Posted on 08/09/2004 8:26:22 AM PDT by areafiftyone
I "clicked".....cool pictures.....I'm reading Michener's ALASKA right now.
correct, its at Oak Ridge.
The stuff from Libya is at Oak Ridge too. They were supposedly trying to match the signature of the material from the two locations - basically to link the Libya program with Iraq.
But at this point, our side has allowed the Dems to seize the "no WMD" premise so hard and fast in the minds of most americans - that I don't even think a revelation like that will mean much. Its too hard to understand, and the sheeple are idiots.
So let me get this straight...
We knew Hussein had this site with enough yellowcake to produce 142 weapons, but instead of shipping the stuff out of the country we said "Fine, we're leaving it there, but we're coming back once a year to make sure you don't touch it!"
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying it sounds like a really stupid decision. Hussein could have waited until he had the means to build a bomb and then raided the place and built a few weapons very quickly.
Rats! Foiled again!
RF, didn't you have some interesting info that Newsmax intends to publish later about Libya, Iraq and a hollowed-out mountainside?
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In my basement. Now I just need some berylium and we can start the new world order off in ernest LOL.
Better make it a few dozen. :-)
142 nuclear weapons... feh... hardly what one could consider mass destruction. Move along.
Awwww...geez, another opportunity to use my favorite quote:
"That would be the same IAEA that did such a bang-up job keeping tabs on North Korea's nuclear program for the last ten years, right up until 2002 when Pyongyang announced - 'Surprise, we have eight nuclear bombs.'" Carl Limbacher - Newsmax
And I am curious: the amount of conventional weapons stockpiled post Desert Storm, in KT, is the equivalent of how many Hiroshima units?
According to the story it was subject to a once-a-year inspection. What if they decided to mess with it between those inspections? Given our apparent lack of humint in Iraq, would we have ever known?
*BUMP*!
One of the CIA analysts who evaluated the Niger-yellowcake story commented that Saddam didn't need Niger's ore, he had 500+ tons already. At least that analyst understood that once-a-year inspections were not keeping the stockpile secure.
So it seems to me that, either way, this is a story.
He's a little optimistic on the conversion and recovery rates of pure machined, ready-to-blow-up U235 from raw U238 there.
But, you can make a bunch of weapons from the U238 that Saddamn wasn't collecting and hadn't stored illegally can't you?
Not sure what info RF has, but I still have this on file...
Libya Expected To Announce in September Report That Iraqi WMD DID Exist And Were Developed THERE
And Iraq was being allowed to develop laser isotope separation techniques .
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