The best jokes are based in truth...

When George W. Bush began his one-way trip down River Styx by claiming that Saddam Hussein had massive stockpiles of chemical and biological Weapons of Mass Destruction, as well as a functioning nuclear program, and was aiming them at our shores, the most common response in DC was:

Of course he does. We've got the receipts to prove it.



Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.
They're creepy and they're kooky...
mysterious and spooky! 

U.S. Firm Supplied Nuclear Black Market

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria - An investigation of the black market supplying nations wanting nuclear arms has spread to more than 20 firms — some of them North American — the chief of the U.N. atomic agency told The Associated Press Friday. A senior diplomat identified one of the firms as U.S. based.

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In separate comments to The Associated Press, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei avoided specifics on the locations of the firms supplying the nuclear black market beyond saying there were "over 20 countries, some of them in North America."

The diplomat said at least one of them was in the United States. He declined to elaborate, saying the agency "was not yet at the bottom of that story." But he said what is known about that company sheds new light on the activities of the network, known up to now for primarily supplying technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran as part of the process allowing them to make enriched uranium that can be used either to generate electricity or make weapons. LINK