Comments on: DON’T LET THIS DIE! http://landgazr.megaweblog.com/2006/05/01/dont-let-this-die/ No food for thought here, just appetizers! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:24:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU by: landgazr http://landgazr.megaweblog.com/2006/05/01/dont-let-this-die/#comment-12 Mon, 01 May 2006 22:45:23 +0000 http://landgazr.megaweblog.com/2006/05/01/dont-let-this-die/#comment-12 Thanks for your comment, Goemagog! I would take issue with your statement: "the head of iraq's nuclear weapons program repeatedly went to niger shopping for uranium" Multiple sources have said, however, that it wasn't explicit - the manner of Iraq's contacts with Niger only suggested that they may have been shopping for uranium. Granted the substance makes up the bulk of their exports, but since the two primary mines are controlled by France and monitored by the IAEA, wouldn't they have better luck going elsewhere? Or were Iraq's emissaries possibly just fools? The ISG report did state that Saddam's intent to acquire WMD was alive and well and that he was skating around UN sanctions. They also, however, concluded that it had no deployable WMD as of March 2003 and his nuclear program was terminated in 1991. Thanks for your comment, Goemagog! I would take issue with your statement: “the head of iraq’s nuclear weapons program repeatedly went to niger shopping for uranium” Multiple sources have said, however, that it wasn’t explicit - the manner of Iraq’s contacts with Niger only suggested that they may have been shopping for uranium. Granted the substance makes up the bulk of their exports, but since the two primary mines are controlled by France and monitored by the IAEA, wouldn’t they have better luck going elsewhere? Or were Iraq’s emissaries possibly just fools?

The ISG report did state that Saddam’s intent to acquire WMD was alive and well and that he was skating around UN sanctions. They also, however, concluded that it had no deployable WMD as of March 2003 and his nuclear program was terminated in 1991.

]]> by: goemagog http://landgazr.megaweblog.com/2006/05/01/dont-let-this-die/#comment-11 Mon, 01 May 2006 21:23:09 +0000 http://landgazr.megaweblog.com/2006/05/01/dont-let-this-die/#comment-11 his story hasn't gotten any traction because it's not true. the kay report documented the discovered nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs, although it says it found no finished weapons. the head of iraq's nuclear weapons program repeatedly went to niger shopping for uranium (fortunately for us, they didn't like him and wouldn't sell him any). his story hasn’t gotten any traction because it’s not true. the kay report documented the discovered nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs, although it says it found no finished weapons. the head of iraq’s nuclear weapons program repeatedly went to niger shopping for uranium (fortunately for us, they didn’t like him and wouldn’t sell him any).

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