Posted on 07/19/2008 10:55:05 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Remember Joe Wilson? He's the diplomat who went to Niger to investigate Bush administration claims that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium, a raw material used in building nuclear bombs, from Africa. He wrote in a July 6, 2003, New York Times op-ed that he had spent the previous February in Niger, "drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people ... associated with the country's uranium business. It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place."
A story that has to be the most underplayed news item of the decade exposes Mr. Wilson's utter cluelessness, dishonesty or both. According to The Associated Press and other news services, the U.S. military transferred 550 tons of yellowcake, enough to produce 142 nuclear bombs, from Iraq to Canada at the Iraqi government's request. The yellowcake is believed to have been purchased by the Hussein regime before 1991; some may have been intended for the Osirak nuclear installation destroyed in an Israeli raid 10 years earlier.
Hussein got the yellowcake from somewhere. He almost certainly got it from Niger, Gabon, South Africa or Namibia, the four African countries with yellowcake mines. And Mr. Wilson, who served with the State Department in Baghdad and Gabon, didn't know (or didn't report in his Times op-ed) that Hussein possessed 550 tons of yellowcake at the time of Mr. Wilson's African junket.
The question this new development poses for the anti-war left: What do you suppose Hussein would be doing with his nuclear materials and WMD expertise today, more than five years after the Coalition of the Willing took him down, had he been allowed to remain in power?
>>>If I thought you were the slightest bit representative; I never would have bothered. There’s no way on earth I could even consider trying to defend your viewpoints.
Blah, blah, blah... Sorry, we don’t need your defense...
I mean, aren’t you talking about Canada? Your society of going down the drain with immigration infestation policies even worse then ours.
And you still don’t get the point. Do other nations have nuclear technology? Of course, they do. Should all nations be prohibited from having nuclear technology? Of course not. Should some be prohibited from having any nuclear technology. Absolutely.
You seem to take the lefty position: Well, who is anyone to tell anyone else anything? good grief!
But someone has to, at some point, put their foot down. That is often the role of the United States. And it should be the role of any nation not to engage in or support policies that are antithetical to their own interests. A nation that acts contrary to its own interests, will not survive. (Lately, that’s a lot of nations - including Canada, AND, unfortunately, in a number of area, including the U.S. That’s why conservatives are not entirely happy with John McLame)
As to your final paragraph: It shows that you are not paying attention. If or when the U.S. believed that Canada’s possession of nuclear technology was a threat to our security, we would act. So far, it does not. But, again that is our perogative as a sovereign nation to defend its interests. No one suggests that non-dangerous nations should not have nuclear power technology, if they are capable of managing it properly. But that is not the case with the scads of tin-pot dictatorships around the world.
That’s not N. Korea. That’s not Iran. That’s not most of the Middle East, and most Islamic nations. (Pakistan: Already got it - and that’s a problem)
Where you go wrong (other than not listening) is that you - like most libs - believe that all things are equal. Each nation is equal in the “fellowship of nations”, none are better or worse than others. Well, they are not. (American “arrogance” warning!!!) None better than the U.S. Few approach the U.S.
The U.S., like it or not, does have much to say about who gets nuclear technology, and how. And we will continue to act in our own best interests in this regard.
Canada? Well, Canada can continue to take in criminals and illegal aliens on the run, and give them lots of nice welfare. Shame.
>>>What are you — some kind of troll from DUmmy-land?
Up until now, I have questioned your judgment, but that is fair game in this type of discussion.
Your last is not. Now you are simply calling names.
Unlike you (since it appears that you consider this to be the normal course of events), I do not post things I do not believe in.
Get real, my friend. (My last post: Ditto...)
And stop the name-calling, or end the thread here.
The views expressed in your posts have been so extreme that it was only natural that I wondered whether you are a troll. Some smart*$$ trying to be “ironic” by posting the most extreme stereotypical views that the leftist moonbats imagine conservatives to hold.
>>>You talk about invading my country
WHAT????? Where? You must be kidding.
Either that, or you are really paranoid.
Never said anything of the kind. Re-read the posts.
In the meantime: Let’s drop the thread. You can’t carry on a normal discussion.
“If or when the U.S. believed that Canada’s possession of nuclear technology was a threat to our security, we would act. So far, it does not.”
Gosh, you’re dumb. (So much for diplomacy...a load of crap, anyway)
Do you have trouble reading, or interpreting, or just thinking?
>>>“If or when the U.S. believed that Canada’s possession of nuclear technology was a threat to our security, we would act. So far, it does not.”
Where does this say anything about attacking Canada. (BTW: How much efforts would that take, anyway?) The point of the above is not that Canada would be likely to threaten U.S. security (again, what could Canada do? It’s too wimpy to even TRY to safeguard its own national integrity, all it can do is fight against their own people’s free speech)
Anyway, the point is that WHAT EVER nation posed a threat to the U.S., we would be obligated and right in acting to curb that threat.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: War has NOT been declared against Canada.
That is all...
If you ever wonder why there’s so much animosity toward the U.S., throughout the world — you need do nothing more than study a mirror.
Blah, blah, blah...
I see you’ve stopped trying to address the issues...
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