I'm roiled, I tell ya!
"...he called "Lied" a "three-letter word and "deceit" a "five-letter word." The candidate maintains he's ready for prime-time."
This from the man who was President of Florida...twice!
Excellent, JH2! It's up to your usual superior standards!
Thank you for posting this, BobJ.
John is missing very important ingredients in this yellow cake mix...the first was provided by Stephen Hadley, Bush's #2 security guy...
An unsigned CIA memo on Oct. 5 advised that "the CIA had reservations about the British reporting" on Iraq's alleged attempts in Niger, Hadley said. A second memo, sent on Oct. 6, elaborated on the CIA's doubts, describing "some weakness in the evidence," such as the fact that Iraq already had a large stock of uranium and probably wouldn't need more, Hadley said.Then add this second ingredient provided by the IAEA's own inspection reports...
Sept 30, 2002 - Several Iraqi nuclear weapons facilities and much equipment were indeed dismantled or destroyed by U.N. inspectors between 1991 and 1998. However, substantial and significant issues about Iraq’s ability to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program remained unresolved when the inspectors left the country.Why wasn't THAT info in the SOTU? IMHO, Hadley should be fired for his stupidity and the CIA needs to desperately clean house.Dolley, citing IAEA’s own inspection reports as documentation, said: “Iraq has never surrendered to inspectors its two completed designs for a nuclear bomb, nuclear-bomb components such as explosive lenses and neutron initiators that it is known to have possessed, or almost any documentation of its efforts to enrich uranium to bomb-grade using gas centrifuges, devices which are small and readily concealed from reconnaissance.”[5]
Moreover, IAEA has previously conceded that Iraq’s weaponization R&D---small-scale technical research devoted to the design of a nuclear bomb’s components---is not readily detected by means of inspections. IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei stated in 1998 that “no matter how comprehensive the inspection, any country-wide verification process, in Iraq or anywhere else, has a degree of uncertainty that aims to verify the absence of readily concealable objects such as small amounts of nuclear material or weapons components.”[6]
The IAEA’s own guidelines for the safeguarding of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium gives the conversion time for transforming these materials into weapons components as on the order of seven to ten days or one to three weeks, depending on the form the materials are in (metal, oxide or nitrate) when the materials are acquired by means of diversion or theft.[7] Thus, Iraq could be capable of producing a nuclear weapon in less than a month with sufficient diverted or stolen fissile material if it has managed to fabricate and conceal all of the non-nuclear components of a weapon.
Not to mention, those enlightened and sophisticated Euros and the UN. "Hey, you Americans, we hate your guts, but don't take it personally. Go get'em! We're right behind you...right behind this big, thick wall. Let us know when it's over."