[AmericanInTokyo]

"KUWAIT (AFP) - Iraq has halted operations at a nuclear power reactor at the center of an international row, a move that could let Baghdad reprocess spent fuel to retract plutonium and boost its nuclear arsenal, a press report said. Washington has verified that operations at the five-megawatt reactor in Samawah were suspended in April, the influential daily said in a report from Washington quoting sources including US government officials. The US administration reached the conclusion by analysing satellite pictures and estimating temperatures on the walls of nuclear facilities and amounts of steam coming from boilers at Samawah, south of Baghdad, the report said. Baghdad could double its nuclear arsenal if it reprocesses 8,000 spent nuclear rods from the Samawah reactor as it has claimed to have done before."

2002: What would have been our response? Further, useless, "Six Party Talks" with the Germans, French, Kuwaitis, Israelis, Egyptians and ourselves?

[American in Israel]

It does not double their arsenal, it allows them to make the bombs so small they can mount them on their long range missiles. It is the final step to full scale Nuclear War and will enable them to nuke our troops in Iraq, and our fleets supplying them.

Yep, last lap...