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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Sully- who wrote (52950)11/4/2006 4:32:48 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (6) of 90947
 
>>The intelligence report conveyed information from the
source attributed to the Iraqi official which said:
* Iraq was not in possession of a nuclear weapon. However,
Iraq was aggressively and covertly developing such a
weapon. Saddam, irate that Iraq did not yet have a nuclear
weapon because money was no object and because Iraq
possessed the scientific know how, had recently called
meeting his Nuclear Weapons Committee.
* The Committee told Saddam that a nuclear weapon would be
ready within 18-24 months of acquiring the fissile
material.<<

Sully -

It is well established that a lot of bad intelligence was gathered at that time. It is also known that Saddam liked to appear to be more powerful than he was. He was a good bluffer. Many of his own government ministers believed that he had WMDs, because he wanted them to believe that. Ahmad Chalabi and others were providing our intelligence community with a whole lot of misinformation, and possibly disinformation.

The fact remains that producing nuclear weapons from fissile material requires a whole lot of equipment that Saddam didn't have. What his committee told him, in a meeting where they no doubt feared the consequences of disappointing him, proves nothing about their actual capabilities. They were lying. Lying to save their own skins.

- Allen
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