When Will Bush and Congressional Republicans Apologize for Spilling Nuclear Secrets?
Last week, Kerry misspoke and unintentionally said something that could be interpreted as a slight on the soldiers. After protesting that his intent was clearly and provably different, within a day or two, he apologized to the soldiers and the country, yet the media still makes a huge deal out of this.
Now it seems that the Bush White House, in a political election-year effort to make the Iraq War seem legitimate, released documents on the Internet from around the first Gulf War when Iraq was actually engaged in nuclear research, as well as more recent documents given to the U.N. in 2002 to ensure that Iraq was not building an atomic bomb then. The documents were not so relevant to Bush’s war as they were to the first war; it is a common Bush tactic to try to confuse the two, as Hussein was a much more legitimate target back then.
The problem? The new documents publicly released on the Internet contain information on how to build a nuclear weapon.
According to the New York Times article:
The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.
These documents contained sections in the clear which had actually been redacted when given to the U.N.!
One can be assured that these documents have been downloaded by any number of rogue nations, aspiring nuclear dictators, and terrorist groups, putting them that much closer to developing an atomic weapon.
And yet, this story is not stirring the media nearly as much as the bogus Kerry non-story.
Nevertheless, we have the president making public dangerous nuclear secrets, at the urging of Republicans in Congress. Yes, it was an error, but then so was Kerry’s statement; the difference is that Kerry’s statement only bruised some feelings, and then only because the president, the GOP, and the media whipped up a frenzy about it.
So, when are President Bush and the Republicans in Congress going to apologize to the whole world for putting it into mortal danger?
I don’t see Wolf Blitzer asking that question three dozen times a day.
“Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.”
That’s in the New York Times article. I can’t tell whether they mean during the first Gulf War or in 2002, because the previous sentence refers to both. But it really doesn’t matter when Saddam had the nuclear program. The government and other intelligence worked under the knowledge that Hussein’s aim was to use whatever he had to obtain these weapons. If he had the means to make a nuke within a year in 1990, he could still have done so a dozen years later. According to one of his generals (Sada, who wrote a book on this subject) he was every bit a threat just as President Bush said. Look, here’s the thing. Never mind when Saddam was first known to have the capabilities. The point is, President Bush DID NOT LIE to go to Iraq! All it is, is another piece in the puzzle that proves he did not lie. It’s not proof that I need, personally. But you other people have a long way to go in busting down the comfort barrier of denial, and you need to begin the process of learning the reality. He didn’t lie. And some of us have known it all along.
Gee whiz, how did I guess that you would glom on to that one (incorrect, no matter which time frame it referred to) line of the article and completely ignore the fact that the Bush administration seriously compromised national security?