[DRB]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15540188/

The nation’s top intelligence official took down a government Web site with captured Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi documents, after questions were raised whether it provided too much information about making atomic bombs.

Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that outside experts, including the director of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, informed the Bush administration that it might have inadvertently publicized how-to-manuals for making nuclear bombs.

A diplomat affiliated with the IAEA said its inspectors were “shocked by the explicitness of the content” on the Web site and that a senior agency official conveyed the concerns to U.S. diplomats in Vienna, where the agency is based.

Pressed by Republican members of Congress, Negroponte’s office last March ordered the unprecedented release of millions of pages of Iraqi documents, most of them in Arabic, collected by the U.S. government over more than a decade.

Intelligence officials had objected at the time — but were overruled by President Bush.

 

[ohio]

What do you expect? When has Bush ever trusted intelligence officials for his facts?

 

[Slugman]

bwahahaha!

Wow - if the GOP were any more inept right now, we'd have to call them democrats.

 

[Westy]

I know how to make an atomic burrito. Not exactly rocket science but the end affect is similar.

 

[$tinkle]

uhhh...nobody else notices what this means? saddam did indeed have an active nuke program, albeit in its infancy.

this would unambiguously make it a WMD program. not the vat of anthrax sean hannity had hoped for, but you go to war with the lies you have.

 

[Changleen]

uhhh...nobody else notices what this means? saddam did indeed have an active nuke program, albeit in its infancy.

this would unambiguously make it a WMD program. not the vat of anthrax sean hannity had hoped for, but you go to war with the lies you have.

So everyone who D/L those pages now has an active WMD programme?

 

[Silver]

uhhh...nobody else notices what this means? saddam did indeed have an active nuke program, albeit in its infancy.

this would unambiguously make it a WMD program. not the vat of anthrax sean hannity had hoped for, but you go to war with the lies you have.

Theoretically speaking, I used to know (courtesy of Chemistry 161/163) how to make LSD.

That didn't seem to warrant tanks outside my parent's house at the time...what a stupid overblown story. It's not like the Iranians don't have this info. Pakistan already built a bomb, and their main scientist talks about it like Ted Haggard after a kilo of meth...

 

[$tinkle]

So everyone who D/L those pages now has an active WMD programme?

more on this at nytimes, where there is expressed concern from the gray lady to the gub'ment. maybe she's finally being responsible w/ sensitive info? or maybe they just got scooped?

but yeah, if the unredacted pages were d/l'ed, it would be irresponsible of us, and unlucky for the d/l'ing party, who would draw attention (as you imply)

 

[Reactor]

Meh,

Bombs are easy, good bombs are hard, as is working with uranium hexafloride .

Still, Yet another sign Bush and most of the republicians are idiots.

 

[$tinkle]

Still, Yet another sign Bush and most of the republicians are idiots.

hard to argue with that logic.

now then, any ideas why more "idiots" than democrats keep getting re-elected year-after-year for the past decade?

you have until tuesday night to wrap this up & end years of public co-dependency.

 

[MMike]

I would called this thread "Pass da nukey from de left hand side"

 

[Reactor]

hard to argue with that logic.

now then, any ideas why more "idiots" than democrats keep getting re-elected year-after-year for the past decade?

you have until tuesday night to wrap this up & end years of public co-dependency.

Greed. The republicans duplicitous and play off man's base instincts. They promise fiscal responsibility, but give out tax cuts which make the deficit worse. They promise middle class tax cuts, but actually deliver tax cuts wich deliver 90% of the cut to the 1% richest people, but when most people get the $600 check in thier mail bix, they're hooked. Then they blame the democrats for raising taxes, to balance the budget. In short they have a great PR machine, but the dems are learning.

Republicians have also played off of the fear and loathing of the religious right, and used issues like abortion to polarize voters. Meanwhile they actually oppose programs that would reduce the abortion rate without making abortion illegal. If abortion became illegal, it would kill the republician party.

About 20 years ago the republicians realized that if they control the state houses, they controlled redistricting. Redistricting controlls federal districts. They focused a lot of effort and money on winning local elections. They won a lot of local elections and in the process get to redistrict a lot of districts. In a lot of states that have a nearly even split of republicians and democrats most of the federal posts go to republicians because of gerrymandered districts.