June 26, 2003
WMDs: IS THIS REALLY THE BEST WE CAN DO?
CNN is reporting that the United States has found evidence that Saddam Hussein's government concealed plans to reconstitute its nuclear program as soon as no one was looking. The 'evidence,' picture below, is weak at best (in my humble opinion). It was 'discovered' by US officials -- oh, sorry, members of the CIA -- who received a tip from an Iraqi scientist who claims the materials were buried in his backyard, under a rose bush no less, for the last 12 years. According to CNN, the parts pictured below constitute a centrifuge system for enriching uranium.
First of all -- and I wholeheartedly admit that I know absolutely nothing about enriching uranium or what it takes to make nuclear bombs -- but these materials look like they could have been made by anyone who knows how to bend metal or use a lathe. Secondly... give me a friggin' break... are we really supposed to believe that this stuff -- which has supposedly been burried in some guy's backyard for more than a decade -- is truly evidence of anything in particular?
If so, in a canister buried somewhere in western Connecticut, out behind the Sherman School, are some materials burried by my 2nd grade class that may prove useful to the CIA. Included in the canister -- which we called a time capsule -- is a frequency transmitter disguised as a battery-powered hand-held radio, which of course is conclusive evidence of a subversive attempt to communicate with the enemy when no one was looking. Similar canisters are buried throughout Connecticut (behind the Huckleberry Hill School in Brookfield and the Schaghticoke School in New Milford). Those jelly beans we buried... I'm sure they've turned into enriched uranium by now.
Posted by Mikal at June 26, 2003 7:16 AM
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