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November 03, 2006

NYT: Saddam Was One Year Away From Having An Atomic Bomb

Topics: Iraq

In what can only be viewed as an NYT version of a "November surprise," against the Bush administration, the New York Times has inadvertently delivered a stunning November Surprise to the Democrats.

After three years of spinning myths about no WMDs in Iraq, it turns out that Saddam Hussein's regime was perhaps only a year away from developing nuclear weapons at the time of the US invasion. Bush was right and the Democratic spin machine had it all wrong.

[...] Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990's and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein's scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.

As Bluto puts it at Jawa Report, "If Hussein, who used chemical weapons against his own citizens, had remained in power he could have had a nuclear weapon three years ago. The New York Times has just destroyed three years of myth-making by the Democrats."

Did the New York Times just put on the front page that IRAQ HAD A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM AND WAS PLOTTING TO BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB?

Apparently, the Bush Derangement Syndrome at the NY Times has reached such yelpingly mad levels that the Times its inevitable breakdown is nigh.

Read all of this as new information for the zany Left - old information for neocons. Yet, even now, the Left still won't get it and still won't admit to being wrong. They'll simply spin it according to their own world view.

Posted by Richard at November 3, 2006 10:32 AM

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NY Times: Saddam Close to Building Atomic Bomb

By Jim Kouri, 11/3/2006 1:32:59 PM

In an effort to hurt Republicans on November 7, the New York Times published a story accusing the Bush Administration of posting Iraqi documents that suggest Saddam Hussein's Iraq was close to building an atomic bomb.

Congressional Republicans had urged the Bush White House to post on a government website many of the documents discovered in Iraq following the 2003 invasion. According to the Times, some of the documents posted could help Iran or other countries build a nuclear weapon.

"Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for UN inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Some experts said at the time preceding the invasion that Hussein's scientists were on the verge of building an atomic bomb, possibly being as little as a year away; other experts disputed that," said the Friday edition of the Times.

"European diplomats said this week that some of those nuclear documents on the Web site were identical to the ones presented to the UN Security Council in late 2002, as the U.S. prepared to invade Iraq. But unlike those on the Web site, the papers given to the Security Council had been extensively edited, to remove sensitive information on unconventional arms."

Former intelligence officer and NYPD detective Sydney Francis says that the New York Times is attempting to have it both ways.

"They say that Saddam wasn't developing nuclear weapons, but then they say Saddam possessed documents that could help someone create a nuclear bomb," says Francis.

The New York Times article falls short of admitting that Iraq was close to building a nuclear bomb. Walking a tightrope, the Times attempts to nail Bush as providing Iran and other countries a "road map" to building an atom bomb on the Iraqi documents website, and at the same time claims Saddam could not have built a bomb with those very same documents.

"The Times is becoming more and more partisan with each passing day. They want to say, 'President Bush allowed sensitive documents to be posted for all to see which could help Iran create a nuclear bomb, but those sensitive Iraqi documents could not have helped Iraq build a nuclear bomb,'" said Francis.

"But analyzing their story indicates a strong possibility that Iraq was on the verge of building an atomic bomb," he said.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri's own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

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November 03, 2006