Saddam Tied, People Died, Leftists Lied, Facts Denied

Captain's Quarters, unlike some I could name (CBSNBCABCCNNWaPoNYTREUTERSAPAFP) is keeping up with the 47,000 pages of documents captured in Iraq. Here's a memo from March, 2001, emphasis mine.

In the name of God the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
The Presidency of the Republic
The Intelligence Service
Mr: The Respectful Assistant Director of the Apparatus Operations.
Subject: The New American Policy Toward Iraq

Aside is a notice for the 10th Directorate and attached is a note from the respectful Mr. Director of the Apparatus on 24/3/2001 that your Excellency and the two gentlemen directors of the 4th Directorate and 10th Directorate to study in what is issued on the 10th Directorate memo and which includes:
1. The available signs indicate the intentions of America under the presidency of Bush the Son that aim to damage the political leadership in the country, and among it is their seeking to apply what it called the smart sanctions and it summarize as:
A. Allow the importing of humanitarian goods to Iraq without prior approval and this aim to make the leadership in Iraq responsible for the starvation of the Iraqi people and not the responsibility of the United Nations.
B. The return of the Inspectors.
C. The massing of the World opinion around the special procedures to contain Iraq.
D. Travel prohibition for the Iraqi officials and the freezing of their special accounts.
2. The 10th Directorate suggested the following to encounter what was mentioned
above.
A. Prepare a public relation plan that aims to clarify the rights of Iraq, and bring up what is related to the Palestinian cause, and the call to strike the presence and interests of America.
B. Work to commit some nations like France, China, Russia and Japan to economical agreements that make the implementation of the smart sanctions to have negative effect to the interests of these nations.
C. Strengthen our embassies with new remarkable staff that is can go toward new windows in the international relations.
D. Make a list of the citizens including those who are in the Apparatus that have in their names foreign accounts and do the procedures to protect these accounts from any enemy action.
E. Insist that that Iraq money will stay local.

Saddam played us quite well, no? Capt. Ed has more if you click over. Curtsy: Anchoress.