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July 12, 2008 08:27 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It Too
by Christopher Merola
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On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq. The opening paragraph is as follows:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program – a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium – reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, “Bush lied.” Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam’s yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy.

It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.

This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam’s nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would report the story? Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.

This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush’s war motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, 

The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” – the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment – was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy.

Closing the book on Saddam’s nuclear legacy? Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush lied? As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe Wilson and his wife.

Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger. The CIA and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose but needed proof.

During his trip to Niger, Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in "expanding commercial relations" for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake.

Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki’s remarks and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger.

However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 2003.

Outraged by Bush’s insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush.

Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the yellowcake from Niger. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki’s claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime minister’s statements.

It was a simple tactic really. If the far-left and their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger, it would undermine President Bush’s credibility and give them more cause for asking what other “lies” he may have told.

Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the prime minister’s statements and concluded all by himself that the claim of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was "unequivocally wrong." Curiously, the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the  yellowcake claim. This was made public in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.

Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that the Bush administration “outed” her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage -- no friend of the Bush administration -- who leaked Plame’s identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years.

The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media and their left-wing friends on the blogosphere engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam’s uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit they were wrong? Don’t count on it. The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam’s uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get.

As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that,

“Bush lied,” we should tell them to, “Have the yellowcake and eat it too.”



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July 12, 2008 09:09 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I don't believe this. Bush lied and that was proven.  They will say anything to save the so called Bush legacy...
July 12, 2008 09:22 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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the arguement from the left is going to be that this uranium was "old" stuff  (some of the barrels were so rusted they had to be replaced), that the u.n. knew about it( some of the barrels had u.n. stickers on them), and that saddam had "abandond his nuck program, and we were talking about the CHEMICAL wepons bush lied about. so these arn't "REALLY" wepons of mass destruction.

o.k.....that means that even if your teen daughter has missed 2 periods, and had a positive home e.p.t. she is not "really" pregnant, because she has not been to a doctor, and her belly isn't swelling, getting morning sickness, ect.

 

either she is pregnant, or she isn't....either sadam had wmds in violation of u.n. resolution 1440, and others, or he did not.

age, knowledge of, lack of active usage programs, and intended use do not excuse the presence of CONCENTRATED(partally enriched) uranium, "pesticides" that are 10 times the concentration found elsewhere in the world(discovered at a "farm" during the initial invasion), samples of smallpox(for "reserch"), taubin chemical agent(again, found during the inital march to bagdad...2 kilos, supposedly for "training") or the over 400 ied's using chemical shells that have been found and disarmed.

either he was in violation of u.n. mandates, or he wasn't....the evidence says he was, no matter how the left trys to spin and excuse in order to bash bush.

 

but the MSM won't tell us the truth, that's why i come here...keep up the good work.
July 12, 2008 09:23 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Lady Jane said: I don't believe this. Bush lied and that was proven.  They will say anything to save the so called Bush legacy...

 

I agree Lady Jane, if they would have found one OUNCE of radioactive material, they would have stood on the top of the white house and screamed it out for the world to see at the time they found it!!  It was a lie, it was a set up to the American people to satisfy a bush/cheney agenda from day one in the white house---get saddam!!

If you have to hyphenate your race--you are NOT an American!! This from a French-German-English-Irish-AMERICAN! See how silly this can become?
July 12, 2008 09:52 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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VeeBee said:
Lady Jane said: I don't believe this. Bush lied and that was proven.  They will say anything to save the so called Bush legacy...

 

I agree Lady Jane, if they would have found one OUNCE of radioactive material, they would have stood on the top of the white house and screamed it out for the world to see at the time they found it!!  It was a lie, it was a set up to the American people to satisfy a bush/cheney agenda from day one in the white house---get saddam!!

 

I totally agree.... I do not believe ANYTHING that this administration says.     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313
July 12, 2008 10:03 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Apparently MSNBC changed it's mind from that 3 year old story:



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July 12, 2008 10:07 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I agree Lady Jane, if they would have found one OUNCE of radioactive material, they would have stood on the top of the white house and screamed it out for the world to see at the time they found it!! 

 

Not necessarily.  Why would they want to broadcast it before it was safely out of there and at it's destination, risking a hijacking, piracy on the high seas, or whatever.  It makes perfect sense to keep it on the QT til safely in Canada.



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July 12, 2008 10:14 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Nope, this administration is full of leaks from people who got tired of lying for them, so, it would have been leaked a long time ago, plus, I can't see canada taking that much radioactive material, the people there would be going beserk!!  That is a LOT of radioactive material!!

If you have to hyphenate your race--you are NOT an American!! This from a French-German-English-Irish-AMERICAN! See how silly this can become?
July 12, 2008 10:29 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Well, veebee you can see for youself Canada has it unless you think Bush even controls world nuclear news.  And if it was kept quiet, why would Canadians even know about it to bitch?  As little fuss as the MSM is making about this, makes me even more inclined to believe it!

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July 12, 2008 10:54 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Patsy said:

Apparently MSNBC changed it's mind from that 3 year old story:

 

What does this have to do with "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION"? They even say In the article that COULD NOT BE USED TO MAKE  A NUCLEAR WEAPON or a DIRTY BOMB In Its current state.     http://www.iraqsnuclearmirage.com/YellowTimes/Iraq_Nuclear_NonCapability.htm    http://middleeastreference.org.uk/ft030914.html 
July 12, 2008 11:09 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Right...."in it's current state."  You saying it's "current state" was unchangeable and it would never be useful?  And if yellow cake was no big deal, then that sort of renders all the Valerie Plame crap as just that....crap!  Which it was.  Or perhaps you believe Saddam had peaceful uses in mind for the uranium??



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July 12, 2008 11:13 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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To "Lady Jane--VeeBee---and Peanut 1958.       I can see that no matter what anyone says or does to perhaps make Pres. Bush look good ,or right--You'll always want to  debunk it !!I feel sorry for you ,that you can't (or don't want to) see the truth-if it hit you in the face. I've stated on another "site" here at  F.S.--that at least a dozen Democrats (your friends) said the same thing about SADDAM having "Weapons of mass destruction" The only problem I see---is that the "Drive By Media" only wanted to spout off that Bush  said it.Before you three go off on a tangent----find out the TRUTH.  And the truth is----Saddam did have "Weapons of Mass Destruction"  The TRUTH will out---and then you can Bite Your Tongues!!!!  Even your friend Hillary Clinton said that Saddam had them. Surprised ??   I'm sick and tired of people like you always wanting to belittle  any and all Republicans  without first finding out the TRUTH !!!
July 12, 2008 11:26 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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rush-baby said: To "Lady Jane--VeeBee---and Peanut 1958.       I can see that no matter what anyone says or does to perhaps make Pres. Bush look good ,or right--You'll always want to  debunk it !!I feel sorry for you ,that you can't (or don't want to) see the truth-if it hit you in the face. I've stated on another "site" here at  F.S.--that at least a dozen Democrats (your friends) said the same thing about SADDAM having "Weapons of mass destruction" The only problem I see---is that the "Drive By Media" only wanted to spout off that Bush  said it.Before you three go off on a tangent----find out the TRUTH.  And the truth is----Saddam did have "Weapons of Mass Destruction"  The TRUTH will out---and then you can Bite Your Tongues!!!!  Even your friend Hillary Clinton said that Saddam had them. Surprised ??   I'm sick and tired of people like you always wanting to belittle  any and all Republicans  without first finding out the TRUTH !!!

 

Do you have any links that support your case that Iraq had weapons that were an "IMMINENT THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES"  as Bush led us to believe? Do you really think that they had the ability to launch An INTERCONTINENTAL  BALLISTIC MISSLE directed towards the United States?  WOW !!
July 12, 2008 11:34 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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For crying out loud, what is it that libs fail to comprehend????  They didn't have to have intercontinental capability!!!  They didn't need a big army.  They didn't need a big air force.  They didn't need a big navy!!  TOne single person with one single brief case is ALL that was needed!!  Geesh!!!



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July 12, 2008 11:49 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Patsy said:

For crying out loud, what is it that libs fail to comprehend????  They didn't have to have intercontinental capability!!!  They didn't need a big army.  They didn't need a big air force.  They didn't need a big navy!!  TOne single person with one single brief case is ALL that was needed!!  Geesh!!!

 

Now your saying that the "IMMINENT THREAT" from Iraq was that a person might carry a briefcase  to America,and then do what with It? And by the way,I  am an INDEPENDENT,even though this has nothing to do with POLITICAL AFFILIATION....  This has to do more with "common sense",and logical thinking derived from facts and not fantasy. THE C.I.A has stated,and the 9/11 commission (which was NON-PARTISAN) have both stated that there were NEVER ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ,and that includes weapons that would somehow make there way (maybe through the MEXICAN BORDER ??) In briefcases....... GEESH!!!
July 12, 2008 12:01 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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No, peanut, I didn't say BOO about "imminent threat".  YOU are the one who brought up intercontinental ballistic missiles.  I'm saying ICBM's are not needed!  As for the 9/11 commission....non partisan is an interesting choice of words.  Equal opportunity snow job white wash is more accurate.  So, by your "common sense logic" because that ICBM or briefcase weapon "didn't exist" at the time, it was impossible for it ever to exist at any time in the future.  Okay.  Whatever.

"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders." Larry Elder
July 12, 2008 12:07 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Patsy said: No, peanut, I didn't say BOO about "imminent threat".  YOU are the one who brought up intercontinental ballistic missiles.  I'm saying ICBM's are not needed!  As for the 9/11 commission....non partisan is an interesting choice of words.  Equal opportunity snow job white wash is more accurate.  So, by your "common sense logic" because that ICBM or briefcase weapon "didn't exist" at the time, it was impossible for it ever to exist at any time in the future.  Okay.  Whatever.

 

George Bush Is the one that said that Iraq was an "IMMINENT THREAT"    http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/iraqimminent.html
July 12, 2008 12:30 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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George Bush isn't on these boards.  Neither are all the other who used the imminent thread argument.....from BOTH sides of the aisle!

"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders." Larry Elder
July 12, 2008 12:58 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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People are very blinded by Bush hatred.  Bush did not lie and that is now proven.

What possible use, other than to make dirty bombs or nukes, would Iraq have for this uranium?  They sit on millions of barrels of oil for energy.  Do you think they really wanted to build a bunch of nuclear reactors for energy?

 



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July 12, 2008 03:32 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Patsy said:

Right...."in it's current state."  You saying it's "current state" was unchangeable and it would never be useful?  And if yellow cake was no big deal, then that sort of renders all the Valerie Plame crap as just that....crap!  Which it was.  Or perhaps you believe Saddam had peaceful uses in mind for the uranium??

 

Yah! Just like the Iranian madman Adinahmajab-sp., eh?

Could this also be the underlaying reason Pres. Bush pardoned Libby? Hmmmm!

Sometimes QT is necesaary for the better good, even in our own lil lives. 

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