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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (427831)	7/16/2003 12:35:10 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What, would that somehow make you happy?

To: American Spirit who wrote (427831)	7/16/2003 1:11:43 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The high-tolerance aluminum tubes are only part of the story. We also have intelligence from multiple sources that Iraq is attempting to acquire magnets and high-speed balancing machines. Both items can be used in a gas centrifuge program to enrich uranium. In 1999 and 2000, Iraqi officials negotiated with firms in Romania, India, Russia and Slovenia for the purchase of a magnet production plant. Iraq wanted the plant to produce magnets weighing 20 to 30 grams. That's the same weight as the magnets used in Iraq's gas centrifuge program before the Gulf War. This incident, linked with the tubes, is another indicator of Iraq's attempt to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program. Intercepted communications from mid-2000 through last summer showed that Iraq front companies sought to buy machines that can be used to balance gas centrifuge rotors. One of these companies also had been involved in a failed effort in 2001 to smuggle aluminum tubes into Iraq." The high level of proof that some require has denied the existence of Communist spies in our State Department in the past and continues to this day despite evidence to the contrary (see Venona Files). That they now transfer this high level of proof to Iraq and SH is no surprise. They thought WWII was a war to save Stalin.;)