Saddam Restarted Nuclear Program

World Threats ^ | 3-10-2010

[reaganwasright1980]

At the time of the 1990 offer, Iraq was embarked in a crash program to develop nuclear weapons in the face of a threatened U.S.-led attack over its occupation of Kuwait. By that date, Iraqi scientists had acquired a limited amount of weapons-grade enriched uranium but lacked several key components, including a workable design for a small nuclear warhead.

[Captain Kirk]

Oh...please enlighten the benighted. You apparently believe Saddam had a WMD program in the late 1990s and early 200s. Right? Okay, let’s see your evidence.

[editor-surveyor]

"And folks say your boy Ron Paul and his followers are the same as the anti war lefty kooks..."

It has become obvious at this point that each of Ron Paul's 'followers' has seized upon a handful of his observations and compliants, and extrapolated from them to their own bizzare beliefs, thus the 'Real' Ron Paul is nothing but a spray of projections that his so-called followers find satisfying, even though untested.

[LS]

1) You cannot deny that Saddam had the uranium.

2)You have no evidence whatsoever that anyone, anywhere, anyhow could resist Saddam taking whatever he wanted in Iraq and doing whatever he wanted with it.

Slam dunk.

When you then combine that with the fact that at any minute he could "nationalize" that, hand it to al-Quaeda or whomever, without one other cause, that alone made the war worth it and necessary.

[mountainlion]

The UN Inspectors were a multinational joke. Read Saddam's Secrets by Georges Sada and get the inside story. There were over 50 flights of yellow cake to Syria under the guise of Humanitarian aid. Saddam's sons took convoys of weapons and supplies to Syria under the nose of UN inspectors also.

[Captain Kirk]

The evidence is there. 500 tons of it. In Saddam’s possession.

And....none of this yellowcake was a secret in 2002, all of it was identifed post Gulf War I by inspectors, all of it is in undisturbed 1992 drums, none of it disturbed by Saddam after the inspectors left, and Bush didn't even think it worthwhile to emphasize the existence of said yellowcake. Which one of these points do you dispute? Give us your best shot. You must be able to do better than this!?

[lonestar67]

Here is some evidence:

http://www.globalpolitician.com/21610-iraq-syria-wmd

It is rarely discussed with seriousness but why is it not seriously considered that WMD were moved to Syria.

We are all supposed to look the other way when Israel bombs a nuclear facility in 2007. So the Syrian Baathist were building WMD and Nuclear weapons but of course the allied iraqi Baathist were not.

Saddam wanted the world to think he had the weapons and was willing to use them. It was an established part of his international persona. The continued effort to refashion Saddam into a neutered cooperative global citizen is immoral.

It is so annoying that the Left and the Right collaborate on this inhumane project.

[Captain Kirk]

Shifting the topic eh? Let’s stick with this one for awhile. What specific evidence do you (or anyone else) have the Saddam was using this yellowcake in a post Gulf War WMD project?

[ejonesie22]

You are kidding, right?

You think the yellow cake was there as party favors to Saddam's guests?

There have been years of posts that the assessments were either incomplete or tampered with.

The only folks who buy the party line from the UN are folks in the left.

I thought you were trying to get away from that charge leveled at you and the other Paulistinians...

[Arthur McGowan]

You’re not supposed to use the word “restarted” anymore!

[roses of sharon]

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/57506/sec_id/57506

http://davidbellavia.com/2010/new-english-review-article-on-british-iraq-inquiry-must-read/

Article unpacks the recent formal hearings the British held over their participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom:

The Worst of Intentions

Saddam wanted to keep his surge-production abilities in BW as well as in CW. As Duelfer described, a “break-out production capability” in BW existed at one site, the State Company for Drug Industries and Medical Appliances, SDI, at Samarra. ISG judged that Saddam could surge production of Anthrax spores within four months if he so desired. Let us assume that four months is not exactly a safe timeframe for our intelligence community to both detect and disrupt the anthrax threat before a hand-off to the terrorist group. To put it mildly.
Maybe this is why Dr. David Kay, Duelfer’s predecessor at ISG, reported to Congress in October 2003 that one scientist was ordered to conceal reference strains of BW organisms like anthrax, ricin and Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in his own refrigerator, which he turned over to ISG. The scientist knew of the location of other, much larger seed stockpiles, but these were unsurprisingly missing when ISG investigators showed up to collect them. Similarly, most of the hard drives, written reports, and lab samples suspected of being BW in refrigerators were deliberately and selectively vandalized and destroyed shortly before the coalition forces arrived, according to Dr. Kay.

Keep in mind: the real danger to Americans was not that Saddam would use chemical weapons in a final battle against American forces invading his country. Our forces can protect themselves against nearly every unconventional weapon with the gear and supplies they’re trained to use. The real danger was that Saddam would hand over smaller quantities (not battlefield quantities) of his anthrax spores to the next Mohammed Atta, who would then rent a crop-duster plane in Cedar Rapids and spray the good stuff all over Des Moines at rush hour. That was the danger we went to war over. It doesn’t take much more than one 155 millimeter shell filled with mustard gas to dump into the HEVAC system of the NBC Building in Chicago. Shortly before OIF, Hans Blix, of all people, found fourteen of these 155 mm shells filled with mustard gas, which totaled approximately 49 liters and was still at high purity (more than 90% concentrate). Blix’s UNMOVIC also found, among other things:

Approximately 500 ml of thiodiglycol
Some 122 mm chemical warheads
Some chemical equipment
224.6 kg of expired growth media
50 Al-Samoud II missiles

[ejonesie22]

Doesn't matter, Paulistinians are immune to facts.

It's their world of imagination, let ‘em live in it.

[roses of sharon]

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/id/218878

4 part cspan testimony of Tony Blair in recent months....

[roses of sharon]

Immoral yes...their reasons even more so.

They are still smarting from Saddam and Son's deaths because the financed targeting of Israeli women and children on buses and in the marketplace has ended.

But they still have Iran...notice how they now protect that nut job.

[mountainlion]

Here we go again. This yellowcake was identified and sequestered by inspectors after the first Gulf War. The storage containers date from 1992 and Saddam did not disturb them after that, even after the inspectors left.

Geroges Sada reports that 56 sorties flew yellow cake, chemicals and other stuff after June 2002.

[LS]

I don’t need to do anything. You’ve already lost this one. You admit that you had TONS of uranium in Saddam’s hands, that there wasn’t a damn thing anyone could so about it, short of invading. Thank you Pres. Bush. Lame, dude. It’s a lame argument on your part. You are required to show that Saddam could NOT have accessed this.

[AwesomePossum]

Check out the mighty jveritas..........lots of WMD, etc., info.........

http://www.freerepublic.com/~jveritas/

:}

[Captain Kirk]

We both know the truth and your failure to address my points proves it. To sum it up: The yellowcake was identified by inspectors post Gulf War I, sequestered, and not disturbed by Saddam. In short, Saddam did NOT have a nuclear program after Gulf War I. Your silence on that point says it all.

[LS]

We both know the truth, and you have not addressed the truth at all. Again, two simple points. Saddam had 500 TONS (get it? TONS) of uranium in his possession, and neither you nor Ron Paul nor the UN nor anyone else could have stopped him from using it however he chose (short of an invasion). Your silence on THAT shows you’ve lost, big time, and your little arguments are lame and beyond silly. Saying the UN inspectors knew where it was is is beyond comment.

[verity]

I am elated that Saddam and his henchmen have been executed. I also am elated that his two sons were blasted by a TOW missile from a unit attached to the 101st Abn.