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Clandestine uranium enrichment program
Posted: October 19, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Gordon Prather
C 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
You may well have heard - since Oct. 2 - many a Bush-Cheney warhawk
voicing the lament of that great 20th-century
metaphysician, Jimmy Durante: "What a revoltin' development this is!"
Why the lament? Thereon hangs a tale.
You see, ever since they came to power, these Bush-Cheney warhawks have
been trying to find a rationale for forcing a regime
change on the Islamic world that would resonate with you soccer-moms.
After Sept. 11 of last year, they thought they had
found it.
Here is the way House Majority Whip Tom Delay phrased it, as Congress
debated last week whether or not to give President
Bush the authority he sought to invade and occupy Iraq:
The war on terrorism will be fought here at home unless we summon
the will to confront evil before it
attacks. Only regime change can remove the danger from Saddam's
weapons of mass destruction. Only by
taking them out of his hands and destroying them can we be certain
that terror weapons won't wind up in
the hands of terrorists.
Explication?
Islamic terrorists have declared war on the United States, and we
have declared war on them.
If they get their hands on a nuclear weapon, they will nuke you
soccer-moms in your jammies.
We need to prevent - at the source - their getting nukes.
Saddam Hussein spent zillions of dollars to develop his own nukes
to counter Israeli nukes.
We whipped his donkey in the Gulf War, and then totally destroyed
his multi-zillion dollar nuke program.
Now, Saddam hates our donkey, as well as the Israelis'.
Saddam would still like to have a few nukes, mostly to use on the
Israelis.
But, if Saddam somehow got more than a few, he might give a couple
to Islamic terrorists, to nuke you soccer-moms.
Therefore, we must invade Iraq muy pronto, hang Saddam Hussein from
a sour apple tree, destroy all those nukes that
Saddam might have - but probably doesn't - and install a U.S.
puppet government in Iraq.
The key to getting authorization from Congress - and, if possible, from
the United Nations Security Council - to invade and
occupy Iraq was in providing convincing evidence that Saddam would soon
have nukes.
So, Prime Minister Tony Blair published a "dossier" compiled by his
Joint Intelligence Committee.
In particular, Blair claimed that - since 1998 - Saddam has attempted to
purchase 1) "molecular" vacuum pumps used in
uranium-enrichment gas centrifuges, 2) a turn-key facility for producing
magnets used in third-generation gas centrifuges, 3)
anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and fluorine gas used to convert uranium
into uranium hexafluoride for use in uranium-enrichment
cascades, 4) a large filament-winding machine for manufacturing
third-generation composite gas-centrifuge rotors, and 5) a
large balancing machine for dynamically balancing gas-centrifuge rotors.
Largely on the basis of the Bush-Blair claim that Saddam is actively
attempting to construct cascades of gas centrifuges to
enrich uranium, Congress has now given President Bush the authority to
invade and occupy Iraq - under the auspices of the
United Nations Security Council if at all possible, but unilaterally, if
he deems it necessary.
President Bush had already demanded that the UNSC pass the tough new
disarmament resolution we offered, and authorize us
to invade and occupy Iraq if Saddam isn't in full compliance with it by
Tuesday of next week.
Even though there was almost no possibility that the UNSC would accept
our resolution, Secretary Powell has been trying.
Now there is no chance.
You see, the evidence we have had all along that North Korea was
constructing a clandestine gas-centrifuge cascade to enrich
uranium - in violation of the U.S.-IAEA-DPRK Agreed Framework - was far
better and more alarming than any we had for
Iraq.
The Agreed Framework resulted from the discovery in 1994 by the IAEA
that North Korea was already producing some
weapons-grade plutonium and was on the verge of producing lots of it.
So, Clinton-Gore bribed the North Koreans: If they
shut down their plutonium producing reactors, Clinton-Gore would build
them conventional nuclear-power plants that don't
produce weapons-grade plutonium.
Now comes the stunning revelation, kept secret from Congress, the UNSC
and perhaps even the IAEA until now: On Oct. 2,
the North Koreans confirmed our suspicions. They admitted they were now
producing weapons-grade uranium and declared
the Agreed Framework null and void.
Talk about a revoltin' development. What everyone now wants to know is
why Bush-Cheney warhawks aren't demanding the
UNSC authorize a U.S.-led invasion and occupation of North Korea, rather
than Iraq.
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Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing
official for national security-related technical
matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and
Development Administration, the Department of
Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the
Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative
assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon,
R-Okla. -- ranking member of the Senate Budget
Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations
Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier
worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in California and Sandia National
Laboratory in New Mexico.
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