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Nuclear plans and components found in Iraq

I repent, Wise One. Please accept my one thousand sorries, Great Jedi.

I just hope these "components" do not include chemicals like dihydrodgen monoxide. Link?
 
The plot thickens.
Now that he is safe, Obeidi said he believes other scientists would come forward with other components of Iraq's weapons program.
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He says he hid them 12 years ago. What happend 12 years ago (1991)? OOH, OOH, OOH, MR. Kotter, Mr. Kotter! Desert Storm!

When US intelligence said he had a massive WMD program and we bombed the crap out of it. In 2003? Oh yes, US intelligence said that we bombed the crap out of his WMD program in 1991 and that he doesn't have anything. So now someone trots out a few pieces of an enrichment facility (which is need to enrich fuel for reactors also) that apparently was buried and forgotten for over a decade? Don't expect me to get all excited.
 
DanishDynamite said:
"The parts were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who had hidden them in his back yard under a rose bush 12 years ago..."
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I wonder if nuclear weapons components make good fertilizer?
 
Agammamon said:
He says he hid them 12 years ago. What happend 12 years ago (1991)? OOH, OOH, OOH, MR. Kotter, Mr. Kotter! Desert Storm!

When US intelligence said he had a massive WMD program and we bombed the crap out of it. In 2003? Oh yes, US intelligence said that we bombed the crap out of his WMD program in 1991 and that he doesn't have anything. So now someone trots out a few pieces of an enrichment facility (which is need to enrich fuel for reactors also) that apparently was buried and forgotten for over a decade? Don't expect me to get all excited.
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Don't get your hopes up, Agammamon. The CIA is in Iraq and is going to find out more and more about Saddam Hussein and the information it finds won't show that he wasn't all that bad.
 
JAR said:

Don't get your hopes up, Agammamon. The CIA is in Iraq and is going to find out more and more about Saddam Hussein and the information it finds won't show that he wasn't all that bad.
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Don't confuse evil with powerful.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/923752.asp?0dm=N1CTO&cp1=1

"What we discovered about the Soviet Union after the cold war was that it was every bit as evil as we had thought—indeed more so—but that it was a whole lot less powerful than we had feared. That is what we will probably discover about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq."
 
Ziggurat said:
Don't confuse evil with powerful.
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Don't worry, I didn't. The Soviet Union is evidence that a government not being as powerful as people think it is won't stop it from committing mass-murder.
 
Four hours now and TV news are already saying 'oops, it was quite old ....'.

24 hour rule, anyone? :p
 
Anyone know what this scientist has been doing for the past 12 years?

Apparently not developing WMDs, if this is the only evidence he can provide.

Just more proof that Bush lied to the world.
 
It should have been declared by Iraq. At the very least it is a dual-use item.
 
ssibal said:
It should have been declared by Iraq. At the very least it is a dual-use item.
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Yeah, it is a dual-use item with schematics for a uranium centrifuge buried with it that it is sitting upon in this photo. :eek:

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JK
 
Jedi Knight said:
Jedi was right.

Apologize, leftists.
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Twelve years old, Jedi, and no telling how long it had been out of service before then.

I think you should apologize for your red-herring-du-jour.

Your claims are getting weaker and weaker by the day. Don't you long for the days when they used to unearth barrels of medical waste?

(and the picture looks like a doorknob on top of a blueprint).
 
Am I the only one registering that the criterias defining 'smoking guns' seem to diminish? :confused:

It used to be 'nucular' weapons, but at the moment it's anything that could make a loud bang? :confused:
 
Re: Re: Nuclear plans and components found in Iraq

Tricky said:

Twelve years old, Jedi, and no telling how long it had been out of service before then.

I think you should apologize for your red-herring-du-jour.

Your claims are getting weaker and weaker by the day. Don't you long for the days when they used to unearth barrels of medical waste?

(and the picture looks like a doorknob on top of a blueprint).
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Gosh, Saddam had no WMD program, huh. :rolleyes:

JK
 
You do realise the item was buried in someone's backyard for twelve years don't you?

ssibal said:
It should have been declared by Iraq. At the very least it is a dual-use item.
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If the scientist is to be believed, the equipment was kept buried all that time on the orders of the ruling regime. To me, that does suggest that Saddam intended to keep his options open about a nuclear program. And while it was dual-use technology, the scientist who hid it (if I understand correctly) said it was destined for military purposes.

The other disturbing thing is that this was buried in a residential backyard. The inspectors all missed it, understandably. The search for illicit weapons-related items is going to be like looking for a needle in a hundred haystacks. :(
 
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