on the Hannity radio show
[Fezzy's voice]Oww no.[/Fezzy's voice]
the world was blind to the covert nuclear weapons dev. program that had reconstituted after the Israeli attack that crippled it.
I would'nt say the world was blind to it. It was Europe and the US that were assisting Iraq with its WMD programs all the way up to 1990, (more common explaination is that we were consciously allowing ourselves to be duped into helping with these programs, while our companies were soaking up the oil dollars). France and Germany were especially involved in Iraq's nuclear programs, while the US was involved with Iraq's chem/bio programs, conventional weapons systems and military intelligence in the Iran/Iraq war. The IAEA was only as able to discover the extent of these programs as the major powers wanted them to be. The fact is that even US intelligence was unaware of the extent of Iraq's nuclear program at the time of the Gulf War. It was only when the world turned against Saddam's regime and decided to send in the inspectors that US intelligence learned, (from the UN inspectors), the extent of what it did not know. Again, I want to emphasize that the IAEA, UNSCOM and UNMOVIC are not competitors with US intelligence agencies. The UN organizations are a product of the will and abilities of the major powers, especially the permanent Security Council members the US, Britain, France, Russia and China. When these countries are more interested in arming a country like Iraq, then the IAEA cannot be expected to stop it. When they want their weapons back, then they turn to the IAEA. At the same time, you will find people who will go on talk shows and blame the IAEA for not stopping Iraq to build these weapons, which is absurd. I'm going to guess that it was Paul Leventhal, Steven Dolley, Patrick Clausen, or Barton Gellman, that was on the show trying to blame the IAEA. They are the usual suspects who are out in the media spinning for war. These are smart guys, who know more than I do, but they have alterior motives, which is to undermine inspections to build support for war as the only option. The reason I give them no credibility is there are absurdities, like the IAEA being responsible for Iraq's weapons programs, that are built into their models of the Iraq situation that are put out there for the general public, but are obvious fallacies to anyone who works on the issue. (Patrick Clausen once tried to convince me and a group of GWU students that Israel didn't have nuclear weapons). You don't have to take my word for it, but I think these guys are liars and scumbags. I'm just a scumbag and a pervert. But that don't make me a bad person.
<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/nuke-when.htm" target="_blank">Early Western Assessments - What Did We Know and When Did We Know It?</a>
I LOVE IRAQ! GO SADDAM!
WHAT A GREAT GUY!
You're the only one Holmes
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It was a joke goddammit!