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Media Ignore Saddam's Uranium Bombshell
News Max ^ | Feb. 20, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 02/20/2006 6:15:06 AM PST by conservativecorner

Tape recordings released over the weekend show that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program at least as recently as 2000 - but the press has decided the bombshell development isn't newsworthy.

Speaking at the Intelligence Group Summit in Arlington, Va., Saddam tapes translator Bill Tierney revealed that in one recorded conversation, the Iraqi dictator can be heard discussing a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation.

Though U.S. weapons inspectors found that 1.8 tons of Saddam's 500 ton uranium stockpile had been partially enriched, they failed to turn up any evidence of an ongoing enrichment program.

Instead, Iraq Survey Group Chief Charles Duelfer concluded that Baghdad terminated its nuclear weapons program no later than 1995.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arlingtonva; billtierney; duelfer; duelferreport; enricheduranium; intelligencesummit; iraq; isg; newsblackout; saddam; saddamtapes; wmd
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1 posted on 02/20/2006 6:15:06 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
The VP Cheney's accident hunting is much more important to the WH press corp who are "proxies" for you and me!??!
2 posted on 02/20/2006 6:18:56 AM PST by danamco
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To: conservativecorner
Media Ignore Saddam's Uranium Bombshell

Well, they conveniently ignored Gore's traitorist Saudi speech, too.

3 posted on 02/20/2006 6:19:02 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: conservativecorner

How many of the MSM have yet to even mention Georges Sada, or "Saddam's Secrets?"


4 posted on 02/20/2006 6:21:17 AM PST by Ed_in_NJ (Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
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To: conservativecorner

What a surprise! That is why I never watch them.


5 posted on 02/20/2006 6:23:06 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: conservativecorner
Media Ignore Saddam's Uranium Bombshell ---

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What is to be expected.... as Alan Simpson said on FoxNews yesterday morning .......... see tagline.

6 posted on 02/20/2006 6:24:03 AM PST by beyond the sea (Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
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To: conservativecorner
"but the press has decided the bombshell development isn't newsworthy"......

In other words, it did not fit into their anti-Bush and anti-war agendas. The God's honest truth, plain and simple. And they know it too.
7 posted on 02/20/2006 6:24:55 AM PST by stm (It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
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To: danamco
the WH press corp who are "proxies" for you and me!??

LOL ....... David Gregory could use an enema.

8 posted on 02/20/2006 6:25:00 AM PST by beyond the sea (Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
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To: conservativecorner
Here's a description of plasma separation methods for uranium. It sounds like a fiendishly difficult and expensive method for uranium enrichment.
9 posted on 02/20/2006 6:30:41 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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To: conservativecorner

bump


10 posted on 02/20/2006 6:31:27 AM PST by lesser_satan
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To: conservativecorner

Today's press corp
11 posted on 02/20/2006 6:31:59 AM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: conservativecorner

What else is new? They've to this day also ignored Algore's incessant anti-American bombthrowing rhetoric as he was in the cozy confines of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


12 posted on 02/20/2006 6:33:45 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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To: stm
In other words, it did not fit into their anti-Bush and anti-war agendas. The God's honest truth, plain and simple. And they know it too.

Absolutely correct. It is patently obvious that - in the aggregate - the MSM has one particular world view philosophy and they report, or fail to report, anything that may alter that carefully managed and protected philosophical template. It's just that simple. Once you see and understand this you understand the whole destructive mess that is the MSM.

13 posted on 02/20/2006 6:38:26 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: beyond the sea
What is to be expected.... as Alan Simpson said on FoxNews yesterday morning .......... see tagline.

Blaming the public for the way Media covers news is like blaming men for women's fashions.

14 posted on 02/20/2006 6:40:55 AM PST by papertyger
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To: Obadiah

The MSM has chosen sides.


15 posted on 02/20/2006 6:42:25 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: papertyger
Blaming the public for the way Media covers news is like blaming men for women's fashions.

LOL

If we guys were responsibile for women's fashions, I think they would be walking around nude with backpacks full of beer, a cup-rack, and tap in ready avail.
17 posted on 02/20/2006 6:47:01 AM PST by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: danamco

The WH press-corps and the MSM are a proxy for the DNC... and they've functioned in that capacity since Vietnam/Watergate.


18 posted on 02/20/2006 6:51:25 AM PST by johnny7 (“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
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To: rrsafety
Is this true? That's not good to either read or hear about him in this light. No wonder other media outlets are not touching this story.

However, I did hear and I thought ABC news confirmed that the a House committtee had confirmed the tapes to be the real deal!

19 posted on 02/20/2006 6:51:40 AM PST by hawkaw
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Oh ... I see the moderator removed the post I responded too. So I guess that means the tapes are legit as the House had said.


20 posted on 02/20/2006 6:53:46 AM PST by hawkaw
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