Grasping at straws
Tell me something: How does the discovery of research papers and centrifuge parts buried 12 years ago support the contention that Iraq just recently had a nuclear weapons program that posed a clear and present danger to anybody?
In fact, doesn't it prove just the opposite?
National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack said the equipment from Obeidi's back yard are "what might be needed to build a centrifuge, concealed over time as part of a plan to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program after the [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspections were over."CNN article
You can't have it both ways: If the buried papers and parts were so essential to a nuclear program as to constitute a smoking gun, they would have been exhumed and used, if Iraq had a nuclear weapons program. The stuff was still buried, which means that the Iraqi nuclear program had not been reconstituted.
Oops.