Posted on 11/03/2006 11:21:35 PM PST by JohnHuang2
As November surprises go, yesterday's New York Times story on the possible disclosure of an Iraqi nuclear-bomb-guide is something of a novelty. It cuts both ways.
Relevant government entities deserve condemnation and exhaustive investigation if it turns out that heretofore useful technical nuclear-bomb secrets were in fact disclosed amid the tens of thousands of pages of raw Iraqi government documents posted to the Internet after the March 2006 law requiring their disclosure. But for this to be true, it would also need to be true that the Iraqi weapons program was so advanced and so dangerous even in a remnant existence in a filing cabinet as to be a threat exploitable by Iran or other terrorist entities by virtue of being significantly more technically advanced.
And that's where this story cuts both ways. For this disclosure to be any threat at all, the left-wing meme that Saddam Hussein's nuclear-weapons program was not much of a threat would need to come tumbling down. One cannot be true without the other. This also sits inconveniently with the left's yellowcake arguments, previously the nuclear obstacle-du-jour for the Saddam-was-no-threat crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
One cannot be true without the other. Does anyone on the left get it?
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