This seems to be a rewrite to support Bush's decision to go to wa

[Mountainman]

While the various agencies agreed that Iraq had "a large-scale" biological weapons program and a more limited chemical weapons program, they were split on nuclear weapons.

The report concluded that Iraq could have produced a nuclear bomb "within several months" if Hussein had been able to buy bomb-making material from other countries. The timeline expanded to between 2007 to 2009 if Iraq had to produce its own highly enriched uranium and other bomb components.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/6337108.htm

Compare it to this


The excerpts include a conclusion that Baghdad "if left unchecked ... probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade." The documents also cite unsubstantiated reports that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from three African countries: Niger, Somalia and possibly Congo.

"Although we assess that Saddam does not yet have nuclear weapons or sufficient material to make any, he remains intent on acquiring," the intelligence assessment said. Most U.S. intelligence agencies, it continued, "assess that Baghdad started reconstituting its nuclear program about the time that (U.N. weapons) inspectors departed ? December 1998."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030719/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_uranium_24