Re: Saddam's Nukes~~ Why Did Joe Wilson Lie?

"leonard78sp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <leonard78sp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Saddam's Nukes
> By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
> Monday, July 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT
> 
> WMD: Hear about the 550 metric tons of
> yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should
> you? It doesn't fit the media's neat story line that
> Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed no nuclear threat when
> we invaded in 2003.
> 
> It's a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003,
> the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium
> yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear
> weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha
> outside of Baghdad.
> 
> In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi
> government ****p it all to Canada, where it was bought
> by a Canadian company for further processing into
> nuclear fuel ‹ thus keeping it from potential use by
> terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region.
> 
> This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream
> media. Yet, as the AP re****ted, this marks a
> "significant step toward closing the books on
> Saddam's nuclear legacy."
> 
> Seems to us this should be big news.
> 
> After all, much of the early opposition to the war
> in Iraq involved claims that President Bush "lied"
> about weapons of mass destruction and that
> Saddam posed little if any nuclear threat to the U.S.
> This more or less proves Saddam in 2003 had a
> program on hold for building WMD and that he
> planned to boot it up again soon.
> 
> This is clear, since Saddam acquired most of his
> uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when
> invading U.S. troops found the stuff.
> 
> The International Atomic Energy Agency seems to
> have known about the yellowcake in the 1990s, but
> did nothing to force Saddam to get rid of it. It's
> duplicating its error today with Iran and North Korea.
> 
> That means Saddam held onto it for more than a
> decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions
> on Iraq and start his WMD program anew. This
> would seem to vindicate Bush's decision to invade.
> 
> The American Thinker Web site re****ted four years
> ago on the scary math behind Saddam's uranium
> hoard: 500 tons of yellowcake, once refined, could
> make 142 nuclear weapons.
> 
> But yellowcake wasn't all they found at Tuwaitha.
> According to the AP, the military also discovered
> "four devices for controlled radiation exposure . . .
> that could potentially be used in a weapon."
> 
> By the way, this should put to rest the canard
> peddled by the American left and by former
> Ambassador Joseph Wilson that "Bush lied"
> about Iraq seeking yellowcake from the African
> country of Niger.
> 
> Given what we know, including comments by
> officials in Niger's government, Iraq did make
> overtures to buy uranium. And it's quite possible
> all or part of the 550 tons came from there.
> 
> What's more, if Bush hadn't acted, we might
> today see a nuclear Iraq, an Iran on the way to
> having a weapon, Libya with an expanded
> nuclear program, and Syria ‹ with its close ties
> to Saddam ‹ on the way to having a nuke.
> 
> Of equal concern is why the media ignored this
> good news coming from Iraq. It seems to be of a
> piece with how they've treated other recent
> positive developments in Iraq (see editorial below).
> 
> We ask again ‹ why aren't you seeing and hearing
> more about this? The reason is simple: The
> mainstream media find it inconveniently contradicts
> the story they have been telling you for years.
> 

Hate to burst your bubble, but it was re****ted in the mainstream press, 
and if you read the original article thoroughly you will see that the 
cake was known about and under UN seal way back in 1991 after the first 
Gulf War.  The rusting and leaking containers were bought by a Canadian 
firm and ****pped out of Iraq.  No big secret. Only right wing nincompoops 
who don't keep up with the news see anything nefarious here.