In his weekly radio address, Bush today claimed the war in Iraq will keep Americans safe for generations to come. If an article published by Mother Jones today is true, however, the president may be wrong yet again.

According to the Mother Jones article, Saddam’s nuclear program during the late 1980s was one of the most efficient covert nuclear efforts the world has ever seen. Yet despite the Bush administration’s claims of wanting to keep Americans safe for generations to come, only three of the 200-some scientists at the top of Saddam’s 1980s WMD program can be accounted for.

“Nobody knows how many Iraqi scientists may have been lured over the borders into Iran, Syria, or beyond. Nobody knows because no one is keeping tabs. But several observers agree that so little attention is being paid to Iraq’s scientists, the war may actually have increased the chances of nuclear capabilities proliferating beyond the country’s borders. Between its unemployed scientists and the disappearance of large amounts of WMD-related materials from former weapons sites, Iraq now poses a nightmare scenario.”