This article from today prompted me to look up a report I heard about from the CIA.
First of all,
"Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from Iraq"
What??
How do materials like these disappear and neither the United States nor Iraq has anything to say about it?
Secondly, from the above article again-
"President Bush... justified the war, in part, by saying that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was on the brink of developing a nuclear bomb that he might use against the United States or give to terrorists."
Bush then picks Charles Duelfer to launch a thorough investigation of Iraq's weapons programs, and he comes back with
"Saddam's primary goal from 1991 to 2003 was to have UN sanctions lifted, while maintaining the security of the Regime. He sought to balance the need to cooperate with UN inspections... with his intention to preserve Iraq's intellectual capital for WMD..."
And, from The Washington Post:
"The 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. inspections destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capability and, for the most part, Saddam Hussein did not try to rebuild it, according to an extensive report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that contradicts nearly every prewar assertion made by top administration officials about Iraq."
(That Washington Post article sometimes prompts for registration, so NY Times and CNN have similar articles.)
(Second Note, if one searches for "Charles Duelfer report" on google, then many articles will appear, and one may have access to them from there.)
First of all,
"Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from Iraq"
What??
How do materials like these disappear and neither the United States nor Iraq has anything to say about it?
Secondly, from the above article again-
"President Bush... justified the war, in part, by saying that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was on the brink of developing a nuclear bomb that he might use against the United States or give to terrorists."
Bush then picks Charles Duelfer to launch a thorough investigation of Iraq's weapons programs, and he comes back with
"Saddam's primary goal from 1991 to 2003 was to have UN sanctions lifted, while maintaining the security of the Regime. He sought to balance the need to cooperate with UN inspections... with his intention to preserve Iraq's intellectual capital for WMD..."
And, from The Washington Post:
"The 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. inspections destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capability and, for the most part, Saddam Hussein did not try to rebuild it, according to an extensive report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that contradicts nearly every prewar assertion made by top administration officials about Iraq."
(That Washington Post article sometimes prompts for registration, so NY Times and CNN have similar articles.)
(Second Note, if one searches for "Charles Duelfer report" on google, then many articles will appear, and one may have access to them from there.)
