The Senate Intelligence Committee -- a bipartisan
panel co-chaired by a Republican and a Democrat --
found that, far from disproving the Iraq-Niger story,
Ambassador Wilson�s report was interpreted as
providing "some confirmation of foreign government
service reporting" that Iraq had sought uranium in
Niger. This report is available for all to read online
at http://intelligence.senate.gov.
When these findings are seen in light of the report
submitted to Congress by weapons inspector David Kay,
there is no way around the fact that Saddam Hussein
was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, in addition to
his other efforts to expand his arsenal.
The October 2003 Kay Report states, "In 1999, the
Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) began an
expansion of its laboratories and research activities
and increased its overall funding levels." This is the
same time Iraqi officials visited Africa in an attempt
to acquire nuclear material! In addition, Kay found
that scientists were ordered to be on call to begin
full-blown nuclear research once again.
The moral of the story is that the intelligence on
this issue, far from being flawed, proves that Iraq
was pursuing its nuclear weapons programs. With this
evidence in mind, the Butler Report states that the
claims made public by both Prime Minister Blair and
President Bush that Iraq attempted to acquire nuclear
material Africa were "well-founded."
--- William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The nuclear weapons program was ready and waiting
>
> That would be evidence of WMD I should think, so
> where is it? Still waiting to be found? I should
> think that if the buildings are "ready and waiting"
> they would have been found by now, no?
>
> >All
> >the scientist were on standby and the buildings
> were
> >ready and unchanged waiting for the inspections to
> >end.
>
> But where?
>
> will
>
>
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