Anyone else remember Biden's 2002 Iraqi WMD Hearings with Hamza & Butler....

[Junkdrawer]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former Iraqi nuclear engineer told a Senate hearing Wednesday that the country could have nuclear weapons by 2005.

Khidir Hamza, who defected from Iraq in 1994, and other experts on Iraq testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the start of two days of hearings on the Iraqi threat to the United States and possible U.S. responses -- including a military attack.

Citing German intelligence estimates, Hamza said Iraq had more than 10 tons of uranium and one ton of slightly enriched uranium. Hamza said that could give Iraq enough weapons-grade uranium to build three nuclear weapons

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Sen. Joe Biden, the committee chairman, said Bush is justified in being concerned about Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.

"One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power," said Biden, D-Delaware.

The hearings were "not designed to prejudge any particular course of action," Biden said. But he cautioned that considerable thought must be given to the U.S. role in Iraq if it wages a successful assault.

"In Afghanistan, the war was prosecuted exceptionally well, but the follow-through commitment to Afghanistan's security and reconstruction has, in my judgment, fallen short," Biden said. "It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in his wake."

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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/senate.iraq.hearing/

As I remember it, it was those hearings that established the bipartisan consensus that Iraq did, indeed, have WMDs. I will, however, give Joe points for his concern about the post-invasion chaos.

This is important because we are now at the crossroads of two massively important issues:

1.) Does Iran have a nuclear weapons program?

2.) Do we want a new Cold War with Russia?

[bemildred]

1. On it's face, Biden is a good choice.

He is old school, part of the ruling elites, compliments Obama's so-called "weaknesses". I will have to see what role he plays in the campaign to come to a conclusion about it, but right now, it seems like a good choice.

[roody]

2. Unfortunately, there are two war parties, not just one.