[bkepley]

Cuz it's nothing. Pre-1991 weapons, everyone knows Saddam had those weapons pre-1991, where's the story? Call again when there's something interesting.

[driftless]

"everyone knows"

Tell that to my lib friends who refuse to believe that Hussein every had any.

[attiladhun2]

According to Khidhir Hamza in Saddam's Bombmaker (pp.333-337), by 1994 Iraq already had an assembled nuclear device "capable of producing a nuclear explosion equivalent to a few kilotons of TNT... What we lacked was a complete nuclear core". (p. 334). He stated they were very close to having a nuclear weapon and that Saddam intended to drop it unannounced on Israel. What I want to know is why we never heard any of this from the MSM. Futhermore, what ever happened to this already assembled device? By the way, this was post '91. Saddam was supposed to destroy all WMDs according to the cease fire that ended Desert Storm. Even as late as Mar. '03 Iraq was negotiating with N. Korea for long range missles. So whether the stuff was pre-Desert Storm or not makes no diffence, Saddam was in violation.