce sufficient weapons grade uranium to produce a nuclear weapon.  Maybe I have more respect for the Iraqis’ capabilities than some. I'm guessing that Bill has more respect for the Iraqis' eerie time-traveling, instantaneous weapons-transporting, and matter-destroying capablities than most.   Anyway, FrontPage notes that Mr. Tierney is "a former military intelligence officer" [well, he was actually a chief warrant officer, but that's close enough] who served as a weapons inspector for UNSCOM in Iraq from 1996-98.  But there are a few things that their bio leaves out.  Such as:   Per The Army Times, in 1998 Tierney was removed from his assignment as a translater/ debriefer after he prayed with an Iraqi defector (which was a violation of Army procedures).  Instead of accepting his reassignment, Tierney claimed that he "had the right to pray with a fellow Christian, and insisted that he was a victim of discrimination because of his religious action."  So, he resigned from the military -- and then asked to be reinstated.  But his resignation was accepted anyway, so he sued the goverment for religious discrimination, telling everybody from Pat Robertson to WorldNetDaily his tale of martyrdom.   In 2002, Tierney got a gig as a civilian interrogator at Guantanamo Bay.  He was dismissed after two months when "DIA officials once again felt he wasn't following established procedures." In 2004 he worked for eight months "as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad" (which apparently means that as a contract employee of the U.S. military, he helped interrogate detainees in Baghad.)  In Feb. 2005 he was one of the speakers at at INTELCON; he lectured about his experiences in Iraq, and about the use of torture as in interrogation technique on "wogs."   In March 2005, he tooks his daughter and protested the removal of Terri's Schiavo's feeding tube ( Billmon has the info about those last two items). Oh, and in February 2003. he appeared on COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY (Noory is Art Bell's replacement).  Here's part of the Coast to Coast recap of the show (emphasis added). Bill Tierney, a former weapons inspector who worked with UNSCOM in Iraq in the late 1990s, was the guest for the first two hours of Friday night's show. He believes that Iraq has nuclear capability and the intention to use such weapons. Further, Tierney claims that he has pinpointed a hidden location in Iraq (map here) where there is a uranium enriching processing facility. "You can't put an underground chamber on the back of a truck," Tierney said, indicating that if an inspection were made in this suggested area, the Iraqis would not be able to haul off the evidence. Tierney's methods of ascertaining this location were rather unconventional. "I would ask God and just get a sense if something was valid or not, and then know if I needed to pursue it," he said. His assessments through prayer were then confirmed to him by a friend's clairvoyant dream, where he was able to find the location on a map. "Everything she said lined up. This place meets the criteria," Tierney said of a power generator plant near the Tigris River that he believes is actually a cover for a secret uranium facility. Tierney still believes that he found (via prayer and his friend's clairvoyance), a uranium processing plant at Ahmad Jamil;  he told FrontPage that a guy he debriefed told him that he got sick while working in an underground facility near Tarmiya: "The security officer didn’t mention what they were doing, but I would say uranium enrichment is the most logical pick."  So, even though we found no evidence of uranium processing (not even the radiation that he said we'd find), the fact that the Iraqis would have wanted to make atomic weapons (not to mention the fact that Bill found this facility via prayers and dreams and stuff) prove that Tierney's claim is true. So, like Lorie Byrd, I too hope that the President uses Bill Tierney's claims as ammunition when he makes his case to the U.S. public.  However, I really hope that he doesn't make Bill his new faith-based National Intelligence chief.  5:20:43 AM     comment [] trackback []   A Christmas Miracle for Brad   Yesterday we were visited by Brad's hero, Pastor Grant Swank.  Besides wishing us all a Merry Christmas in the comments to yesterday's item, the pastor provided a few remarks on our  Oct. 11 "One Wish" post (per Pastor Swank, both he and his son Jay really do exist).  In a very special update, Jay also stopped by. To celebrate this special event, here is a sampling of some of the pastor's most recent columns:  PRESIDENT BUSH: FREEDOM'S CHAMPION IN CHINESE US President George W. Bush breathes freedom. The Democrats don’t believe that. Some turncoat Republicans don’t believe that, one of them being my own Maine’s Olympia Snowe. However, those who can hear freedom’s lyrics with a genuine heart know that Mr. Bush does indeed live for one primary mission — sharing freedoms wherever possible.  MUSLIM MURDERERS: KILL BRITISH QUEEN . . .Obviously with the Queen of England under attack, every democracy leader of every freedom-based country is under attack. It is merely a matter of time until there is an assassination and then a number of them dominoing the hellish craze of Islamic slaughterers who thrill at blood in the streets. [...] All the while the Queen sits upon her throne — in danger. PLASTER HER FACE GLOBAL: SUICIDE WANNABE Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, should be postered all over the planet. Anyway, we wish to thank Pastor Swank and Jay for dropping by, and hope that the Pastor will make Brad's day and pay a visit to Sadly, No! 2:20:29 AM     comment [] trackback []

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