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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: jlallen who wrote (30881)10/20/2004 2:36:51 PM
From: DayTraderKidd  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 173976
 
It was a lie and the missle systems were not wmd. I don't remember them finding 500 tons of enriched uranium either. Lets see the link.



To: jlallen who wrote (30881)10/20/2004 2:42:56 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
DREAM ON. Did you just wake up from a 13 year coma?: As for nuclear weapons, the report found that Iraq's "ability to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program progressively decayed" after the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991.

cnn.com



To: jlallen who wrote (30881)10/20/2004 4:46:16 PM
From: wonk  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 173976
 
Well they found both...1.8 tons of enriched uranium and 500 tons of yellowcake....Saddam was not supposed to have either....

The distortion and disinformation is that “they found” both. The truth is that everyone knew that Iraq had both.

The lie is that Saddam “was not supposed to have either.” He was permitted to have both.

The following is a direct quote from the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate.

…Uranium Acquisition. Iraq retains approximately two-and-a-half tons of 2.5 percent enriched uranium oxide, which the IAEA permits. This low-enriched material could be used as feed material to produce enough HEU for about two nuclear weapons. The use of enriched feed material also would reduce the initial number of centrifuges that Baghdad would need by about half. Iraq could divert this material -- the IAEA inspects it only once a year -- and enrich it to weapons grade before a subsequent inspection discovered it was missing. The IAEA last inspected this material in late January 2002.

Iraq has about 500 metric tons of yellowcake and low enriched uranium at Tuwaitha, which is inspected annually by the IAEA .…


fas.org