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Senators Question Posting of Iraqi Nuclear Papers

It sure took them long enough. The papers have been posted for over six months. And a review had already been started. This sounds like a bit of grandstanding on the part of Reid, Levin, Biden and Rockefeller.

Four Democratic senators demanded yesterday that the Bush administration explain its decision to post documents from Saddam Hussein's covert nuclear program on a now-shuttered federal Web site.

The lawmakers told President Bush's director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, that it was "shocking that sensitive documents directly related to the design of a nuclear weapon were made public by the executive branch."

Yes indeed, it's shocking - shocking that the administration would post evidence that shows that these lawmakers were wrong all along. It's shocking - shocking that the proof has been sitting there for months.

The documents, mostly in Arabic, had been posted since March on a Web site administered by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency and called the Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal.

Administration officials say the site was a repository for millions of pages that the U.S. government found in Iraq in the past 15 years.

Source: Senators Question Posting of Iraqi Nuclear Papers - washingtonpost.com

Harry Reid has been pushing the no WMD's line at the administration for years now. The Democratic party still has posts up on it's website that push the "Bush Lied" mantra. U.N. Weapons Inspectors have been saying that Iraq had no credible WMD programs for a couple of years now.

Meanwhile, the proof that Saddam had active WMD programs was sitting on the web for the last six months quietly waiting for someone to notice. On Friday the New York Times posted an article, and complained about the nuclear documents. In the same article we learned that U.N. Weapons inspectors were "alarmed" that documents describing nerve agents like tabun and sarin was posted on the site.

Can somebody please explain to me why all the alarm and outrage? Everybody knows Saddam didn't have WMD's! The Democrats have told us so for three years. The U.N. has told us so for three years. The New York Times has told us so for three years. Those documents can't be real can they?

Of course they can. And now, it's time for U.N. Chemical Weapons inspectors, Harry Reid, Carl Levin, Joe Biden, John D. Rockefeller IV, The New York Times and the radical left to eat a little crow. Of course they don't like the taste, so they're shocked, yes shocked that the proof of their own mendacity turns up in public view.

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