NYT: Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War

[Foswia]

Story

Could be a report, if so i'm very sorry i couldn't find it anywhere)

Snip....
Mr. Obeidi told Mr. Hage that Iraq would make deals to avoid war, including helping in the Mideast peace process. "He said, if this is about oil, we will talk about U.S. oil concessions," Mr. Hage recalled. "If it is about the peace process, then we can talk. If this is about weapons of mass destruction, let the Americans send over their people. There are no weapons of mass destruction."

Mr. Obeidi said the "Americans could send 2,000 F.B.I. agents to look wherever they wanted," Mr. Hage recalled.

He said that when he told Mr. Obeidi that the United States seemed adamant that Saddam Hussein give up power, Mr. Obeidi bristled, saying that would be capitulation. But later, Mr. Hage recounted, Mr. Obeidi said Iraq could agree to hold elections within the next two years.

[Brucey]

1. If there is any evidence of this, it could be a big story.

[Foswia]

2. Link is there. sorry i had a link to this msg org.

I updated the link sorry about that.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi Foswia!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. The Iraqis were begging us to inspect anywhere we wanted to...

...and everyone outside the U.S. was telling the Bushies that there were no WMDs in Iraq.

But, hey, those five second CNN/MSNBC/FOX sound bites telling everyone that the Iraqis weren't cooperating seemed to carry more weight than 90% of the reporting done by the Guardian, Toronto Star, the BBC, and every other foreign media outlet.

But the PNACers were on a schedule, and had been since 1997.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. It's already being dissed at Faux by "U.S. Officials... Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=202470

[Foswia]

5. Dupe then?

Is this a dupe on my part? If so, sorry.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. No dupe to the one I was talking about & welcome to DU!

The link I put up was about Bushco spinning denial that this had merit (which it does IMHO).

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Of course it is! Did you expect anything less??

[Hieronymus]

8. Brit is

trying ti dis intelligence in general. LOL:puke:

[Hieronymus]

7. KGO did

an hour on it. Bernie Ward wll be all over it at 10 PST.

[sally343434]

10. A planted story?

Read Josh's take on it here:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/002171.html

[Paschall]

11. VERY interesting

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[Zhade]

14. Thanks for the tip - everyone, this is a must-read piece at TPM.

NT!

[Kinkistyle]

15. Karma

The Shrub keeps pissing people off and eventually, its going to bite him in the ass. Especially the intelligence folks. Letting bits and pieces of enlightenment to slip and trickle out to the public attention.

[grasswire]

12. triplicate

http://democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=202158

http://democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=201626

[Zhade]

13. Boy, the CIA is going to be PISSED over this one!

I am stunned - why does the neocabal that is TraitorCo continue to attack the CIA? Doesn't it realize the folly of such a move? The CIA can bury the Bushies under a flood of dirty, nasty revelations. You'd think the administration wouldn't want to challenge those who have keys to the skeleton-filled closets.