Reply #13: This was the kicker right here >>>>

[Roland99]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20030716_192.html

But an IAEA spokeswoman said the agency had not been permitted by U.S. occupation authorities to check the status of Tuwaitha's stocks of highly-radioactive cesium-137, cobalt-160 and other materials which could be used in dirty bombs.

"There were around 400 of these radioactive sources stored at Tuwaitha," IAEA's Melissa Fleming said.

Witnesses have said that villagers near Tuwaitha, especially children, have shown symptoms of radiation sickness.

"Any case of radiation sickness would probably be from these highly-radioactive sources, not from the low-grade natural uranium at Location C," Fleming said.<more>

It was about at that point that my support for the war and for this administration and for Republicans in general started fading away and turning into the ardent and passionate anti-GOP person I am today. ;)