Posted on 07/07/2008 7:29:09 AM PDT by hecht
US Removes Iraq Uranium-MORE EVIDENCE OF SADDAM WMD PROGRAM
Its been all over the press for the past few days. 550 METRIC TONS (that's BIGGER than 5 Rosie O'Donnells) were removed from Bagdad by the US Government:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — 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.
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. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
The name"Yellowcake" sounds benign, like you can throw some chocolate frosting on it and serve it at a birthday party. But this yellowcake can be enriched to be used in nuclear plants or worse Nuclear weapons
The question arises why is everyone treating this like a regular UPS delivery. Sure, it was clandestine until it got to Canada. But why is no one asking the question, WHAT WAS SADDAM HUSSEIN DOING WITH 550 METRIC TONS OF YELLOWCAKE? He Knew it wasn't eatable, do you think that he was using it as part of a , gee I don't know, WEAPONS PROGRAM?
In November 2006 the NY Times reported that Saddam was close to Nukes (yes that New York Times):
Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.
European diplomats said this week that some of those nuclear documents on the Web site were identical to the ones presented to the United Nations Security Council in late 2002, as America got ready to invade Iraq. But unlike those on the Web site, the papers given to the Security Council had been extensively edited, to remove sensitive information on unconventional arms.
The deletions, the diplomats said, had been done in consultation with the United States and other nuclear-weapons nations. Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which ran the nuclear part of the inspections, told the Security Council in late 2002 that the deletions were “consistent with the principle that proliferation-sensitive information should not be released.”
In Europe, a senior diplomat said atomic experts there had studied the nuclear documents on the Web site and judged their public release as potentially dangerous. “It’s a cookbook,” said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of his agency’s rules. “If you had this, it would short-circuit a lot of things.”
Ray E. Kidder, a senior nuclear physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, an arms design center, said “some things in these documents would be helpful” to nations aspiring to develop nuclear weapons and should have remained secret.
So if Iraq had the plans and they had the Uranium, It sounds awfully like a WMD program to me....
I still don’t understand how there’s any controversy regarding Iraq’s WMD programs. Many were physically verified by UN weapons inspectors, including thousands of liters of anthrax solution. He is known to have nerve gassed thousands of his own people - nerve gas is a WMD. I hope you’ve all seen the videos of the Kurdish towns that were gassed. Anyone who thinks that removing Saddam was a bad idea is insane.
I think the legitimate criticisms of Bush revolve around communication, money management (both with the war and domestically), his failure to secure the known WMDs in Iraq, his failure to support historical conservative principles such as small government, limited spending, secure borders, the rule of law, and a sane energy policy. So, there are some real issues - just none of the ones the Left enjoys trumpeting. ;-)
McCain ‘08! HE SUCKS LESS!
That is it was known and accounted for by the UN inspection teams. As a result, the MSM discounted it and considered it part of the proof that Saddam had given up his nuclear ambitions.
Out of all the people who have called George Bush a liar, Bill CXlinto is not among them.
Some leftists tried that one on me last night and that may well be the case, however, their story for the past several years is that there was no yellow-cake uranium in Iraq and there never was. I had several tell me precisely that. So, the discovery of yellow-cake in Iraq, blows a major hole in their narrative of “Bush Lied and People Died”. They won’t admit to this, of course, but this proves they were playing politics with Iraq and weren’t even slightly concerned about the truth of matters. Politics first, the safety of this country: a distant second.
You are correct.
BTTT
Obviously, Bush snuck that crap into Iraq in the first quarter of ‘01 so that later he could ‘lie’ and people would die. Brilliant strategist.
And what's his name...that chief inspector said: "Unless he takes us to the stuff, we'll never find it".
Then add in that he said all the materials were there to make the stuff. All it takes is dual use components....and they're hidden in plain sight.
People STILL don't realize how close Saddam was to getting out from under the UN.
Going to Iraq...Bush did the right thing at the right time....
The damn "conditional" treaty for the Gulf War was nothing more than "time" for Saddam and the evils he plotted.
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