U.N.: Iraq's Nuke Program A Mess - CBS

[Fuzz]

(CBS/AP) U.N. inspectors found Iraq's nuclear program in disarray and unlikely to be able to support an active effort to build weapons, the atomic agency chief said in a confidential report obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reiterated that his experts uncovered no signs of a nuclear weapons program before they withdrew from Iraq just before the war began in March.

"In the areas of uranium acquisition, concentration and centrifuge enrichment, extensive field investigation and document analysis revealed no evidence that Iraq had resumed such activities," ElBaradei said in the report, made available to the AP by a diplomat.

"No indication of post-1991 weaponization activities was uncovered in Iraq," he said.

The United States and Britain invaded Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein's regime was developing nuclear arms as well as chemical and biological weapons.
No weapons of mass destruction have turned up in Iraq, nor has any solid new evidence for them turned up in Washington or London.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/15/iraq/main573255.shtml

[Ohio Dem]

1. Didn't you hear? That's not why we went in to Iraq anymore.

Now, it's all about freeing the Iraqi people.

[Fuzz]

3. Oh yeah! I keep forgetting.

It's kind of hard to keep track with the administration changing their spin all the time. I've got to start writing this stuff down!

:eyes: :crazy: :wtf:

[ima_sinnic]

2. sigh--how many more times do we need to hear proof

that BushCo's war is a fraud and an unspeakable outrage? After a few hundred more stories like this in the mainstream media, will the sheeple finally wake up?? Do they care??

[freepotter]

4. CBS "Headlie" is disengenous - still says Iraq had a program

CBS just can't give up the lie. "U.N.: Iraq's Nuke Program a Mess" which is worded so as to give the impression that the Iraqis had a program that was a mess, but never the less, a program when ElBaradei as saying that there was no evidence of a program. To eventually tell that truth in an article just isn't good enough. The headline should have given a more accurate synopsis of the truth of the article such as "No Evidence of Iraqi Nuclear Program Found by Inspectors" for those folks who glance at headlines and maybe read a couple of sentences. Wonder if it will be on their evening national broadcast.

[newyawker99]

6. Hi freepotter!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Fuzz]

5. How about this at the end of the article

"It was always a "fragile assumption" to expect Iraq to provide a highly detailed, fully consistent and well-documented account of all its weapons work, said U.S. defense analyst Carl Conetta. No military can do that, he wrote in a report recapping the Iraq inspections.

A U.S. audit last year, for example, found the Pentagon had lost track of more than 1 million chemical-biological protective suits, said Conetta, of the Project on Defense Alternatives, a private think tank.

In perhaps the most striking example, U.S. government auditors found in 1994 that almost three tons of plutonium, enough for hundreds of nuclear bombs, had "vanished" from U.S. stocks, because of discrepancies between "book inventory" and "physical inventory." "


Comforting, ain't it?