Posted on 10/01/2004 10:52:07 AM PDT by doggieboy
"That's exactly where we find ourselves today. There's a sense of American occupation. The only building that was guarded when the troops when into Baghdad was the oil ministry. We didn't guard the nuclear facilities."
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Kerry mentioned twice last night "nuclear facilites" in Iraq. What nuclear facilities?
Wasn't it a storage facility at al-Tuwaitha(sp)?
The Baby Milk Factory?
You are spot on. It's been brought up and it's a doozie. I don't know if Rush covered this, but he repeated it TWICE (to my recollection).
I thought he said Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction and that they didn't have uranium.... hmm
The oil industry is Iraq's life blood - it's their whole economy. It would have been a major blunder if we had not secured these facilities - even without cash.
He’s half way telling the truth, as usual. I don’t recall the names, but there was a middle America local TV reporter who filed reports just after the fall of Baghdad that he rolled in with Marines to some nuclear facility had a secret underground facility and plutonium. Turns out that it was low level yellowcake, and the underground facility was well know by the UN. The yellowcake was also known by the UN, but had the UN seals ripped off by looters prior to the Marines rolling in.
Securing this facility wasn’t a top priority with us. Securing the oil fields was, so much so that we sent in Special Forces to take out Saddam’s demolition operations prior to the start of the war. It was an excellent decision and saved Iraq’s oil production capacity. Too bad that point wasn’t driven home, but high sight is 20-20.
What about the Nazi Death Camp his visited in Russia?
Exactly. I was hoping that Bush would just have looked over at Kerry and said
"Senator, the Heck are you talking about???"
Nobody had a clear answer.
Thanks for the clarification on wording. I thought he said plants. You quote "facilities". Note the plural. Implying that there could have been several scattered throughout the country.
Regardless of the facts, his intention was clearly to mislead and make our tactics and strategy appear inept.
I thought the left was more concerned about saving the
art museum at any cost...
the widespread art looting story turned out to be BS too.
BUSH: Let me -- I'm not exactly sure what you mean, passes the global test, you take preemptive action if you pass a global test. My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.
This is evidence that Kerry knows that Saddam had WMDs.
Israel bombed Iraq's nuke plants out of business. Evidently, Kerry doesn't know that. And .. one of the Israeli pilots was the Astronaut who was killed when the Columbia burned up on re-entry. You'd think Kerry would remember that since he's so into America's bad news.
Also .. the USA just sold bunker-buster bombs to Israel .. Hmmmm? Should Iran, Syria and NK be worried ..?? I sure hope so!!
Feel sorry for Kerry. Agent Orange must be affecting his memory.
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