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To: Ilaine who wrote (141723)	7/28/2004 12:15:46 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<if you think it's perfectly ok for Saddam Hussein to attempt to purchase yellowcake, you have taken leave of your senses> Saddam already had plenty of yellowcake and it seems the US via the UN did not try to take it away from him after the first Gulf War. Are you implying that Saddam needed MORE yellowcake? What significance would it have to buy more if he already had a large supply and if the US did not seem troubled by leaving the yellowcake in Iraq for the past ten years or more?

To: Ilaine who wrote (141723)	7/28/2004 10:48:33 AM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 281500

Let's know when you can answer GST's post. siliconinvestor.com Also, I recall after the invasion the local Iraqis broke into a yellow cake storage area and were looting it just to get the containers and there was concern about their radiation exposure. But clearly there was great danger to us from a nuke attack because Saddam was ready in 45 minutes to combine the nuke plans found buried in the scientist's backyard, recently stolen from the local library, with the yellow cake and the drone fleet and fly it into DC.

To: Ilaine who wrote (141723)	7/28/2004 5:19:33 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't think it's ok, but I don't think it's actually a basis for war, either. It's not even clear how hard he tried, and I'd hope uranium, in the 1000's of tons anyway, is fairly closely watched as it goes around the world. Then there's the contrary example of Pakistan's long march to nukes, which everybody knew about, but that didn't prevent various presidents of both parties offering up their yearly certification that Pakistan wasn't doing any such thing. People who like war differ on things like this, that's life.