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>Senator Bond: > This morning I watched part of your dialogue with >Andrea Mitchell, and you were criticizing the use of >an infantile rhyme about the Iraq War and President >Bush. > >The selling point for President Bush's desired war >authorization was encapsulated by his use of "mushroom >cloud" hyperbole, the inference to be drawn being that >Saddam had reconstituted his nuclear weapons R&D >capability and thus presented an existential threat to >the US proper. > >Aside from the fact that weapons inspectors found no >such program in Iraq, there is this fact that the US >had and still has, overhead national IMINT assets >whose capabilities are available in the open >literature and on the Web. The physical complex >required to separate uranium isotopes (as exist in >Niger's infamous yellow cake) is huge and readily >detectable by said national assets. > >Apparently, the members of the Senate and House >intelligence committees knew nothing about those >assets, or if they were knowledgeable, were rebuffed >by the Bush White House if they asked to see imagery >corroborating the (absurd) claim that Saddam had >reconstituted or was reconstituting, his mythical >nuclear weapons program. > >It appears that the WMD threat was a hoax concocted by >the Bush White House with assistance in the media by a >cabal of neo-con "experts" to stampede a gullible >Congress to fund a war that need never have been >fought.

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