<< "Except for the fact that the document in question refers to Hussein's nuclear program before the Persian Gulf War in 1991, you might have something there." >>
Hmmmm.... I never said 1991. I only said 2002 & you somehow completely missed that critical date.
Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi
reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United
Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had
abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the
Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr.
Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an
atom bomb, as little as a year away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ei=5065&en=9b92b000e0a064e6&ex=1163134800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
<< "That program that had been thoroughly dismantled long before our invasion, according to the U.N. inspectors and the IAEA." >>
Got a link for that?
Are you calling the New York Times liars? They said Saddam was a year away from a nuke in 2002, not me. Keep in mind the NYT has a bad case of BDS. Why would they make that up?
And what does that have to do with the fact that when the Gulf War ended in 1991, the Cease Fire Agreement demanded that Iraq immediately turn over EVERYTHING, including all documentation that related to any WMD program?
Why did Iraq still have complete plans to build a successful nuke in less than a year in 2002, an egregious violation of the GulF War Cease Fire Agreement from 1991?
Why was Saddam secretly attempting to buy yellowcake in 2001, another egregious violation of the Cease Fire Agreement?
The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said Saddam took some of the billions he skimmed from the Oil-for-Food program & made all manner of illegal purchases of equipment & materials to improve his WMD programs. The ISG also said that there was all manner of illegal WMD program related equipment, documents, & sites, ET AL, that went undeclared in violation of the Cease Fire Agreement.
All of this was successfully hidden from UN Inspectors for more than 12 years.
The ISG concluded that Saddam's bribes of the UN, France, Russia, China, Germany, ET AL, were working successfully toward breaking the sanctions & inspections regimes. They also concluded that once sanctions were dropped & inspectors left Iraq, Saddam planned to immediately resume production of WMD's.
All this NYT article seems to do is make it even more clear what a genuine threat Saddam was.
Oh, there's soooo much more. Don't believe me. Go read it yourself:
cia.gov
And there's plenty more to go with that too. Let me know when you're done reading the above link & I'll gladly provide more.
Apparently I really do have something.
The question is are you going to admit there is something? |
