] 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.