Chris V, you’re mistaken in a grand way if you think that the US was the primary supplier for Saddam. Please read up and come back

After they had been thrown out for years by Saddam, and after it was apparent that he was pulling the exact same dog and pony show as before.

“stating exactly what happened to the WMDs (the US gave him) on 12/7/2002?”

US gave Saddam no WMDs. You’ll want to look towards the Europeans for Saddam’s Bio/Chem Weapons.

And the rest of the time when he claims to know, I wonder if he’s being honest!

P.S. You have to get T-Ray on the Obama/Afghanistan thread:

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/21/obama-on-afghanistan/#comment-19955

We’re running low on moonbat gas!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,536914,00.html

I’ve lots of sources showing that Saddam was preparing and sought to restart his program, but Operation Iraqi Freedom prevented him from doing so.

Also, in re to the inspectors being kicked out 48hrs before invading, again, those were not IAEA inspectors, but UNMOVIC ones. The IAEA had already-incorrectly-declared that Iraq was not a nuclear threat.

Also, the stuff I listed about the Iranian nuclear program (bomb designs, laptop, bomb core designs, etc.,) each of those was either confirmed or directly detected and dismissed by the IAEA-including the lack of a power grid, but the massive military-like design of their enrichment facilities. Great sat pics on the web if you go to global security.org…
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anonymous, nice job. my compliments. Now for the sad news….

The AQ Khan network was infiltrated and exposed by the US/UK in 2001/2002 according to the British Butler Report and other sources. IAEA did little more than rubber stamp it after the fact.

The Iranian nuclear program was uncovered by the US/UK when the infilitrated the AQ Khan network and found that he was illegally sending nuclear program stuff to Iran. US reported it to IAEA, and IAEA started the rhetoric in 2003.

The North Korean program was discovered by US in 1993/4 and the restart was discovered by US spy planes testing the pollutants in the air off the coast of the DPRK. In both cases the IAEA was notified and effectively had no impact. DPRK has supposedly agreed to halt their program and this will be verified by US not IAEA since IAEA is POS

Back to the Iraqi nuclear program…

Dr David Kay to Sen Allard of the Sen Arm Srv Com:

ALLARD: OK, I have one other question. What can you tell us about Iraq’s efforts to restart its nuclear program in 2000 and 2001?

KAY: As best as has been determined — and this is obviously something the investigation is continuing — in 2000 they had decided that their nuclear establishment had deteriorated to such a point that it was totally useless.

KAY: They started — the main center is a center called Al Tuwaitha, which is — in fact, I think you probably flew over it. You generally do when you go around Baghdad.

It’s a large site, but the physical facilities had seriously deteriorated. They started building new buildings, renovating it, hiring some new staff and bringing them together, and they ran a few physics experiments, re-ran experiments they’d actually run in the ’80s. Fortunately, from my point of view, Operation Iraqi Freedom intervened and we don’t know how or how fast that would have gone ahead.

ALLARD: So it was definitely a threat as far as you’re concerned in 2001, 2000?

KAY: Given their history, it was certainly an emerging program that I would not have looked forward to their continuing to pursue. It was not yet up as a full nuclear production site again.
-1/28/04 Dr. David Kay testimony to Sen Arm Srv Com

Iran
- Condemned by IAEA for clandestine activities in 2003
- Subsequently cooperated more thoroughly with IAEA to expose A.Q. Khan network (see below) and signed agreement with UK, France, Germany against weaponization (2004)

Pakistani nuclear program:
- Known by IAEA prior to them “getting the bomb” (well-documented in 1997 here)
- Not subjected to IAEA safeguards due to Pakistani government’s non-participation in NPT

Iraqi nuclear program:
- IAEA verifies Hussein lied about nuclear materials (1991), updates protocols to increase oversight
- Confirmed program defunct in 2003 prior to U.S. invasion, including this nugget from the CIA: “Before its departure from Iraq, the IAEA made significant strides toward dismantling Iraq’s nuclear weapons program and unearthing the nature and scope of Iraq’s past nuclear activities. In the absence of inspections, however, most analysts assess that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear program—unraveling the IAEA’s hard-earned accomplishments.”
- Also confirmed defunct by U.S. intelligence and military efforts in 2004-2005 after U.S. invasion

A.Q. Khan network
- Suspected by U.S. intelligence in 2001-2002
- Verified by IAEA (2003) through inspections in Iran
- Further investigated by IAEA, this time with cooperation from Pakistani government, due to nuclear safeguard issues

North Korean nuclear program
- Suspected by IAEA, but undocumented due to lack of NK cooperation
- NK withdraws from NPT (2003), removing any IAEA oversight
- Verified by NK itself (2005-2006); has not been verified halted

If you’re going to trot out an attempt at asserting an agency has been impotent, you should at least do a decent job of, you know, reading one or two things about the topic first. The above docs were all found in about an hour of online research. I’m sure there’s plenty more where all that came from.