THREE NUKES FOUND IN IRAQ? No Big Deal!

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[Yosemitest]

Three Nukes Found in Iraq? No Big Deal!


July 21, 2004

Listen to Rush…
(…explain what the left's spin will be, if three nukes were indeed found in Iraq)

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RUSH: From the United Press International:

"Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear warheads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday. The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein [al-Tikriti]. 'The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads,' the sources said. They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable [sic] sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation. The sources said al-Douri...was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official."

Now, one of the Iraqi internal security guys says that this is a "stupid report." Well, here's the thing about this, folks. So we have this report from UPI that three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench have been discovered near Tikrit. We got the security guy saying, "That's stupid. That isn't true." Now, I can understand wantin' to go keep this quiet, (laughing) if they discovered live nuclear missiles, you know, laying around in trenches in Tikrit. But the real question, ladies and gentlemen, is not did we find nuclear missiles in Iraq. That is to miss the point. As is it the case with the Sandy Berger investigation, the question is "the timing of the leak." The question here is, "How old are these nukes? Could they be remnants from Hitler, from World War II? Could they be prior to the Gulf War of '91? Could these nuclear weapons have been there before we went to war in 2003?" And really, it's only three, just three nuclear missiles, so I don't know what the hubbub is about.

So, they're nukes. It's just three of them, and they may be old, Mr. Snerdley. You are focusing on the wrong aspect of the story. The focus is not that we have found some nuclear weapons in Iraq, or that it's reported. The interest is, "How did we do it?" Who leaked the information the stuff was there to be found? How old are these nukes, and whose are they? If you don't learn to look at it the way this is going to be portrayed in the press -- in fact, I'm not aware that anybody besides UPI has reported this and even picked up on this, because if this is true, heh, heh, heh. Joe Wilson, anybody? If this is true, I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11, anybody? (Laughing.) So we just have to keep a sharp eye on this, but until we know if it's true, we're going to look at it in the approved way, and that is, "So what? It's just three, and they could have been there a long time."

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Read the Articles...

(UPI: Nuclear arms reportedly found in Iraq)
(WT: Official denies nuclear arms found in Iraq)
(AP: Iraq Interior Ministry Says Report on Nukes 'Stupid')

[Yosemitest]

Okay the Demorcrats are standing over a "smoking gun" in Iraq, saying "There's no smokin' gun!."

Great job, Rush.

[Jenya]

Those lefties spin like tops. Man, would I love to take away their, "No WMDs" battlecry.

[GeronL]

The timing of this post is suspicious, it raises questions. =o)

[Diogenesis]

BREAKING

THIS JUST IN -
The upper-level DNC's response after receiving information of three Iraqi nuclear weapons.

[Defender2]

"Great job, Rush."


Mega Dittos'!!!!

:-)

D2

[endthematrix]

Hey, they aren't pointed in our direction!!

[Yosemitest]

It raises questions alright! Like "What will the democrats do now!" Like "How will thay deny this?"

I'm sure you can add many more questions.

[Yosemitest]

If Sadam's dwelling was close to these war-heads, do you think he'd die of radiation sickness?

[Keith in Iowa]

See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175358/posts for the full discussion from when the report first came out in a Baghdad paper...

[AnimalLover]

Bump

[Yosemitest]

Senate Info Supports Bush:
Saddam DID Pursue WMD, Defy International Restrictions

"But Democrats can't handle the FACTS..."

[passionfruit]

Didn't we take away their battle cry several weeks ago when sarin and mustard gas were used improperly against our guys, and made them sick but didn't kill them?

Finding nukes is icing on the cake.

[JerseyHighlander]

Has there been any clarification, or follow-up, by a reputable news organization, or government agency, almost 24 hours after this broke, to give any further credence to this claim?

[JeffreyH]

I am awaiting the news as well. Had too many 'false alarms' to get excited about. I am hoping it was like the radioactive material found here... you didn't hear about it until it was safely back in the US. Hopefully that is the situation here.

Anything heard, please ping me, eh?

Jeffrey

[Yosemitest]

"...a reputable news organization..."

The only one I know is FOX NEWS and they're scared to touch this one.

[Yosemitest]

This book "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" by Judith Miller, William J. Broad, William Broad, and Stephen Engelberg has really scared me. I'm listening to it on CD and it should be required listening to all Americans. (It was on Compact Disc - Abridged, 5 CDs, 5 hrs., November 2001) I got it on the sales table for $6.00. It's worth your time.

[jeffers]

Two things...

One, you can't fire missiles from under six meters of concrete in any 45 minutes. It'd take at least an hour. There was NO imminent threat.

Heh.

Two, It's great to see the caution that conservatives are approaching this story with. Not that it'll do much good. From past experience, you see righties saying "wait and see", and lefties shrieking, "WMD FOUND!!! THERE'S NO WMD!!!"

Then a week later they're saying, "See? Told ya. Can't understand all the fuss."

Reckon we know where the sore spot is, eh?

;-)

[Yosemitest]

"...you can't fire missiles from under six meters of concrete in any 45 minutes."

No. ...But you can detonate them under yourself and the troops that are overrunning you. The military logic is "...if your going to die anyway...take as many with you as you can."

[chainsaw]

In my book missiles with Nuclear warheads constitutes Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The Bush administration was wrong. The Iraqi's were not six months from having Nuclear weapons, they already had them.

I wonder why Blix didn't find these?

Why didn't the Democrats know about this?

[mtbopfuyn]

Sitting in yoga position muttering, "There are no WMDs... there are no WMDs... there are no WMDs..."