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Sep 13, 2005, 12:26:11 PM9/13/05

AntiWar
September 13, 2005

WMD Postmortem

Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran

Drawing upon the findings of the (a) Iraq Survey Group, (b) U.S. and British official
investigations, (c) contemporary Iraqi official documents, and (d) personal memoirs
of UN officials and others, Associated Press reporter "Charles Hanley" has
constructed a highly regarded postmortem of Saddam's nonexistent "weapons of mass
destruction" threat to us.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-09-02-WMD-indepth_x.htm

Charles Hanley begins his postmortem – appropriately enough – in August 1995.

General Hussein Kamel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Kamel), director of
Saddam's nuke and chem-bio weapons programs (and also Saddam's son-in-law), had
defected to Jordan, and was extensively "debriefed" by UN officials, the CIA, and the
Brit MI6.

General Kamel (http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/inspections/images/kamel.jpg)
revealed that Iraq – at his direction – had destroyed all chemical and biological
agents and weapons, including the missiles to deliver them, in 1991.
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/hk.pdf

Upon entering Iraq after the second Persian Gulf War (1991), the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) had discovered and destroyed what remained of the unsuccessful
Iraqi nuke program (which was provided to Saddam by West in the 1980's to
mass-slaughter the Iranians).

Quoth General Kamel, of Iraq's WMD programs, "nothing remained".

What General Kamel revealed was kept secret from Saddam – and from us peons – but was
shared with high-level U.S. and Brit officials.

By 1998, UN inspectors were able to verify General Kamel's claims in every detail.
Hence, the Security Council was informed that Saddam was substantively disarmed and
that the "sanctions" imposed on Iraq in 1991 could be lifted.

President Clinton vetoed it, claiming he had intelligence there were WMD stockpiles
hidden beneath Saddam's palaces. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that
even if Saddam had been disarmed, the U.S. would never allow the sanctions to be
lifted so long as Saddam was in power.

So U.S. launched "Operation Desert Fox"; a four-day extensive bombing campaign of
Saddam's palaces in Baghdad, obviously meant to remove Saddam.

Understandably, when U.S. failed, Saddam wouldn't let UN inspectors back into Iraq.

We now know that President Bush came into office also looking for an excuse to remove
Saddam. He went to Congress in September 2002, seeking "specific statutory
authorization" to resume the second Persian Gulf War, basing his case on the
"National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Programs", hurriedly prepared by Director of Central Intelligence "George Tenet" for
Bush in the summer of 2002.

But NIE to the contrary, Bush and various Congressional leaders knew that, as of
1999, Saddam had no WMD programs and was not a threat to the U.S.

Of course, they still didn't let us peons in on that.

We now know that by the summer of 2002 British Prime Minister Tony Bliar had agreed
to support Bush's preemptive war of aggression against Iraq, but insisted that Bush
get the Security Council to demand that Saddam let the UN inspectors back into Iraq
to conduct totally intrusive inspections. Tony Bliar was confident that Saddam would
refuse and Bush-Bliar would then have their "casus belli" (an event used to justify
starting a war).

To their surprise, Saddam readily agreed to every Security Council demand. UN
inspectors returned to Iraq in November 2002.

Then, in February 2003, Newsweek magazine – and also Sherrie Gossett of
WorldNetDaily – published excerpts from the General Kamel debriefing documents, kept
secret since 1995.

Finally, with Bush's preemptive invasion already secretly underway, the rest of us
peons found out what (a) Bush-Bliar, (b) CIA-MI6, and (c) U.S. Congress and British
Parliament had known since at least 1998 – Saddam had destroyed all his weapons of
mass destruction way back in 1991 (which was given to Iraq by the West in the 1980's
to slaughter Iranians).

So Bush-Cheney-Rice-Powell launched a frantic last minute media blitz to convince us
Saddam had been resurrecting his WMD programs while the UN inspectors had been
absent.

But, alas, UN Monitoring and Verification Commission Chairman Hans Blix
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix) and IAEA Director-General ElBaradei were
already reporting each month to the Security Council that they could find no
indication that Saddam had made any attempt to reconstruct his WMD programs since
1991, much less 1998.

What's a poor bunch of naked aggressors – and their "media sycophants" – to do?

Brazen it out!

Consequently, according to the "determination" President Bush sent to Congress – as
required – on March 19, 2003, we had to launch a preemptive invasion because Iraq
posed a continuing threat to the national security of the United States by
"continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons
capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and
harboring terrorist organizations".

Of course, Bush-Cheney-Rice-Bliar couldn't admit they had known about what General
Kamel had revealed back in 1995. They had to discredit Blix and ElBaradei.

The final report of the Iraq Survey Group concluded that Saddam – as General Kamel
and Hans Blix and ElBaradei maintained – had no WMD any longer and posed no threat to
anyone anymore.

A week after that report was filed, Bush was still telling all us peons that Saddam
did.

* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for
national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy
Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as
legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon,
R-Okla. --ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate
Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a
nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National Laboratory
(http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico. http://www.antiwar.com/prather

Under the NPT, Iran has every right to process uranium into reactor fuel. But what's
OK for other countries is forbidden to Iran, according to the West. For Iran, the bar
keeps being raised, and until the weekend Iran had jumped every time.

Iran knocks Europe out
By Pepe Escobar
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/497a81cb3c315c65?hl=en

UN opens a Pandora's Box of "Iran exceptionalism"
Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/24bfe5a318d9a222?hl=en

There is Nothing to refer to UN Security Council
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/76824d9387903d4a?hl=en

No wonder the West is so mad at Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/83e63797f1a1af3b?hl=en

Bolton in a China Shop
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9927bb4f65924e34?hl=en

JEW media sycophants & 36% HEU - IRAN told the truth, yet JEW keeps lying
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f90a6eef507f10a0?hl=en

Past Arguments Don't Square With Current Iran Policy
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f53d3a05bc5403c1?hl=en

The fuel behind Iran's nuclear drive
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2fcf81313deb4ae0?hl=en

The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d0dcf76abbaafb1?hl=en

NO Nuclear double standards
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8e41f4a8a1a3e04c?hl=en

Backlash Builds Against Cheney's 'Guns of August'
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8286b2b389247d0a?hl=en

An offer Iran MUST refuse
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/743b96400831f8a1?hl=en

Zero Tolerance
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1641ae424fde5b89?hl=en

Sino-Russian Guarantees?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bd8f5389ab0e8956?hl=en

More neo-crazy media sycophant LIES about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d3fe84a9b64d20bc?hl=en

What The Neo-Crazies Knew
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b45fabf57726a03?hl=en

EU vs. Iran - Who's Right?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbce70a3093360fb?hl=en

Iran should refer U.S. to Security Council for violating UNSCR-984
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d54ef8e41b971bf?hl=en

Castration of NPT - U.S. instantly tore up NPT for India, so why should Iran obey a
torn up agreement!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c234f4a148cd298?hl=en

U.S. ripped NPT into pieces; Iran must withdraw from this annulled treaty
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fbf55e939908b2c2?hl=en

U.S. proliferation rhetoric and reality
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7d8c268ee51c07be?hl=en

Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1ca916601b7a7bc8?hl=en

Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/245f6081b4e3d019?hl=en

A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b7968f98173938d?hl=en

Inalienable right without discrimination
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5012a673328fa044?hl=en

U.S. doesn't want to disarm even though it promised to do so
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c0b86cad11cb9413?hl=en

UN Referral – Not
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bddc928154c8c96a?hl=en

What Iranian obligations? What breaches? America's lies, lies, lies...
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9535c4a90df98471?hl=en

Memo to slimy senators
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7065ffd57b51a959?hl=en

U.S. promised in 2000, to get rid of it's nukes!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1e23bafecdac9e82?hl=en

U.S. has violated Iran's NPT rights!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/02f1f48fafcac2b6?hl=en

Iran's diplomatic masterpiece
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f532352654efee1d?hl=en

Bush to sabotage NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6386adef83860d3e?hl=en

West's repeated violations of "Article IV & I" against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0123ceb12dd47321?hl=en

Israel guns for Iran - Why?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c0274540f3957b7?hl=en

U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2abab5a7b8bce4c5?hl=en

NTP for dummies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f317bb918ca244da?hl=en

CNN's Wolf Blitzer & David Albright: Jews global campaign against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/44fcd2a53218eb52?hl=en

The Real Threat From John Bolton
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/16fb61c3cca32703?hl=en

81-mm smoking rockets
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fb2c580ba00d79a6?hl=en

U.S. plans to destroy NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/760abaff1d8ac7c2?hl=en

Nuts to Bush
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de936f823b4dfb11?hl=en

Iran's logic proven correct to the entire World
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a5798de678dad2a9?hl=en

Sandbagging the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/238000abe8fe032e?hl=en

What Noncompliance?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/32f537772749ecc2?hl=en

Sandbagging the EU
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bb437d1ee00ad1e9?hl=en

Bye-Bye, NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb8e9f617d0e0867?hl=en

Jew tells Bush to lie about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c96849f55f92353e?hl=en

Targeting Non-existent Nukes?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e25e86754767e3ef?hl=en

Blindly Backing Israel Against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ca49370dcc1f41a4?hl=en

Condi Desperate to Stop EU-China-Iran Chain Reaction
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/26e6a24b43339654?hl=en

The Impossible Dream in the State of the Union Address
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/74938ea7958d0764?hl=en

Targeting Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dbb46af7ff3f0b66?hl=en

Bay of Pigs part 2, CIA-Israeli-MEK
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b58f2a1d8b2290ff?hl=en

Threatening Iran - despite the evidence
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ce6e09919da68cbb?hl=en

Virtual Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c245e595ad17ae57?hl=en

Iran's having the capability to enrich uranium is not even tantamount to having the
capability to produce the essentially pure uranium-235 required to make a nuke
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/303c3ca53b67c0a7?hl=en

Dangerous Delusions About Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/42c57f2ae0cdb3b0?hl=en

Thwarting the Neo-Crazies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66c79d721fd588d4?hl=en

Trashing the IAEA Again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f8c610f6cc9e1fda?hl=en

U.S. keeps lying about Iran again & again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9f480b192bd425e?hl=en

Iran's Stealthy Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e47cc87d2b268368?hl=en

Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f7ebc6f4bed9d13a?hl=en

Iran Plays by the Rules - No Fair!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/25be300601cc8984?hl=en

Nuclear Bait and Switch
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a0dc80ca3b8e98f?hl=en

The myth of Iranian nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf78503a661673e9?hl=en

North Korea has what Iraq didn't
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/56f613221080276e?hl=en

Iran has absolute right to enrich uranium
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8ac2dc599976ba?hl=en

Iran is in full compliance with NPT & IAEA
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/737b74e86ba897cb?hl=en