Well, the New York Times, or as some like to call it, the Treason Times, has an interesting story today. Apparently Iraq, through back channels, sent the United States a message before the war began. "As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal.
Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections.
Well this puts everything in sharp relief. The story does hinge a bit on the word of Imad Hage, a Maronite Christian from Lebanon who relayed the messages from Saddam. If he proves unreliable than the story falls apart.
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