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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: jlallen who wrote (30881)	10/20/2004 4:46:16 PM
From: wonk	Read Replies (2) of 173976

Well they found both...1.8 tons of enriched uranium and 500 tons of yellowcake....Saddam was not supposed to have either.... The distortion and disinformation is that “they found” both. The truth is that everyone knew that Iraq had both. The lie is that Saddam “was not supposed to have either.” He was permitted to have both. The following is a direct quote from the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate. …Uranium Acquisition. Iraq retains approximately two-and-a-half tons of 2.5 percent enriched uranium oxide, which the IAEA permits. This low-enriched material could be used as feed material to produce enough HEU for about two nuclear weapons. The use of enriched feed material also would reduce the initial number of centrifuges that Baghdad would need by about half. Iraq could divert this material -- the IAEA inspects it only once a year -- and enrich it to weapons grade before a subsequent inspection discovered it was missing. The IAEA last inspected this material in late January 2002. Iraq has about 500 metric tons of yellowcake and low enriched uranium at Tuwaitha, which is inspected annually by the IAEA .… fas.org

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