Bush didn't lie!!: Saddam Did have yellow cake

[jrance@iacwds.com 716]

Click the link to MSNBC story at bottom of page.

 

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 3 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 insi sting 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.' This story was verified, If you want to see it, click on

the link below.

 

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/

[Cobra 76 two 2,677]

Hell yeah! Eat cake liberal scum!

[Juggernaut 11,054]

See, thats why I voted for pie.......

[U.S. Pratorean 1,234]

Got- amighty!! The press suck major raw nut!!

[Twinsen 86]

Sex!

[Reverendfranz 160]

Actualy the iraq stockpile of yellowcake was known previous to 1991 when iraq did have a nuclear program. When that program was suspended, it was placed under the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency "safeguard" until the invasion, it was stored practicly in the open in al-Tuwaitha. It was no secret, and in fact many people had complained frequently in the early years of the war about the US's failure to guard it properly, with locals looting from the site almost daily. Yellowcake is essentially inert, and requires immense expenditures to turn into anything remotely threatening, other than yellow paint. This was reported by several concerned parties immediately following the invasion, but america was too enthralled with "Shock and Awe" to notice.

 

So yes, the media was lying when it said there was no nuclear materials in Iraq, but they knew that then, and this is no vindicating disclosure for Bush, unless he also demonstrates without a doubt that the UN nuclear watchdog program was not effective, and that Saddam was actually expending the immense amounts of energy, chemicals, and equipment necisarry to do anything with this yellowcake. It would be apparent if he had an active program, to anyone with a nuclear background, and im sure we would have heard about it.

 

Spin abounds.

[evildog 20]

Sure you'll never see much of this on the "liberal news media" especially with the up coming election. Would look bad for all those dems that were tainting Bush as lying to the american people. If it bleeds it leads. No good news is leading news.

[Azrial 1,091]

... So yes, the media was lying when it said there was no nuclear materials in Iraq, but they knew that then, and this is no vindicating disclosure for Bush, unless he also demonstrates without a doubt that the UN nuclear watchdog program was not effective, and that Saddam was actually expending the immense amounts of energy, chemicals, and equipment necisarry to do anything with this yellowcake. ...

Exactly what do you believe the purpose of Sadam's possession to be here?

[Reverendfranz 160]

previous to the 1991 UN agreements Sadam had an active nuclear program in development. AFICR, this wasnt an international concern before the war, and may have been in cooperation of IAEA. Dont know. Yellowcake is the source material between raw ore and uranium of any useful purpose. Im not sure exactly why the UN didnt take it after that, which is what we have now done, id say getting it out of the sand is the better call. I guess they though they had it under enough control right where it was. like i said, the stuf is mostly inert.

Edited September 27, 2008 by ReverendFranz

[elvis christ 451]

Didn't Sadaam get a nuclear reactor from former French president Chirac in the mid-80's? It was before Chirac was the president, he held some other government position.

[Kwicko 8]

Didn't Sadaam get a nuclear reactor from former French president Chirac in the mid-80's? It was before Chirac was the president, he held some other government position.

 

Well, he had one under construction in '79, but the Israilis tampered with it a bit (that "tampering" being by way of dropping several hundred pounds of bombs on it), and it didn't work so good after that.

 

 

Mike

[IndyArms 10,186]

mmm.... Yellow cake...

 

 

From the Nigerian mines to the smelters of Iraq... gotta love that!

 

 

 

 

[lance 4]

I saw them transfer some of this in 60 foot containers with big "radioactive" plackards all over them. they flew into Diego Garcia on some C-17s and they transferred them to the ships with lots of armed guards surrounding them. I was riding around with someone pretty important, I asked him WTF is in there, he said the WMDs that didn't exist from Iraq. crazy stuff

[s8lorenzo 0]

:smoke:F**k those Puto's!!!

[patriot 7,197]

Saddam also had Sarin, VX, Tabun, mustard gas.

[Bvamp 604]

Saddam also had Sarin, VX, Tabun, mustard gas.

 

yup, a lifelong friend's cousin (career military) told us about what they had found this second time into Iraq. They cared more about the insurgency and terrorists NOT knowing about it, and what we had found, than impressing the socialist, liberal, lying, manipulative media with the truth.

 

Bush has had one tough presidency, I will say that much.

[sicktooth 8]

im sure that man will be blowing one BIG splif when hes done in office....