Posted on 10/24/2008 6:48:28 AM PDT by NCDragon
MAYBE BUSH IS NOT SUCH A BAD GUY AFTERALL. TOO BAD THE NEWS PEOPLE DON'T TELL THE TRUTH.
This has been flying under the radar. Read the MSNBC article and check the truthorfiction.com site. The TorF version is shown below. This event is factual. I have an increased respect for President Bush. He has taken the heat of being called a liar and a war monger for 5 years while he kept his silence to protect the people of the world. This is truly a display of selfless honor. On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq. The opening paragraph is as follows:
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.
See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, Bush lied. Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam's yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy.
It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.
This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam's nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would report the story. Once the AP released t he story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.
This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush's war motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, 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.
Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy. Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush lied. As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe Wilson and his wife.
Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger. The CIA and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose but needed proof.
During his trip to Niger, Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in 'expanding commercial relations' for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake.
Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger.
However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 2003.
Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush.
Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the yellowcake from Niger. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime minister's statements.
It was a simple tactic really. If the far-left and their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger, it would undermine President Bush's credibility and give them more cause for asking what other lies he may have told.
Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the prime minister's statements and concluded all by himself that the claim of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was 'unequivocally wrong.' Curiously, the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.
Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that the Bush administration outed her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage -- no friend of the Bush administration -- who leaked Plame's identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years.
The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media and their left-wing friends on the blogosphere engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam's uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit they were wrong? Don't count on it. The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam's uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get.
As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that, 'Bush lied,' we should tell them to, 'Have the yellowcake and eat it too.' This story was verified, if you want to check it for yourself, click on the links below.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334
hmmmmm
large sand beams, eh?
Lots of Elmer’s...
——”berm”—which is probably what was meant, is a mining term , not forund on some on-line dictionaries-—
Yes. It’s the latest in beam weaponry. The weapons’ designers figured out that one resource in abundance in the desert is sand, so they developed a weapon that shoots a narrow beam of sand at a velocity approaching C. Disintegrates anything it hits. Truth XOR Fiction.
Yeah. I don’t know about mining, but berms were used as tank defenses in WWII. Basically a wall of earth too steep for a tank to climb.
While I wish this were completely true, according to snopes, the yellowcake that was removed was “decades old” and had been in Iraq for years and was known to the UN inspectors...in other words NOT the yellowcake that Pres. Bush was speaking of in his SOTU speech.
The correct use of the word “berm” is not the issue here. The issue is, why didn’t Bush release the information about finding the yellowcake after our forces had secured it? He can’t seriously have been worried about terrorists stealing 550 metric tons of the stuff with our military guarding it. Why didn’t he release the information later? Why didn’t he release it a few weeks ago when it landed in Canada? And why did it go to Canada anyway? This information could have helped the country and the party had it been released in a timely manner and used to silence those who sneered at our war effort. Bush’s reticence is incomprehensible.
Bush is not a bad guy. Bush is a good guy. He just has a knack of ticking off 90 percent of the country including me.
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If you keyword yellowcake, you’ll find a number of threads here on FR about this shipment to Canada.
It wasn’t publicized much for the general public, but we got it on FR.
Bush is the bad guy because he believed in the bi-partisanship of those he appointed to his cabinet in an effort to reach across the isle.
Joe the Plumber TRUMPS Powell the traitor!
The Bush Administration was completely imcompetent from a public relations standpoint once Ari Fleisher left. Time after time, I was astounded at how the MSM was allowed to spin every issue with virtually no meaningful counter being offered from the Bush Administration. And we are in a really bad spot right now because of this. The left’s lies have become accepted as true and we might have a communist in the White House a few months from now.
Snopes isn’t all that accurate all the time...if Bush were acting to keep the 550 tons of enriched uranium a secret, even snopes might not have been privy to all the facts!
That yellow cake was known about and catalogued for years before the war in Iraq. It has been shipped to Canada for reprocessing.
An earlier poster pointed out that it was not connected to Bush’s remarks, although what the President actually said was correct: Saddam tried again to purchase yellow cake.
Wilson was a liar, but this is a red herring.
Snopes isn’t all that accurate all the time...if Bush were acting to keep the 550 tons of enriched uranium a secret, even snopes might not have been privy to all the facts!
So following the MSM media your a accepting that Iraq had yellow cake but the Iraqi government never sought it in Niger? Ok.
Bush is not your problem, because when they found a huge weapon cache, it was Al Queda who raided and stole many of the weapons. Being former military, it is understandable that this had to be kept secret, because being in the middle east our military would have been under attack by many countries wanting that ‘yellowcake’ ...it is the WMD that had to be moved cautiously, or we would have had Syria, Iran, and not only Al Queda but every terrorist group in world in there trying to take it. To make a nuclear bomb, they have to have it. So Bush is a hero in my opinion for not opening his mouth, that’s a real President who won’t let his reputation stand in the way of the world’s safety. GOD BLESS BUSH, and I’m glad I never Bashed him!
Ticking off 90% of the country? Who are the 10% that are happy with him? The illegals?
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