Citing Bush administration officials, The New York Times reported Sunday that Iraq tried to buy thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes.The tubes, Rice said, "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs."
Rice acknowledged that "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon but said, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
Even an idiot can tell that she's making the case that Saddam had a serious nuclear weapons program.
So what did Dick Cheney say?
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Vice President Dick Cheney accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms."Increasingly, we believe that the United States may well become the target of those activities," Cheney said.
"And what we've seen recently that has raised our level of concern to the current state of unrest ... is that he now is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium -- specifically, aluminum tubes," Cheney said, referring to one of the elements for making nuclear weapons.
I'm sure even a moron like you can tell what he said there. Well, maybe not but thanks for making my point for me.
“Even an idiot can tell that she’s making the case that Saddam had a serious nuclear weapons program.”
Evidently why you spotted it?
And of course the tubes turned out not to be for centrifuges. But if they had been then it meant that Saddam was only at the stage of building centrifuges and not at the stage of building bombs. Which then require testing, which is how we usually know when someone has managed to build a bomb. They tend to give off large shock waves.
“I’m sure even a moron like you can tell what he said there. “
I’ll defer to your expertise once again, you are eminently better qualified in this instance.