And the Liars are?

On the NY times ‘expose’ (and the IAEA’s nasty little information shell-game), the meant-to-be killer punch to Bush’s throat that has, in fact, done more than anything else to prove that we (the morally bankrupt) were entirely right, and the Left et. al. were, are, and generally always will be - wrong. For starters, in the words of U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra:

“These documents also raise several additional issues of interest. First, it is extraordinary that the New York Times now acknowledges that the captured documents demonstrate that ‘[Saddam] Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.’

This only reinforces the value of these documents in understanding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Only 1 percent of the estimated 120 million pages of captured documents have been reviewed, and we must continue working to promptly understand these materials. If there is concern about Saddam’s nuclear program, there should be similar concern about potential connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda suggested in the documents.

"Second, my staff's preliminary review of the documents in question suggests that at least some of them may be internal IAEA documents. There is a serious question of why and how the Iraqis obtained these documents in the first place. We need to explore that carefully - I certainly hope there will be no evidence that the IAEA had been penetrated by Saddam's regime.
So - Saddam had the goods. Not only that, the documents in question also prove Saddam’s links to the Palestinian terrorists in the PFLP as well as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, not to mention good old Al Qaeda. And, in the words of Saddam’s Nuclear Weapons Committee, a nuclear weapon would have been ready within 18-24 months of acquiring the fissile material. Once sanctions fell, which was imminent, he’d have been on his way, and he was already pushing his people to do precisely that.

This, actually, is absolute dynamite, and the New York Times has very kindly endorsed it for us. It most certainly vindicates the action taken to remove Saddam and the threat he posed. It also exposes the fact that the UN knew full well how close Saddam was, too.

And if we let this bomb die, the crime will be entirely ours.

Read more about it here, and here.

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