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To: American Spirit who wrote (52832)	8/6/2004 8:54:46 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Ooops!!! More bad news for Bush haters..... Iraq Survey Chief Duelfer: Saddam Was Developing Nukes Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004 11:37 a.m. EDT newsmax.com Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons development program at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003, chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer has told Congress. In comments that received virtually no press coverage in the United States, Duelfer testified that Iraq was "preserving and expanding its knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons." One Iraqi laboratory "was intentionally focused on research applicable for nuclear weapons development," the top weapons inspector said. Duelfer's stunning assessment, delivered in March of this year, was first reported last week by renowned historian William Shawcross, in a column for Britain's Guardian newspaper. The former U.N. weapons inspector, who replaced David Kay as head of the CIA's Iraq Survey Group last year, said that Saddam was financing his nuclear program by misappropriating funds from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program. According to Duelfer, Saddam was able to use Oil-for-Food to boost his military procurement budget to $500 million annually &$0150; a 100-fold increase from 1996 to 2003. Most of the recent nuclear research took place at Iraq's notorious al Tuwaitha weapons facility, where Saddam had stockpiled over 500 tons of yellow cake uranium ore since before the first Gulf War. Iraq was also in talks with North Korea on the possibility of importing a 1,300 km missile system, the ISG chief revealed. Foreign missile experts were working in Iraq in defiance of U.N. sanctions, and had helped Iraq redesign the al-Samoud missile. Saddam's 500-plus-ton uranium stockpile was being monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the same agency that had responsibility for monitoring North Korea's nuclear program throughout the 1990s. In October 2002 Pyongyang stunned IAEA inspectors with the announcement that it was ready to produce nuclear weapons. In June of this year, the U.S. Energy Department removed 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium from al Tuwaitha. Ivan Oelrich, a physicist at the Federation of American Scientists, told the Associated Press at the time that the low-enriched uranium stockpile could have produced enough highly enriched uranium to make a single nuclear bomb. In March 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was evidence that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, but the claim was widely dismissed by congressional investigators as well as U.S. reporters.

To: American Spirit who wrote (52832)	8/6/2004 10:43:19 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

LIES AND THE LYING PEOPLE WHO TELL THEM! ____________ "SWIFT BOAT VETS" (A Republican dynamite group formed in May 2004 to TRASH John Kerry) mozark.com This is an example of lies and distortions that make one’s blood boil. Are these people possessed? Anyone who would spit out gall and bile from their mouths to harm an American Hero must be driven by some supernatural power. When I started working to elect John F. Kennedy many years ago, I believed that our American Political system was the best in the world. I still do, with these exceptions: The truth is often lost in rhetoric, one line phrases, and mistruth and that money has taken over and the one with the most money and influence, often wins. It is time for the next generation of Democrats to take over. I hope that they are ready, and have the moral fortitude to stand up and say no to lies and deception. There is only one logical decision to make in November, John Kerry for truth and leadership in America. Swiftvets.com was formed 14-Apr-04 by heavy investors in the Bush Campaign. Here is the straight dope on these guy’s! URL REGISTRATION Swift Boat Veterans for Truth P.O. Box 26184 Alexandria, Virginia 22313 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com Domain Name: SWIFTVETS.COM Created on: 14-Apr-04 Expires on: 14-Apr-05 Last Updated on: 22-Jul-04 Administrative Contact: Stein, Josh admin@hytekhosting.com HyTek Hosting P.O. Box 1131 Fairfield, Connecticut 06825 United States 2032572880 Fax -- Technical Contact: Stein, Josh admin@hytekhosting.com HyTek Hosting P.O. Box 1131 Fairfield, Connecticut 06825 The Vietnam investor behind the "Swift Boat Vets" attack The group attacking Kerry for his antiwar record is backed by a wealthy veteran who's profiting from his business ties to the Communist regime...>> more at: mozark.com