Iraq - Iraq's Nuclear Bomb

When the US President was a Democrat, in this case Bill Clinton, Saddam harbored terrorists and had connections to al Qaeda. More frightening, was the possibility Saddam would acquire a nuclear bomb or share it with bin Laden.

That all changed when Bush was elected. Suddenly, despite all that had been said and written before, the Democrats claim there were no terrorists in Iraq before we liberated it, no connection to al Qaeda and Saddam never had any WMD's.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, the internet has a long memory.

Yesterday I posted an ABC News audio clip wherein ABC News detailed in depth Saddam's harboring of some of the worlds worst terrorists and his connections to al Qaeda.

The New York Times, mouthpiece for the Democratic party, changed its tune as well when Bush was elected. But here is what the grey lady had to say on April 26, 1993 when Clinton was in office.

Soon, possibly this week, the U.N. will report that its inspectors in Iraq have found yet another cache of strategic equipment for making nuclear weapons. Their chief inspector at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Maurizio Zifferero, should be embarrassed. He announced in September that President Saddam Hussein's atomic weapons program was "neutralized" and "at zero." He even said that Iraq had "decided at the higher political level to stop these activities."

Which explains why Saddam tried to bribe UN officials with $2 million.

Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction.

Rolf Ekeus, the Swede who led the UN's efforts to track down the weapons from 1991 to 1997, said that the offer came from Tariq Aziz, Saddam's foreign minister and deputy.

Now, ask yourself, if Saddam did not have WMD's, why the need to bribe the chief UN weapons inspector?

Under the spotlight and pressure, Saddam probably couldn't complete the bomb himself, but as the BBC let slip, he almost bought a ready made nuclear bomb.

A new BBC miniseries has a bombshell revelation, in every sense of the term: shortly before the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein came "within a whisker" of purchasing a complete, off-the-shelf nuclear device from Abdul Qadeer Khan's Islamic nuclear black market.

The BBC show was about Libya but they let slip the part about Saddam and the nuclear bomb.

There's no transcript online, but you can listen to the audio here: Dirty Wars.

Iraq's attempt to buy a nuclear weapon is mentioned at about 18 mins into the recording. Note: you need Real Player.
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