Posted on 02/15/2016 3:45:55 AM PST by VitacoreVision
NO MORE BUSHS’
Except for the 500 TONS of yellowcake. Yeah, there’s that.
Some were ordered to be silent about their exposure. Others ignored, criticized. Pentagon actually apologized for their behavior.
Agent Orange redux...Gulf War Syndrome redux.
Should read NOW being compensated
They forgot about the yellow cake.
“These are not the WMD you are looking for.”
According to July 5, 2008, AP report, a senior U.S. official said that the 550 tons of yellowcake, which is purified, but unenriched uranium oxide from uranium ore, had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991.
that yellow cake was already known about and stored by the inspectors long before,, it had to do with the nuclear program from the early 80’s that didn’t work out because the Israelis blew the reactors up.. it had nothing to do with the invasion.. next?
By the time the UN arguments and all the rest of the hooha had gone down, anyone who did not know the US was going to invade Saddam’s Iraq was living in the deep woods, was in a coma, or had recently died.
During the month or so that the process took, multiple long convoys of trucks (semis) under Russian escort where tracked, monitored, and watched by Spec Ops as they left Iraq and disappeared into the Bekka Valley; no attempt was made to stop them or learn of the trucks’ contents.
It is more than likely that the real chemical weapons (that all the world’s intelligence agencies were reporting as existing in Iraq) were transferred rapidly out in order to stop the impending US invasion. It is also likely that the chemical weapons turned over by Assad a while back were those same weapons.
Now of course, Hillary’s stalking horse has made hindsight going back over a dozen years a campaign issue, further dividing the voters and demonstrating that there are no adults among the men vying for the job, just hacks. Naturally, supporters of one hack or the other will not only jump on me, but further demonstrate that they - like whichever hack they support - are the putty Democrats’ use to complete their playbook plans.
Then, we opted to play nice instead of crushing the enemy we had selected - real cluster-"fudge" in the end.
Everyone knew Iraq had chemical weapons going back to the mid-1980s. They were used in the Iran-Iraq war and then again the Kurds in 1988.
Did we invade Iraq because of 15 - 20 year-old chemical weapons stockpiles? I don’t believe any evidence was found of an ongoing chemical weapons program.
And others have posted that the yellow cake was leftover from the early ‘80s nuclear program ended by the Israeli’s bombing of Iraq’s only nuclear plant.
I think the claim for going to war with Iraq had to do with ongoing WMD programs, not leftovers from the 1980s.
The cake is a lie.
Niger uranium forgeries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries
The Niger uranium forgeries were forged documents initially revealed by SISMI (Italian military intelligence), which seem to depict an attempt made by Saddam Hussein in Iraq to purchase yellowcake uranium powder from Niger during the Iraq disarmament crisis.
On the basis of these documents and other indicators, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom asserted that Iraq violated United Nations Iraq sanctions by attempting to procure nuclear material for the purpose of creating weapons of mass destruction.
Why is no one mentioning all the weapons that went into Syria that were supposed to qualify as WMD’s?
Years ago that was a dominant view here on FR...........
bkmk. bttt
245T, My dad used to use that stuff (and I was exposed when I was a kid)..
Has there ever been any credible evidence that such weapons were actually in Syria? With all the intelligence sources the US and Israel has in that region, you'd think there would be evidence of what the large number of tractor/trailer rigs supposed carried, and where it was stored.
Yelllowcake was to line the swimming pool?
The bio-weapon cooker COULD NOT BE REAL—the drain mechanism was too small and would only FILL ONE SHELL AT A TIME.
Hence-”no ONGOING system.......................”
Israel knows the truth and they aren’t telling.
The only reason it is in the news now is that the media knows the WMD issue makes Republicans look bad and want to divert away from negative Hilary publicity by focusing on negative Bush publicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
http://spectator.org/articles/60689/new-york-times-rediscovers-weapons-mass-destruction-iraq
Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s Defense Minister, was Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Force during OIF. Gen. Ya’alon subsequently said much the same as Gen. Clapper: on the war’s eve, Saddam “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria. No one went to Syria to find it.†That view was echoed by Iraqi general Georges Sada, former Deputy Chief of Saddam’s Air Force.
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