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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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To: conservativecorner
The VP Cheney's accident hunting is much more important to the WH press corp who are "proxies" for you and me!??!
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:18:56 AM PST
by
danamco
To: conservativecorner
Media Ignore Saddam's Uranium BombshellWell, they conveniently ignored Gore's traitorist Saudi speech, too.
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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)
To: conservativecorner
How many of the MSM have yet to even mention Georges Sada, or "Saddam's Secrets?"
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:21:17 AM PST
by
Ed_in_NJ
(Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
To: conservativecorner
What a surprise! That is why I never watch them.
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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 .)
To: conservativecorner
Media Ignore Saddam's Uranium Bombshell ---
*****
What is to be expected.... as Alan Simpson said on FoxNews yesterday morning .......... see tagline.
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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.")
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.
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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)
To: danamco
the WH press corp who are "proxies" for you and me!??LOL ....... David Gregory could use an enema.
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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.")
To: conservativecorner
Here's a description of
plasma separation methods for uranium. It sounds like a fiendishly difficult and expensive method for uranium enrichment.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:30:41 AM PST
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
To: conservativecorner
To: conservativecorner
Today's press corp
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:31:59 AM PST
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:33:45 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:38:26 AM PST
by
Obadiah
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.
To: Obadiah
The MSM has chosen sides.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:42:25 AM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
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.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:47:01 AM PST
by
Paloma_55
(Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:51:25 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
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!
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:51:40 AM PST
by
hawkaw
To: hawkaw
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.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:53:46 AM PST
by
hawkaw
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