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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Actually, we DID just yell at Syria... what are the sources of YOUR intelligence? :) It should be noted that a resolution to support the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was actually passed by Congress way back in 1998. http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d105/d105laws.html go here and navigate to public law 105-338. It's a law. We have to obey it. [URL=http://www.nci.org]www.nci.org[/URL] Here's what the Nuclear Control Institute has to say about it... And here's what the Center for Nonproliferation Studies has to say... http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/scud_info/scud_info_refs/n41en172/iraq.htm Not to mention a defecting Iraqi scientist... [QUOTE]Iraq close to building nukes - defector By Janine Zacharia WASHINGTON (June 21) - Iraq has all the basic components necessary for a nuclear bomb, but it is unclear whether it has acquired the fissile material to power it, the former head of Iraq's nuclear weapons program said yesterday. Describing Iraq's nuclear weapons program as "more or less complete," Dr. Khidhir Hamza, who defected from Iraq in 1994, told the American Enterprise Institute that no sanctions or inspectors could thwart the well-concealed Iraqi program. "The basic bomb components are there in Iraq. The casting is there. One of the casting furnaces was taken out but another one was built... The fuse components are there. Explosives are there. And the initiator for the nuclear reaction is there. So bomb-wise, Iraq is finished. It has the full technology to make a nuclear bomb," Hamza said. Hamza said he understood that Iraq now has a much better bomb design than the one he was involved in producing, "but the bottleneck remains the supply of fissile material." If Iraq has managed to purchase such nuclear-ready material, he said, "Iraq has a nuclear weapon by now. If it [has] not, it will have within a short time a nuclear weapon. I expect, another year." Citing German intelligence estimates, Hamza said Iraq is said to have 1.3 tons of low-enriched uranium and 12 tons of natural uranium, which in their processed form would supply enough material for roughly six bombs. Now, he said, scientists are focused on adapting the bombs to missiles that can transport them. With continued sanctions making smuggling difficult, Hamza speculated that Iraq is also pursuing a program to develop the technology to produce its own fissile material primarily through what is known as "diffusion." "Iraq has the material right now, has the technology right now, to go into uranium enrichment if it wants," he said. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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