Quick -- place your bets as to how many BTs are going to cream themselves over the following:
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
Note the operative phrase "before the 1991 Persian Gulf war," which will, naturally, be ignored in its entirety so that that NYT article can be used as unimpeachable proof that Saddam really did have nuclear ambitions and was this close to having The Bomb. You know it's coming.
P.S. Atrios provides the foreshadowing. Can Canada's mentally-defective wanks be far behind?
AND THEY'RE OFF! Canada's Crazy-Assed Racist Redneck™ is first out of the gate. Can the Premature eJankulator be far behind?
P.S. Kate's commenters are, of course, a total scream. You can smell the infantile aroma of "I told you so" wafting all the way from Saskatchewan.
7 comments:
I think Hatie Katie is already on the disinformation bandwagon. I think she missed the little fact that these were documents pre-1991
We on the left are too bigoted and close-minded to admit that Saddam kept the records from earlier programs. Even though everyone has known this for over a decade.
We on the left are foolish to imagine posting these equations would have any effect at all on Iran's nuclear ambitions. Supposedly they got everything from North Korea, China, and US ally Pakistan, so what's the worry?
I can't really grasp the full extent of their stupidity.
I haven't gone back there yet to view the reaction to the comment I left,... one lets go see shall we,.. should be worth a yuck or two. ;-)
god are they ever thick over there. I should call up my friend works for IAEA and the Canadian governement for her insight. Last time I talked to her and said Iraq and Nukes in the same sentence she spewded rum and coke out her nose. Ya the pre-war intelligence on Iraq's nuclear abilities was that big of joke.
I noticed that KKKate has deleted both mine and zorpheous's comments.
That's one way to keep insulated from reality.
Stupid liars and cowards. No point in debating with people who aren't honest.
Lo and behold! I still had it ready for "Ctrl V":
"Another bit of overlooked information - Congress approved the release of the documents, not the administration."
Oh. Okay. Let's see:
"It said the Bush administration started the site under pressure from congressional Republicans who hoped to use the Internet to find new evidence of dangers posed by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "
"National intelligence director John Negroponte resisted setting up the Web site, the Times said, but President George W. Bush approved the move after congressional Republicans proposed a bill to require the documents' release."
SanDiegoTimes
Yes, thank you bush II. You have discovered what everyone already knew over a decade ago. That Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Yes. We knew that already.
Do you understand? We knew this already.
And while it's convenient to speculate that Iran might be getting technical assistance from Pakistan, China, and North Korea, it's also worrisome that the US government is posting detailed informaiton on how to build a nuclear warhead on websites open to anyone.
"The New York Times said the documents provided information on building nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.
'For the U.S. to toss a match into this flammable area is very irresponsible,' A. Bryan Siebert, a former official at the U.S. Energy Department, which runs the country's nuclear arms programme, told the paper. "
So what we've really learned here is that the Republicans in the Executive AND the Legislative branches are idiots.
But then again, we knew that already as well.
The Republicans fucked up, shit happens.
btw: The line from my earlier post:
"Another bit of overlooked information - Congress approved the release of the documents, not the administration."
That had come from KKKate, as she vainly tried to return her whole "game, set, match" argument back on track, after zorpheous had knocked it off.
Trying to take the heat off of her precious, alcholic, knuckle-dragging, incompetent hero, who it was now obvious (even to her) had fucked-up yet again.
But the fact that she deleted the posts that exposed her as an imbecile is really rich in light of the earlier crowing on that comments page about how the Left will refuse to face facts, and apologize for being wrong, because we're lying bigots.
You know, they said the same things when Santorum and that other shithead started roaring about a couple of old missles with inert gases or something in them, ... that they'd found the WMDs.
The Pentagon was forced to say that those rockets had been known about for years and were of no consequence.
But we on the Left were the shameless liars, refusing to apologize.
Then this bit in the NYT and we're shameless liars again.
Then a few people comment (and prove) that they're wrong (murderously, horribly wrong ... wayne) yet again, and she deletes it.
Stupid lying coward.
I noticed one talented moron there said something like: "If you lefties are so blah-zay about N. Korea and Iran getting nukes, why are you so obsessed that Iran might have gotten help from this website?"
I'll explain to the shit-head here, since KKKate might delete it on her own site of cowardice and deliberate ignorance:
Mr. Shithead, ... it's you and the bush II regime that claim to be so concerned over the proliferation of WMDs. And it's the bush II regime that made the detailed knowledge of Iraq's pre-1991 nuclear program publicly available.
We're just pointing out the stupidity of that for you.
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