[ContentiousObjector]

the weapons inspectors found tons of them, and if the scientists walked off with this thing just before the start of the first gulf war because he knew it would be destroyed when his facility was bombed, the Iraqi government probably counted it as destroyed in the bombing.

[jimbo123]

Scott Ritter? Is that you? Don't you have an date at Burger King to keep?

[Frank_Discussion]

Are you saying some scientist/technician felt all sentimental and said "Don't let them kill my baby!" and ran off with the thing?

Are you bonging, like, right now, dude?

[Dog]

Let me ask you this .....if this find is not a big deal.....then why didn't this scientist and Iraq turn this over to the UN weapons inspectors and Hans Blix??

Why because they planned to use them in a future weapons program.

[scourge]

I don't think that anybody walked off with anything in Sadam's regime without him knowing about it.

[jwalsh07]

if anything it is proof that Iraq didn't have an active program at the time of the second gulf war, because if they didn't they wouldn't have left the stuff to rot in a guys back yard

OK, I'll bite, are you Kerry or Dean?

Dude the significance of the find is the documentation to construct, maintain and make use of gas centrifuges for enriching uranium.