Urban Legends About the Iraq War

The American Enterprise Online ^ | 11/16/05

[rlmorel]

GREAT!!!!

BTTTTT!

[Cacique]

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[wizardoz]

Right. But this is hard evidence. Why in your opinion doesn't the administration shout this stuff every chance they get?

I have no idea! Sometimes I wonder if they just think, "Well we're too busy doing the real job to bother refuting extremists." I like Dubya but I don't think he understands the PR situation very well.

[Bahbah]

Excellent post, Valin. Copied and saved.

[djfox1]

Wizard or Jim,

Do either of you know whether the 1.77 tons of enriched uranium had been, in fact, declared previously by Saddam? Moonbats seem to think we knew in advance about the uranium, but I can't find independent confirming evidence about whether this was the case.

It certainly seems to me that if in fact the enriched uranium was NOT declared and unknown to us before the war, then it's game-over for the "there was no WMD" crowd.

[djfox1]

I've said this before and I will continue to say that Scott McClellan is a HORRIBLE press secretary - he stands there looking like a sweaty porky pig and just comes off as way too defensive.

Mr. President, puh-LEEZE call up Ari, offer him whatever it will take to get him back, and I guarantee you will see polls start to move in your favor in very short order.

[IronJack]

bookmark to refute the tired talking points of rudderless leftists.

[Peach]

Saved to my Iraq file.

[jaydubya2]

"I think we found 500 tons of uranium, 1.77 tons of which was enriched.
Can anyone provide a link to an article that documents this find? I've been searching and can seem to find it. Thanks.

[lil_rebbitzen]

Hmmmm....very interesting. I'm sending this URL to my other comp so I can bookmark it. Better yet, I'll probably print it out for the next time I deal with liberals.
Thank you for putting this out.

[Willie Green]

The President argued the importance of democracy taking root in Iraq before the war began.

Nevertheless, this is at best a secondary objective when viewed within the context of the Admisitration's overall foreign policy.
Bottom line: ANY form of stable government would be acceptable as long as the supply of oil to the global market is not disrupted.

[djfox1]

"Nevertheless, this is at best a secondary objective when viewed within the context of the Admisitration's overall foreign policy. Bottom line: ANY form of stable government would be acceptable as long as the supply of oil to the global market is not disrupted."

My moonbat/bs detection meter just pegged....coincidence?

Friend, just as the liberals were wrong about the first Gulf war being "about oil," they are wrong again about Iraq being "about oil." If it were about oil, we'd have confiscated oil fields in Iraq and Kuwait by now. We'd have demanded the Iraqis pay for the war by providing us cheap or free oil. None of these things happened. The "no blood for oil" idiots can continue to scream this meme about a "war for oil" but facts will remain their enemy.

[MNJohnnie]

ANY form of stable government would be acceptable as long as the supply of oil to the global market is not disrupted.

Gee Willie. What was the role of Oil in 9-11-01? Such a pity you are so aggressive at spewing forth your 9-10-01 political dogma. Sorry Willie but the viability of your Neo-Isolationist political views died with the Twin Towers.

Th absurdity of this "War for Oil" propaganda lie is proven by Chavez and Venezuela. We get about 6 times as much oil from Venezuela as the Mid East. If the free flow of Oil governed policy we would of invaded Venezuela, not Iraq. But that is right, in the Pat Buchananites fever swamp reality doesn't exits until Pat tells his acolytes like Willie what it is.

[A message]

I went and googled this as "1.77 tone uranium" but accidentally misspelled ton as tone. It came up with all kinds of hits.

From what I have looked at so far, this report came out around 6/23/04 and was reported by the BBC as well as a number of blog sites. Will continue to look for a good link to post.

[A message]

I think this is the link we are looking for.

link to 1.77 ton enriched uranium

[jwpjr]

re: I like Dubya but I don't think he understands the PR situation very well.

I think it might be that he understands PR very well and realizes that voters have a very short attention span. It's still a year until the mid-term elections and in the political world that's an eternity. I suspect he knows the situation is improving in Iraq and by the time the elections roll around it will be very evident who was right and who was wrong in all of this.

Now, that having been said, let me hasten to add that I too am anxious for him to do a round of industrial strength of name taking and butt kicking.

I think he knows a lot more about the real situation in Iraq than any of his critics. Could be that he is looking forward to rubbing his critics noses in it when all is said and done.

The people who advise Dubya on PR and handle the details of his PR life seem to have been pretty good so far. I am (reluctantly) willing to wait and see!

[CodeToad]

bookmark & bump

[thackney]

bump to bookmark

[Willie Green]

My moonbat/bs detection meter just pegged....coincidence?

No coincidence... it is accurately indicating that you're full of it.

Friend, just as the liberals were wrong about the first Gulf war being "about oil," they are wrong again about Iraq being "about oil."

Oil is the only strategic interest that we have in the Gulf region.
If it wasn't for oil, we'd ignore the feuding Islamic tribes just like we ignore the Hutu and Tutsis.

[hudsonohio]

You are right sir. It's nice to know there are people who think like I do (Free Republic helps me keep my sanity) but until an MSM network turns away from the Dark Side, we won't get through to enough of the country.