We lied to Saddam about nuke development, ex-bombmakers say

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-01-iraq-arms_x.htm

Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut the operation down for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say.

Before that first Gulf War, the chief of the weapons program resorted to "blatant exaggeration" in telling Iraq's president how much bomb material was being produced, key scientist Imad Khadduri writes in a new book.

Other leading physicists, in Baghdad interviews, said the hope for an Iraqi atomic bomb was never realistic. "It was all like building sand castles," said Abdel Mehdi Talib, Baghdad University's dean of sciences.

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Seven months after a U.S.-British invasion toppled Saddam's Baath Party government, Iraqi scientists have grown more vocal in countering Bush administration claims, used to justify the war, that Baghdad had "reconstituted" nuclear weapons development, and that it once was a mere six months from making a bomb.

At best, Khadduri writes, it would have taken Iraq several years to build a nuclear weapon if the 1991 war and subsequent U.N. inspections had not intervened.

[dArKeR]

1. I don't believe one word of, 'they lied to Saddam'. And every Media Whore

backs me up on that! Right? The reason for the war was because Saddam was a psychotic butcher
who'd kill anyone for any reason. (Sons included). Thus USA Today is telling me that these scientists
were lying BIG TIME to Saddam and cared nothing about how Saddam would butcher them and all of
their family members?

OK, I'm ready to stop thinking and become a Repuke Voter.

[54anickel]

2. Another lie bites the dust. All that's left to justify this war is SH was

an evil, evil man.
Geez.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. And how soon

will other "evil men" be used as a reason for war?