SMOKING GUN: SADDAM'S OWN WORDS JUSTIFY IRAQ WAR

An article over at Newsmax.com reveals that ABC apparently fudged their interpretation of what was said on the now infamous tape of Saddam Hussein and others discussing an attack on America. Here's the scoop:

The FBI translator who supplied the 12 hours of Saddam Hussein audiotapes excerpted by ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night now says the network discarded his translations and went with a less threatening version of the Iraqi dictator's comments.

"What you heard on ABC News was their translation," former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Thursday.

"They came up with something different on a key element regarding terrorism in the United States," Tierney insisted.

In the "Nightline" version of the 1996 recording, Saddam predicts that Washington, D.C., would be hit by terrorists. But he adds that Iraq would have nothing to do with the attack.

Here comes the BLOCKBUSTER REVELATION:

Tierney says, however, that what Saddam actually said was much more sinister. "He was discussing his intent to use chemical weapons against the United States and use proxies so it could not be traced back to Iraq," he told Hannity.

This means that Saddam was already aware, prior to 9-11, that he could lash out at the Great Satan, who had humiliated him in 1991, through proxies, and therefore with impunity.

This fact justifies taking the America hating billionaire dictator down, even though there could have been no concrete proof that he would attempt to do us harm through surrogates, just the probability given all the circumstancial evidence we all had.

Thank God for George W. Bush. Had we simply done what we did in Afghanistan, and left Saddam in power, he could have killed millions without us knowing WHO had actually sponsored the attack. The following words attributed to Saddam on the tape indicate to me he had just such a strategy:

In a passage not used by "Nightline," Tierney says Saddam declares: "Terrorism is coming. ... In the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. What if we consider this technique, with smuggling?"

How can ANYONE read these words and not find them chilling. How can anyone now say that we'd be SAFER with Saddam still in power?

ABC is bound to know that had they put Tierney's tranlsation on TV Wednesday night, then they would have effectively de-legitimized every argument the left has had against the Iraq war. Thus, the alternative translation has been offered up to preempt and minimize the damage to the leftist anti-war cause, which the networks have been cheerleaders for all along.

Hopefully others will pick up on this very important story and in the end, the truth will win out.