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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (164446)	6/19/2005 5:22:21 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

1. Yep the WMDs that Bush stated we knew were there never existed. 2. The inspectors stated that 94-95% of the weapons they were looking for in Iraq had been destroyed a decade ago. Obviously that was 100% but they couldn't be certain of where the remainder went in the last decade because Bush wouldn't let them finish it up. 3. Real WMDS, nukes, which is what Bush stated were the IMMINENT threat to the US of A never existed except in his lies. PAY ATTENTION! I'm sorry that confuses you, Bush meant it to.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (164446)	6/19/2005 5:33:37 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Remember Powell lying to the UN? Didn't think so. Why did the Bush administration have to lie about anything if the case for WMDs was so strong? Why - why- why? Explain that. ======="... Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb. He is so determined that he has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different countries, even after inspections resumed. These tubes are controlled by the Nuclear Suppliers Group precisely because they can be used as centrifuges for enriching uranium. By now, just about everyone has heard of these tubes, and we all know that there are differences of opinion. There is controversy about what these tubes are for. Most U.S. experts think they are intended to serve as rotors in centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Other experts, and the Iraqis themselves, argue that they are really to produce the rocket bodies for a conventional weapon, a multiple rocket launcher. Let me tell you what is not controversial about these tubes. First, all the experts who have analyzed the tubes in our possession agree that they can be adapted for centrifuge use. Second, Iraq had no business buying them for any purpose. They are banned for Iraq...." February, 2003 ===== "...However, a set of technical experts from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge, Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories reviewed the CIA analysis and disagreed with this interpretation because the tube dimensions were far from ideal for this purpose. In fact, the dimensions and the aluminum alloy were identical to those of tubes acquired for rockets by Iraq in the 1980s. Furthermore, the Iraqis had developed and tested centrifuges before the first Gulf War that were much more capable than those that could have been built with the imported tubes. The DOE experts also pointed out that if these tubes were actually intended for centrifuges, there should be evidence of attempts by the Iraqis to acquire hundreds of thousands of other very specific components, but no such evidence existed. This critique of the CIA interpretation was seconded by the State Department’s intelligence branch and, independently, by an international group of centrifuge experts advising the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).66... ucsusa.org