Nuke component unearthed in Baghdad back yard

CNN ^ | 25 June 2003 | From David Ensor

[July 4th]

WASHINGTON (CNN) --The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.

[VOA]

folks should be paying more attention to (believe it or not) Clinton Admin weapons expert
Kenneth Pollack.
Although I haven't read it, I heard Laura Ingraham give a good review of his article in
The New York Times last week that documents that virtually all civilized
countries agreed that Saddam had active WMD programs...the only disagreement
was how to neutalize Saddam and his weapons.

Pollack also explains how Saddam most likely concentated on getting
capability to make chem/bio WMDs following Gulf War I...bidding his time
until the world "looked the other way" or he decided to use quickly
synthesize these unstable WMDs and rush them to the front.

[M. Thatcher]

the UN was willing to take an honest and thorough look.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry. That doesn't pass the gaffaw test.

[jla]

^

[Lady In Blue]

re: your post #338 - I HEARD THAT TOO! It was really kind of strange.It's been in the back of my mind since I first heard it!

[hoosiermama]

But not since the Vietnam has the populace been so severely stage managed into such a questionable adventure.
II'm telling you these folks put LBJ and his bunch to shame.

I'm reading TREASON by AC today. What you said is almost identical to how she says liberals handle any conflict. Compare everything to Vietnam and LBJ. Read the chapters of her book on VIetnam and then reread your posts today. Hhhmmm?!?!?!?

[Smogger]

Anyone want to bet 1. Whether the critics will heed the warning and 2. Whether Bush will eventually chop off the limb they are all sitting on ?

Bush has all the time in the world to reveal the existance of weapons of mass destruction. I'm sure he'll wait until the election draws near. This issue is getting no play outside the "beltway" and had done nothing to hurt Bush's ratings.

[SSN558]

"Ok, no big deal. I got one in my back yard. Don't you?"

It was only a few parts of a centrifuge. In perspective you can find parts of nuclear weapons in metal yards and surplus shops in the U.S. if you know what you are looking for. It ain't no big thing.

I have never found nuke parts at a gun show, but I do know an engineer that has a multi-million $$$$ star wars rocket engine injector in his garage. Bought it at surplus sales for $10.

[stboz]

Yeah, I know about that. We made green cake (UF4) from phosphoric acid in Tampa for a while until that dolt fell asleep at the controls at Three Mile Island. We'd send it on to another plant where it was converted to UF6.

[SSN558]

"three years with this equipment"

Nope. I have seen enrichment equipment and it takes a whole plant to produce it. I estimate you would need a building of 2000 sq feet and lots of equipment just to produce a few grams a year.

[browardchad]

the UN was willing to take an honest and thorough look

Well, of course, they were so honest and thorough they made sure the Iraqis were tipped off ahead of time as to inspection sites and times. And we all know that 100 inspectors can dig up just about every backyard in Iraq (where most of this stuff is most probably buried) in a few months, and the scientists were just dying (literally) to talk to them, since Blix refused to take them and their families out of country.

Get real.

[leftiesareloonie]

I have nothing against most of what Bush stands for -- especially on the domestic side. But I do think that his rhetoric before the war was dishonest. I resent having the country taken to war pell mell on a fraudulent basis.

Do you think the US armed forces are a sort of moral expeditionary force, that their mission is to liberate the oppressed everywhere?

Don't get me wrong. I'm for liberation of oppressed people everywhere, but I don't view the US Army as sort of the on-call moral police of the world.

[homeschool mama]

**The point is the UN was willing to take an honest and thorough look. **

Oh, that's rich. LOL

The UN had no intention of taking a thorough look at anything. Their obvious myopia prevents them from doing so.

[leftiesareloonie]

And your point?

[savedbygrace]

R O S E B U D

[homeschool mama]

Worth repeating by Mr. Mojo:

The best way to answer people who assert that GWB is lying about Iraq's WMD is to point out that it's the UN that claims to have this evidence. After the UN inspectors were kicked out of Iraq in 1998, they prepared a report of what they had verified Iraq had in its possession, including many thousands of liters of anthrax and over 10,000 chemical artillery shells. The destruction of these weapons is required by resolution 1441, and it's very clearly stated.

So we know with absolutely certainty that Iraq had these weapons. Where there are now is another story entirely, and my suspicion is that they're probably in Syria and/or Russia (if they're not still in Iraq). It's a large country with thousands of places to hide the damn things, so people who say that our inability to find anything so far proves anything are a bit hasty.

GWB is not lying.

267 posted on 05/28/2003 3:32 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

[alnick]

But again, a buried barrel of plans and parts that hadn't been touched (apparently) for a decade isn't exactly "mounting" or "serious".

So how would you feel about 300 bags of castor beans in bags labeled "fertilizer" and a document (one among millions just discovered), dated 2001, entitled, "Document burial and U.N. activities in Iraq” which, according to MSNBC, "gave detailed instructions on how to hide materials and deceive U.N. weapons inspectors"?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/931304.asp?0cm=c10

[alnick]

I'll ask you the same question that I asked another poster in post 377.

[MJY1288]

The fact is... Nobody will ever find any of the WMD's unless we have Iraqi's tell us. The first weapons inspectors sent in by the U.N. during the 90's had some talented people working in that group and they did find and destroy quite a bit. But the group that Hans Blix put together was a joke and wouldn't do well in an Easter Egg hunt, how the hell would they be able to find hidden weapons buried in the ground in steel drums under someones rose gardens?

I believe the scientist that came forward this past week and told us where the parts to the Gas centrifuge and the documents were, will be the break we needed to get these well educated Iraqi scientist to come forward.

Tom Daschle and the rest of the liberals are going to be very "SADDENED"

[Brad’s Gramma]

Okey dokey. Yep.