The New York Times reports that among the documents captured from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and posted recently by the Bush administration were instructions –”charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives” — for building a nuclear bomb. But the thrust of the Times story is not the obvious conclusion that Saddam was — yes indeed — a threat. Instead, the message is that the Bush administration blundered in posting the documents, which the IAEA and other experts have protested could be dangerous in the hands of a state like Iran.
So we’re now supposed to believe that for Saddam, these documents were just so much wallpaper; but in the hands of Iran they would be a deadly menace. More on this on NRO and Haft of the Spear.
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