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

To: DizzyG who wrote (91000)	3/23/2007 1:08:29 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I have heard that Saddam already had a stock of yellow cake. It makes the hub bub over the forged memo even more curious. It's also clear that it's a long way from yellow cake to a nuclear bomb. I don't think that anyone in our intelligence agencies thought that Saddam had the capability to make a bomb. When one looks at all the information presented by the administration regarding Saddam's nuclear capability, it's clear that the truth was left behind. In its place a tale of great danger was told. No mention of the fact that Saddam already had 500 tons of yellow cake. No mention of the fact that Saddam was years away from refining materials for a bomb, and years more away from producing a bomb. Such words as "recently sought" were crafted to make it seem that Saddam's nuke program was on the move. Cheney's "we believe that, in fact, Saddam has reconstituted nuclear weapons", was an attempt to deceive us into thinking that war was our only option. Many analysts believed that there was a possibility that Saddam had bio-chem WMD's. I've yet to see any report or mention of an intelligence analyst's work or belief that Saddam had an atomic bomb. Clearly the administration did not draw a clear picture of the situation in Iraq. One can only wonder why they did so.