Here is what I posted to a W&P section of an automotive forum that I frequent
New York Times Validates Bush's Reason for War!!
I don't think they meant to do this, but they did.
Here is their article:
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”
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The campaign for the online archive was mounted by conservative publications and politicians, who said that the nation’s spy agencies had failed adequately to analyze the 48,000 boxes of documents seized since the March 2003 invasion. With the public increasingly skeptical about the rationale and conduct of the war, the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees argued that wide analysis and translation of the documents — most of them in Arabic — would reinvigorate the search for clues that Mr. Hussein had resumed his unconventional arms programs in the years before the invasion. American search teams never found such evidence.
Now, I'm sure your asking how this shows a more current threat.
But, if these documents are valid, then the rest of the 48,000 boxes of documents are valid as well.
jveritas on freerepublic.com has read only 40,000 pages of them and has found quite a lot of disturbing stuff. I've posted some of the translations here, only to be told that they didn't mean anything. Like Saddam offering to pay suicide bombers to take out American interests.
And, 2001 documents talking about Saddam restarting his Nuke program.
Jveritas has responded to the NYT article
Here is a link to his response:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731259/posts?page=1,50[/url]
And here is a quick quote from his response:
On the subject of nuclear program, I translated and posted a document last month dated January 2001 that shows without a shadow of doubt that Saddam was personally involved with his nuclear scientist to re-build the nuclear program. [B]In this document it states that Saddam personally approved his Iraqi Atomic Energy Agency to re-use nuclear equipments that include something called “Degussa Furnaces”[/B] that were used in the previous and prohibited Iraq nuclear program. These furnaces can be used to melt uranium and other nuclear related activities. The Degussa Vacuum furnaces were supplied to Iraq in the 1980’s by a German firm (Degussa AG based in Frankfurt Germany) and these furnaces later on became the subject of investigations of the German firm in the early 1990’s where the company claimed that they did not know that Iraq would have used them in its nuclear program.
The New York Times had an article in 1998 titled “An Iraqi Defector Warns of Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Research” where the Degussa furnaces were mentioned as part of “previous” Iraq nuclear program and the controversy surrounding the sale of these furnaces and the investigations later on(link: [url]http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/iraqi_defector.html[/url] ). The irony is that this is not only a New York Times article but also it was written by JUDITH MILLER and JAMES RISEN once of the worst accusers (liars) that the Bush administration lied about Iraq WMD. Where are you Scott Shane????"
I know the NYT meant for this to be a hit piece on Bush, but instead it proves all of his pre-war concerns.
Here is a link to the 2001 Document:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725141/posts[/url]
I also emailed a lot of people on the email list.
I'll update everyone on what the liberals have to say on that forum.
Let me guess the security experts that had a problem with the site.
Pincus, the VIPs and the usual suspects that pop up continuously when any question of WMDs Able Danger or anything else pops up. A lot of the Clinton era security and intel folk fancy themselves columnists... they also know they were working at the time in question, doesn't look good does it? I'm sure they pushed the Clintonistas still on the hill and in the agencies to shut the site down. There's a reason it took us so long to get the documents. It's always been said that said documents would damage many administrations... including ours.
If they want to look at something, maybe they can check out cryptome as well... they have the pictures and docs to match... as i'm sure the NYTs has been looking at for some time, they've used eyeballs on Cheneys house from there.