s lie again.s lie again."Not exactly - at least not if one counts the 500 tons of uranium that the Iraqi dictator kept stored at his al Tuwaitha nuclear weapons development plant."
I guess the UN/Mainstream Media definition of "stockpile" is that it has to be at least 501 tons.
Check out Page 30 of the Duelfer Report
http://www2.cia.gov/Iraqs_WMD_Vol3.pdf
The next time someone tells you there were no WMDs in Iraq tell them that the Duelfer Report that is being quoted so often in the media cites 53 Chemical WMDs found in Iraq since June 2004. Forty one SAKR-18 Sarin tipped rockets were found in one location. The SAKR-18 is an Egyption manufactured copy ofhe Soviet BM-21. Each Rocket has a range of 20-40 Km depending on the rocket motor and carries a 38 Kg war head. This particular version of the SAKR carries the capability of dispersing smoke for battlefield concealment. Anyone of these fired into a population center or smuggled into a public gathering could easily inflict 1-X – 100X the casualties of 911.
What constitutes WMD stockpile(s) in Iraq? How much WMD do you need as proof? No one in officialdom has defined what that is. When we do find WMDs in Iraq, the U.S. officials are noncommittal. So WTF?
This is why people shouldn't rely on the MSM for their news.
It's interesting that even Greenpeace reported on all that uranium at Tuwaitha :
"A nuclear reactor complex at Tuwaitha was bombed by Israel in 1981, but uranium not yet enriched for use in nuclear weapons has remained there. Following the 1991 Gulf War, the IAEA removed all known Iraqi stocks of nuclear material that could be used in weapons, in accordance with the provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 687. All other radioactive material, including uranium, remained and was checked once a year by the IAEA, under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, until December last year.
At that time, the bulk of all known nuclear material in Iraq was stored in sealed barrels at the Tuwaitha nuclear research facility. The IAEA says that in December, 500 tonnes of "yellowcake" and 1.8 tonnes of low-enriched uranium remained at Tuwaitha, although hundreds of other highly radioactive, industrial sources were still in the country."
(http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/extra/?campaign_id=135724&forward_source_anchor=Tuwaitha&item_id=285993)
See also http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14295
(“The UN, Al-Tuwaitha, and Nukes from July 20, 2004”)
Gee I wonder what you would have if Saddam had given a few pounds of the enriched stuff to terrorists -- A stick of dynamite and a deadly big mess.
You wonder if the MSM thinks no one is going to read the actual reports? Or is this what the MSM is counting on.
All hail Buckhead, and spread the word.
I have 500 tons of uranium in my backyard too. They're called the Rocky Mountains
If this is the case then BUSH should be telling this to the American people
Sounds like WMDs to me
bttt
Just for my clarification. I thought this was uranium that we "knew about" (which makes it ok ;-). You know, it was "sealed" by the UN or whatever. But this article makes it seem otherwise. In fact it makes it seem as if we had no idea this uranium was there at all. Is that really true?
1.8 TONS! Isn't critical mass just a few tens of kilos?
Excellent post I got this one bookmarked.
This info will be buried by the MSM for the duration. As ABC says so eloquently, Kerry's mistakes and distortions aren't done in an effort to win, but GW's are. So they'll have to do their bit in the effort to bring down a sitting president...and in wartime, to boot.
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