Yesterday, The NY Times reported that the US government posted on the internet "some documents that weapons experts say are a danger... detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb..." The web site is now shut down.
How is this possible? I thought Saddam wasn't a threat - that he had nothing to do with WMDs. I thought President Bush misled us into the war. How could such documents exist? According to the article Saddam's "scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away..." How can this be? ... Hmmm... This is a real puzzler!
(I first came across this story via Instapundit. The direct link to the Times story came via a post by Dean Barnett over at Hugh Hewitt.com. See also Wretchard's commentary over at the Belmont Club.)
2 comments:
So he possibly was working on maybe developing nuclear weapons before the FIRST gulf war?...puh-leaze. This is a rational for the current,how does Jon Stewart put it, catastrafuck? How do the degine verge? 10 years away? Iraq would have had this technology before Iran? Iran would have let them?
Keep spinning, Dexter. He wasn't possibly developing nukes. He WAS working on developing nukes.
As for geopolitical insights, I'll rely on someone other than Jon Stewart.
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