Well, the AP posted it first, so there will have to ba a verification period..Big Blue Owl wrote:If this is true (about the uranium) then all of the media outlets deserve a gem-stone kicking! As well as certain others.
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Cool!ElfDude wrote:By the way, BBO. I'm still chuhckling over here at your yellow cake picture with Homer. That was some very well-deserved payback! I'm glad you took the opportunity!
And the way it was taken is another testament to this community's over-all awesomicity and brings a truly cromulent feeling of good nature, good humor and good times to all who dwell here.
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If true (this time):CygnusX1 wrote:Well WHAADYA KNOW....
U.S. Military finds 550 Metric Tons of Yellowcake (Uranium) in Iraq
"Bush Lied"
DID HE?
"It appears that American troops found 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...."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Chri ... eat_it_too
Hm. Well, it was all worth it, then. A recovered fumble is better than a fumble. Sometimes better than a straight touchdown, psychologically. I say GREAT! Let's move over to where we've been needed for years now. Afghanistan, baby...here we come.
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U.S. Military finds 550 Metric Tons of Yellowcake (Uranium) in Iraq
If you check into this, you'll quickly find that the uranium
a) was not weapons grade and
b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam's government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.
The yellow cake referenced in this story was known to International Arms Inspectors, and had been under control sense 1992, after the Gulf war.
Since some people know Iraq had no WMDs in 2003, we should lie to them by confusing legally stored regulated reactor grade uranium with bomb grade secret reserves of the stuff that Saddam didn't have.
Saddam of course had a nuclear program, the one the Israelis bombed into oblivion in 1981. In 2002, he had no such program.
Buried in all the scorn for people who acknowledge the obvious that Bush was lying, is an acknowledgement that the uranium was not weapons grade or even dirty bomb grade.
If you check into this, you'll quickly find that the uranium
a) was not weapons grade and
b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam's government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.
The yellow cake referenced in this story was known to International Arms Inspectors, and had been under control sense 1992, after the Gulf war.
Since some people know Iraq had no WMDs in 2003, we should lie to them by confusing legally stored regulated reactor grade uranium with bomb grade secret reserves of the stuff that Saddam didn't have.
Saddam of course had a nuclear program, the one the Israelis bombed into oblivion in 1981. In 2002, he had no such program.
Buried in all the scorn for people who acknowledge the obvious that Bush was lying, is an acknowledgement that the uranium was not weapons grade or even dirty bomb grade.
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Since we're copy/pasting comments posted below the article, I guess these might be appropriate ones to use to that one...
and maybe...After 9/11,
After Afganistan,
America and the
American people were aroused.
There was only one place in the world,
Where US planes were being fired at every day-
The ?No-Fly? zones in Iraq.
Saddam broke every part of the 1991 ceasefire.
He defied repeated UN resolutions.
He interfered with and expelled UN inspectors.
He corrupted ?Oil for Food?
He had undeniable links to terrorists.
He had over a year to come to terms.
The US Congress voted for military action.
Of the 23 ?Whereas..? clauses in the resolution,
Only 2 dealt with WMD.
In all fairness though, I must confess some ignorance and a bit of over-reaction yesterday.Critics of the Iraq War have been quick to point out that the UN already knew about Saddam?s yellowcake, and that it was purchased before the 1991 Gulf War, but such arguments are meaningless in view of the Duelfer Report?s conclusion that Saddam was trying to get sanctions lifted in order to resume his WMD program.
In addition, there was Saddam?s penchant for throwing out UN weapon inspectors. Had sanctions been lifted with Hussein still in power, no honest person can dismiss the likelihood of a nuclear arms race between Iraq and its primary enemy, Iran. Moreover, British and U.S. intelligence agencies still maintain that Iraq was interested in buying more yellowcake from Niger in 1999, despite the denials of Leftist celebrity Joseph Wilson.
Speaking of Wilson, his lies were further exposed this week with the release of a formerly classified CIA document. According to the document, ?super secret agent? Valerie Plame did in fact suggest that the CIA send her husband to Niger to sort out what she called ?this crazy report? about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium.
Under oath, Plame told Congress that she made no such recommendation, and Wilson himself has insisted that Valerie had nothing to do with his little excursion. Somehow we doubt that the Democrat-controlled Congress will call Plame back in to explain herself. But no matter: The world is safer without Saddam Hussein and his nuclear ambitions, and America is no doubt safer without Valerie Plame at the CIA or Joseph Wilson at the State Department.
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
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Who can lay blame, though? Anyone and everyone jumped on this story, thinking it was 100% clear-cut and true. And if it is, I'm with ya all the way.In all fairness though, I must confess some ignorance and a bit of over-reaction yesterday.
I think that my bottom line to this is that we are no safer, just poorer...to the tune of over a trillion dollars and quickly counting.
Let's go to Afghanistan!
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