{"id":127,"date":"2003-06-10T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T23:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=127"},"modified":"2003-06-10T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T23:10:17","slug":"wmds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/wmds.html","title":{"rendered":"WMDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Stanley Kurtz points out, not only did Iraq have WMDs, the New York Times <\/i>has reported on them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The United States has discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I know this because I read it on the front page of the very liberal New York Times<\/i>. Of course, the Times was only trying to hurt the administration. In the rush to Baghdad during the war, our troops bypassed and failed to secure one of Saddam’s key nuclear facilities. That facility was looted by local villagers, who ransacked vaults and warehouses looking for anything of value. Many of the villagers took home radioactive barrels, and are now suffering from radiation poisoning. According to the Times, the looted nuclear facility, “contained ample radioactive poisons that could be used to manufacture an inestimable quantity of so-called dirty bombs.”
\nSo in the course of trying to embarrass the administration, the Times <\/i>has inadvertently raised a very important point in the administration’s defense. Saddam’s nuclear-weapons program contained sufficient material to pose a serious threat to the United States. In the hands of terrorists, nuclear dirty bombs supplied by Saddam could have rendered landmarks and key sites in American cities uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
\nAnd why did Saddam have a nuclear facility in the first place? It was, of course, part of his effort to produce a nuclear bomb. In fact, the nuclear site reported on by the Times was connected to the facility bombed years before by the Israelis, who had become convinced that Saddam was attempting to build a nuclear weapon. Thank goodness the Israelis acted. Thank goodness we did too.<\/p>\n

And let’s not forget (as, I’ll confess, I have) that justification for the Iraq War was not just what Saddam currently had, but what he was capable and willing of producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Stanley Kurtz points out, not only did Iraq have WMDs, the New York Times has reported on them. 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