[justa-hairyape]

Production of the enriched uranium, I believe, is the most difficult part of producing a viable nuclear bomb ? Imagine were we would be now if we had not gotten rid of Saddam. The UN would be fully compromised with 'Oil for Food' and Saddam would have carried out nuclear blackmail on his neighbors with his one bomb. We can also assume that Saddam's previous use of WMD on Iran, and Saddam's attempt to produce a nuclear weapon by acquiring enriched uranium, must have been what initially drove Iran to develop a nuclear weapons program.

[sageb1]

How much proof is needed by the liberals?

An American city annihilated?

[bikerman]

It can`t be so the RATS said their are no WMD`s must be a mistake.

[Gondring]

The IAEA knew of Saddam's uranium. The problem here isn't that he had it...it's that the inspections weren't allowed to confirm it wasn't being put into use!

[Boundless]

Expect the Legacy Media to focus on the "1" number,
and not the "142" number.

Also expect them to deprecate the "1" number with
arguments like: "Well, that was no threat. He wouldn't
even have been able to test it." Testing is not needed.

Keep in mind that the US did not test its Uranium gun-type
bomb either. The Hiroshima device was tested on Hiroshima.
They are that simple. What we tested at Trinity was the
Plutonium implosion-type device later used on Nagasaki.

[Trueblackman]

Wait Saddam had no WMD's....Someone is lying here, there needs to be an investigation into this cooked intelligence.

[greasepaint]

was the IAEA aware of the two tons of
partly enriched uranium?

[BenLurkin]

Kudos to NewsMax for breaking this story.

Are there any links to other news sources picking up on this story?

[Strategerist]

Even Saddam's 500-ton un-enriched uranium stockpile, which he stored at the same nuclear weapons research facility where inspectors found his partially enriched stash, posed a potential threat.

The above is somewhat misleading as it wasn't "Found", both stashes were known and declared to the IAEA, under IAEA seal, visited by inspectors (right up to right before GW II) and posession of them was not a violation of any UN sanctions.

Not that anyone really cares about the above as it's easily avaliable information but basically ignored by FR.

[CommandoFrank]

Though President Bush didn't mention it in his speech yesterday rebutting critics of his administration's use of intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,

And therein lies the problem. Always has been, still is.

What do you want to bet we hear nothing else like yesterdays speech again?

[agincourt1415]

Main Stream Media Policy on this ignore, or bury this on page g12.

[Bob from De]

Fall of 2002, sometime after October 9 - A report from the U.S. Navy suggests that uranium being transferred from Niger to Iraq was discovered in a warehouse in Cotonou, Benin. The report indicates that the broker for the deal is willing to talk about it, but, mysteriously he is never contacted by the CIA or military intelligence.

Page 59 of the Senate Report confirms that this Navy report was received at CIA. The DO at CIA, when questioned about this report made a number of excuses with the best being "no one thought to do that". The question was "why didn't you check on this report".

HELLO?

The broker for this deal said that it was the President of Niger making the sale. They have his name and phone numbers!

Mr. Wilson's excellent adventure was in February 2002!

[street_lawyer]

The question is why don't the republicans make hay with these strands of information?

The answer is that the MSM has them shivering in their boots. They are afraid of their own shadow. Because if they say one word it will make perhaps a few papers in the country, but the aftermath will be a diatribe in hundreds of articles and for a hundred days bashing that stupid politician for the everything from using his official government issued credit card to fill up the tank of his wife's car, to whatever they can manufacture that is totally bogus.

The conservative politician has to think that if he wants to be reelected he will have to keep his big fat mouth shut. Frankly, I see no hope for democracy if the MSM is in control of the facts and not our elected officials.

[chaosagent]

bookmark

[P.O.E.]

See, so Bush lied. He said "weaponS", meaning more than one. So there was nothing to worry about. /sarc

[AliVeritas]

Remember this article? It seems no one else does either:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38213

No one remembers when one week before the election WaPo reported that 10,000 tons of weapons were missing either.

[Calpernia]

Iraqi Tour

[marblehead17]

ping

[ez]

This misleading title would lead the casual headline-only reader to conclude that the sum total of all Saddam's uranium was enough for one nuke. That is not true.

While he had enough partially enriched uranium for one nuke, he had enough unprocessed uranium for 143 nukes.

[Just mythoughts]

One has to wonder what exactly is known in the "classified" bowels of this government where Saddam's WMD's actually ended up.

Now if he never had them then these liberals got some explaining to do about their fear mongering got take Saddam out in 1998.