Today the Intelligence Summit released transcripts from the Saddam tapes on the intelligencesummit.org website. There are some interesting revelations in the MS PowerPoint presentation they have posted.
The translation is indeed different than the one provided by ABC News. The matter of what exactly is said on those tapes will be struggled over by expert linguists and I won’t try to debate that issue.
There are a few things that that we can immediately conclude from the presentation.