On Mon, 03 May 2004 20:58:12 -0500, Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Denton wrote: > > > Well, I learned about the reliability of the American press > > last year when I went to independent sources and found out > > that Iraq had shut down its nuclear weapons program > > immediately after the first Gulf War. > > Where did this information come from? That definitely sounds > like one of those "extraordinary claims require extraordinary > evidence" sorta situations... ___________________________________________________________________ > Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
God, where have you been? Do you just watch Fox? Sorry, this has been in my blog so many times and finally filtered out to mainstream media months ago. Here Is USATODAY 12/1/03 but I think it is more than a little self-serving and also was set up to provide an out for intel in the US who got it wrong. "Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut the operation down for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say. "Other leading physicists, in Baghdad interviews, said the hope for an Iraqi atomic bomb was never realistic. "It was all like building sand castles," said Abdel Mehdi Talib, Baghdad University's dean of sciences. " http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-01-iraq-arms_x.htm Now my blog mostly had it from Imad Khadduri who posted it on the web in November of 02. He was a real Iraqi nuclear scientist who escaped to Canada, unlike the fake bombmaker Khidhir Hamza, who Chalabi and the neocons provided the American press. After the first Gulf War all engineers were pressed into service to repair all the damage from US bombing and shut down the nuclear weapons program which Saddam had agreed to do. What is more the CIA and US intelligence knew this from Kamil who told them and provided documents in 94. http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=874 I could go more into the example of Kamil and how his evidence of shut down programs was twisted by neocons, not the CIA, to support a war but that is not what you are asking. My archive search can only reach back to 2/14/03 but you can see by my post I had it earlier: "They were getting notoriety for carrying Imad Khadduri, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who has stated that Iraq's nuclear program was shut down after Gulf War 1 and that Khidhir Hamza, another former Iraqi scientist, and the Bush administration have fabricated and exaggerated claims otherwise." http://elemming2.blogspot.com/2003_02_14_elemming2_archive.html Is that enough, or would three or more examples be better? I really thought that Bush and Cheney should have been providing that extraordinary evidence, didn't you? #1 on google for liberal news http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
