] Hamdi Shukuir Ubaydi told CIA officials that he was
] ordered to bury a gas centrifuge used to enrich uranium --
] a necessary piece of equipment for developing a
] nuclear weapon -- in order to be ready to rebuild
] Iraq's bomb program.
]
] Ubaydi, who was head of Iraq's pre-1991 centrifuge
] enrichment program, told U.S. intelligence officials he
] was acting on orders from Saddam Hussein's government.
 . . .
] Other items of interest found buried in his garden
] included:
]
] A 2-foot-tall stack of related documents.
]
] A number of the most-difficult-to-make parts.
]
] Examples and templates which would be used to make a
] large number of centrifuges. A large number of
] centrifuges are needed to make nuclear weapons.

This story is from several months ago. *I* read it, but it seems that many other people, including certain Democratic Presidential candidates, haven't.

I find it so frustrating when I hear of anyone trying to make Saddam's regime out as some sort of misunderstood and innocent pawn in an evil Bush-administration plot.

Stories about Iraq's WMD programs were *not* fictional. Iraq had the weapons, had the programs, and was provably concealing those programs. Just because we're not finding stockpiles of weapons, doesn't mean that Iraq was clean.

Nuke Parts Unearthed in Baghdad Backyard