Nov. 5, 2006
 
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Reader Takes Issue with Saddam Nuclear Bomb Story
 
Re: Jim Kouri column about prospective nuclear information and Hussein:
 
Quoting one single "former intelligence officer and NYPD detective", Kouri tried to make out the case that the New York Times was being duplicitous in failing to note the alleged existence of evidence Saddam Hussein was either in the process of or had documents to prove he could develop a nuclear bomb. The detective, a man named Francis, Kouri's only commentator, he makes the case, or tries, that the TIMES is trying to hide the evidence.
 
The problem with this commentary is that, if true, the Bush administration must have hidden it from the bipartisan commission tasked to review all available evidence that might link the 9/11 tragedy to Iraq or anyone else. It is not mentioned anywhere in the published material that came out of the Commission's hearings.
 
Beyond this, if true at all, and given the current polemics about Iran, would Kouri, Francis and the neocons of the Administration likewise have pumped for an invasion of that country as well on the basis of their having WMD's?
 
In the end, were the evidence really there to support Kouri and Francis, anyone with even minimal knowledge of the political game would know Karl Rove would not ignore its potential impact, nor would the leading political prostitute of the day Dick Morris, and certainly Ann Coulter would have had access and blabbed it all over the place.
 
Joseph J. Honick
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110