Saddam Has Nukes, Ex-Weapons Inspector Says

Newsmax.com ^ | Friday Dec. 6, 2002 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Sad.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I believe in organization but the other day it took me 4-5 CLOSED moderator thingies to find the article then that one was locked as well.It was a good thread and I had not the time sheeeesh! Enough! It be gettin ridic.

[Cobra64]

With something as big as this, if I were the moderator, I'd let it remain. This is a TERRIFIC statement; it counters the Ritter Critter's remarks..

[Cobra64]

Ritter was cnbc last night really ripping the White House. Talk about shrill.... if Clinton were still in the White House and Ritter made those statements about the White House, Ritter would have been Foster-ized in a heartbeat.

[Cobra64]

I wonder if he's proud of the rack he's reserved for himself in a certain eternal hot spot. And he has the audacity, the unmitigated gall to show his face in public on our streets--much more so pontificate englessly in the media. Dilldo--go stuffit in a garbage disposal! . . . starting with the traitorous vacuum perched hideously atop your torso. God you are the only one who can preserve what we have left from him and his armies like him. Please keep his worse half from fulfilling her Senate term and especially from tarnishing the White House AGAIN! Amen.

To whom are your referring? Ritter or Tierney? That's the problem with people using too many pronnouns, and are not name-specific.

[Cobra64]

I live very close to West Point, and the school has an original in their museum (no it does not rave fissionable material inside). It really is an ugly looking bomb. Maybe steveegg (since he's an expert) or someone, can find a photo, and post it here.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks DB.

[DoughtyOne]

I would agree. When Ritter was involved in inspections he seemed to be a good guy. When he left Iraq, he was swearing that the US was doing the wrong thing and that Saddam had to be monitored. Later on is when he went through his converesion in reverse. Strange...

[Travis McGee]

Without a doubt Saddam would nuke Bagdad to blame it on us.

He has a Nebuchdenezer complex, and is very concerned about earning a permanent place in history.

That's why he has mega murals and 40' statues of himself in every village in Bagdad.

[Travis McGee]

I agree, but I think a smallpox or anthrax mega release are more likely.

[Travis McGee]

I agree. Even a high school shop class could assemble a working gun-barrel bomb in a chunk of an old artillery tube with two just sub critical chunks of weapons grade uranium.

[Lael]

I live very close to West Point, and the school has an original in their museum (no it does not rave fissionable material inside). It really is an ugly looking bomb. Maybe steveegg (since he's an expert) or someone, can find a photo, and post it here.

Which bomb would it be??

Seriously, though, Nuclear Weapons are 60 year old technology. You know, back when Slide Rules were state of the art computing technology.

To assume that Saddam doesn't have them is foolish. The only part of either device that is still "classified" is the Initiator for the Implosion or Nagasaki type weapon.

[Travis McGee]

I guess it's possible. Or he could have just bought some weapons grade from some Russkies for cash. Putting the device together is trivial.

[ThePythonicCow]

To whom are your referring?

I asked the same question. Note the last part " Please keep his worse half from fulfilling her Senate term". Clearly he was referring to Bill Clinton. In that light, I agree with his sentiments.

[Optimist]

When Ritter ... left Iraq, he was swearing that the US was doing the wrong thing and that Saddam had to be monitored. Later on is when he went through his converesion in reverse. Strange...

Ritter was correct to say that Saddam needed to be monitored, but under the circumstances when he left, it was just another UN boondoggle since Saddam was refusing access to the spots most in need of inspection. I therefore conclude that Ritter has been full of S#1+ all along since it appears that what he wanted was "the spotlight". Obviously UN inspections as he was demanding were useless and of value only for propaganda purposes ... by Saddam (just like now, hmmm?).

[Quix]

Sorry, thought I made it clear with DILLDO.

Guess I could have said Billdo.

or

Dilldo and Shrillery

or

Billdo and Shrillery

Saddddammmmmn is plenty evil. But he doesn't REALLY pretend with a very straight face, I hope, to BE very nice.

Dilldo pretends to be a wise saint who's also one of the guys down at the bar. What a hideous farce. I think he's worse than Sadddammmmmmn

[cajungirl]

Ritter has the cornered scared look of a man being pressured. Blackmail? Threats? I think some kind of force was applied to him and he converted and to save his mind, he has convinced himself that he was correct to have done so. He is a piece of work that man.

[Mitchell]

What is the likelihood of a nation doing its first nuclear test in combat? Of it working as expected by the designers?

That's what the U.S. did with the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ("gun" design, using U-235). The scientists had such confidence it would work, plus the U-235 was so expensive and time-consuming to produce, that they did not test the design before using the bomb. [It's presumably even easier now, since the Iraqis wouldn't be working from scratch.]

On the other hand, the much more complicated plutonium-based implosion-type design was tested before it was dropped on Nagasaki.

All the talk about a hypothetical Iraqi atomic bomb seems to be of the U-235 gun design. (North Korea, on the other hand, first focused on the plutonium implosion type, and the North Koreans only switched to U-235 after the agreement in the 1990's that they have now admitted abrogating.)

[Myrddin]

I agree, but I think a smallpox or anthrax mega release are more likely.

I think the cases of "norwalk" virus on the cruise ships is a demonstration of how easily a smallpox attack could be accomplished. The spread of West Nile is also an example of how simple it is to introduce a vector borne virus. These are simple "probes" to test the perimeter. There isn't one. A release of a weaponized bioweapon is unlikely to be detected or halted until well after a significant deployment. It won't be a very nice situation.

[Quix]

Have felt similarly for quite some time.

Pathetic also comes to mind.