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Posted on 07/18/2003 1:23:34 AM PDT by kattracks
In this column are several sentences that were the most important I had read when I first saw them. They still are. If American politicians, particularly the candidates for President, do not pay intense, continuous attention to them, or dismiss them to get more votes, as the Democrats are doing now, the U.S. will have to fight Iraq for many years to come, and other rogue nations and terrorists will be made fearsomely stronger. Please, for your sake and your children's, understand that.The sentences are: "In 1998, when Iraq shut down inspections and ejected me and my team, it had still not surrendered, as it was required, key components and plans for its nuclear weapons. Since that time, it has been reliably reported that Saddam has reassembled his nuclear weapons design team. All he lacks for a nuclear weapon are the core materials. He has the know-how.
"There is repeated and disturbing evidence that criminal groups inside Russia have attempted to smuggle and sell those materials to him. Given his extensive black-market oil operations, now yielding billions of dollars each year, he could pay an extraordinary sum for such materials.
"It is beyond doubt that he is willing to do so."
Those sentences were published in "Fatal Choice" by Richard Butler, a former Australian ambassador. He was pushed out of his job as chief of the UN Special Commission to disarm Iraq by UN politicians and diplomats - usually the same thing. He was too eager to do his job - to find out whether Iraq was living up to the disarmament promises that dictator Saddam Hussein made after he lost the Gulf War in 1991. Of course, he hadn't.
Butler and his inspectors were kicked out. I have not met knowledgeable nuclear weapons specialists who have dismissed the belief that Saddam is even more panting now to acquire nuclear weapons than he was before. He would use his own assets, his America-hating allies like North Korea and Syria, or any material and technology he stashed away in other countries against the day he still lives for - a nuclear attack against America.
But about these possibilities and dangers, the Democratic candidates sayeth naught. Instead, they have seized one sentence about Niger as the center of their whole campaign. It was uttered by President Bush. It may have been inaccurate or wrong or a communications error. The sentence indicated that Saddam wanted to buy more uranium from Niger, a long-time supplier to Iraq. So, the Democrats cooked up an exciting line of attack: Bush used that excuse to frighten the U.S. into war-in-a-hurry with Iraq.
It was not just the candidates who spread that story, but tables-full of Democratic contributors across the country. The attempted distortion of the opponent usually comes from one or just a few of the candidates. This time, the guilt so far is on almost all the Democratic candidates. No one Democratic candidate has to carry it on his forehead alone.
The issues are not only the fact that Iraq has been getting closer to rebuilding its nuclear weapons capacity. The number of states with nuclear weapons grows almost every year, and most of them are not in love with the U.S. Americans now treat that with a yawn, as if they never heard of Hiroshima. The only word I know to describe this casual attitude toward nuclear weaponry becoming more scattered around the world is "idiocy." And there is the possibility - more likely a probability - that Saddam passed the knowledge of nuclear weapons and their components to other rogue states or terrorist organizations.
But instead of talking about the status of the nuclear danger now, not years ago, the Democrats dismissed that boring subject. Instead, they cooked up their attack.
The threat of a Niger-Iraq coalition against the U.S. might be funny except for the pain of American parents to be told over and over by Democratic politicians that their own President was rushing their children into war. Now the Democrats are bringing it up every hour, on the hour, bringing more agony to America. It is disgusting.
Originally published on July 18, 2003
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It's worse than disgusting. It's providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
Unopposed American power is the main obstacle to the left's utopian-socialist vision for the world. These people are ashamed to be American, and are quick to tell you they are "citizens of the world".
Ann Coulter is the only one using the correct word to describe it.
Nope, it's the New York Daily News....
So the lie contiunes, even in this otherwise excellent article. The President said "Africa", not "Niger".
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