Do you consider the New-Q-Ler Centerfuge found buried in Iraq a Weapon of Mass Destruction ?

Question

Please Democrats I know this goes against your "rubber bands were designed by the Government to kill us all conspiracy theory", but you can answer.
If you dare.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/25/sprj.irq.centrifuge/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/26/sprj.irq.iraq.weapons.hunt/index.html

Answer 1

Two quick points from that article:

The gas centrifuge equipment dates to Iraq's pre-1991 efforts to build nuclear weapons.

and

U.S. officials emphasized this was not evidence Iraq had a nuclear weapon

Yet, "Before being barred from Iraq in 1998, the International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled extensive nuclear weapons-related facilities, including three uranium-enrichment sites.

That same year, information from a high-ranking Iraqi nuclear engineer who had defected, revealed that despite his public promises, Saddam Hussein had ordered his nuclear program to continue. The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program." -Bush's "mushroom cloud" speech.

How, exactly, could he reconstitute his nuclear weapons program with centrifuges still buried in the sand a year after Bush made this speech?

Answer 2

The government was claiming that Iraq had tons of chemical weapons ready to use. I would call this evidence very small.

Of course even with this stuff it would take Iraq most of a decade to build a bomb, just like if we gave Iran approval to build a nuclear bomb it would be at least 5 or 6 years before they could produce anything on the small scale. But you guys don't want to acknowledge that either.

Answer 3

No. I consider it a component used to create part of a reactor core of a nuclear plant used to create electricity that will produce plutonimum which -- if an enrichment facillity were constructed and operated -- could be turned into material that may be able to create a weapon of mass destruction.

Now, in order for that to become a threat to the U.S. Hussein would've had to build a functioning nuclear plant and enrichment facillity, carry out a variety of tests while acquiring various components to build a delivery system.

But there's no evidence of that ... is there?

Answer 4

No a centrifuge by itself is certainly not a WMD. Not even close.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/isg-final-report_vol2_nuclear-02.htm

Answer 5

Yeah, and attached is a receipt that says property of American Government. I´m not democrat but of course, I CAN answer. Over and out. (back to the drawing board)

Answer 6

No if it had been any potential weapon it would already have been used by previous regime when it gettihg uprooted.
It is yet another plot by US to justify the waste of resources done by it(lives,money,property,etc)

Answer 7

OF COURSE IT IS

liberalism is living in a constant state of denial of reality

Answer 8

Yes, theirs.