No WMD in Iraq Huh?
Via Investor’s Business Daily:
“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 ship 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 reported, 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…Saddam acquired most of his uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when invading U.S. troops found the stuff… 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.” —Investor’s Business Daily
This should definately vindicate the Bush Administration from “rushing us into to war” and “taking us into war under false pretenses” etc..
But in my mind it doesn’t vindicate the Bush Administration from keeping this enormous uranium find secret for the past 5 years.
What a Public Relations disaster this administration has been. Totally inept.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
550 Metric Tons of Yellowcake, what about it? (see video) US removes Uranium from Iraq, not what many assume, it was not discovered by the US and was not “WMD”: see video http://tinyurl.com/6zdq3w
July 10th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Yes these materials were declared to the UN Weapon Inspectors. I see there are still people trying to justify this illegal invasion and suggest alternatives reasons other than just oil..
November 5th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
What a hero George Bush is. He sacrificed the Constitution, international goodwill, the Republican party and any vestige of his own integrity all to keep this terrible stuff secret.