Posted on 07/06/2004 6:09:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
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Material from Iraq's nuclear programs were secured after the first gulf war and were under IAEA supervision. Much of the stuff was looted after the invasion last year (people dumped materials and took the canisters to carry water). All of this has been widely reported (and I believe even discussed here to great extent).
Hence the "sarcasm" notation.
you have to show some patients waggle.
mastequilla, we have discussed a lot of things here that the main stream media ignores in their quest to defeat Bush. It is rather frustrating and makes me think of what it was like to have been part of Goebbels Germany while knowing what he preached were all lies and distractions.
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Sorry, I ran a search and somehow missed it.
no problem ... actually, the more threads the merrier, so everyone knows about it.
as a former radiation health tech for the Navy all i can say is that people would be suprised and possibly alarmed at what the U.S. has recovered and where it has been found as far as radiologicals.
"Material from Iraq's nuclear programs were secured after the first gulf war and were under IAEA supervision."
That "supervision" was up until 1998 when Saddam threw the inspectors out, correct ?
I'm not sure - I do believe that the materials were sealed up until the time the looting started (at least that is what has been widely reported).
http://www.nci.org/new/iraq-ib.htm
http://www.nci.org/02/01/16-04.htm
" Iraq has been cooperative with the Vienna-based IAEA, but has not allowed U.N. arms inspectors back to the country since 1998, accusing them of being "spies" for the U.S.."
Found an interesting statement -
"An IAEA team visited Iraq at the beginning of last year ... and was assured that Iraq's nuclear materials were in a stable state," the spokesman said."
It "was assured" that... not IT assured - sounds to me like they were assured by someone else, not that they did the assuring themselves as they were supposed to.
Why trust anyone from the UN?
Bump for your post.
I would probably scared at that knowledge.
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Interesting. Third article, and third source.
Sure is taking NYTimes a long time to retract "joe wilson".
I haven't seen anything about this on the cable news, do not watch the three Danny/Peter/Tommy shows.
Bump for posterity.
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