Jay covers the intelligence level of the Senate Intelligence Committee, apparently there was wrong info on the WMD. Saddam didn’t have any WMD. Might mention, according to the Post:
… almost two tons of low-enriched uranium and about 1,000 radioactive samples used for research had been removed from Iraq’s Tuwaitha Nuclear Center and brought to the United States for security reasons.
Two tons, that’s a lot, wonder how many dirty bombs could have been made by that. Oh, but Iraq has no WMD. We were wrong on that count.
The airlift of the radioactive materials was completed June 23, Abraham said in a statement, “to keep potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists.” Less sensitive radiological materials — used for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes — were left in Iraq, according to a Department of Energy statement.
So, said two tons of uranium was potentially dangerous, looks like a WMD, works like a WMD, must be a WMD especially since Tuwaitha had been the center of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program, the one they now say he didn’t have, flawed intelligence and all.
In April 2003, just days after the statue of Hussein in Baghdad was pulled down, a U.S. Marine engineering company took a close look at Tuwaitha, which is 30 miles south of Baghdad. There they found guards had abandoned their posts and looters were roaming the giant facility. At one storage building, which later was found to hold radioactive samples used in research, the radiation levels were too high to enter safely, although the entrance door stood wide open.
Wonder how much they got? Wonder if the looters are still alive considering the radiation levels? Wonder who still has some of this uranium? Wonder if we will find out in some very unpleasant way? Wonder if there is any intelligence left in the Senate?
