Posted on 10/24/2008 6:48:28 AM PDT by NCDragon
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.
bump
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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