[johnqueuepublic]

Required reading by all, everything you need to know about "uraniumgate." Good investigative piece.

[Support Free Republic]

SHOW JIM THE MONEY!!!!

[Madcelt]

Ping, and Bump!

[My2Cents]

Don't confuse the naysayers with the facts.

[arkfreepdom]

Did anyone else see E. D. on Fox and Friends this morning ask Sen. Bob Grahm why he stated in Oct. 2002 that Iraq was seeking uranium. He mumbled like an old fool. This ain't over yet.

[RobFromGa]

What was Saddam doing with 550 tons of bomb making material, approximately 250 tons of which had been obtained from the very country mentioned in the President's State of the Union Address?

I agree that this is a good article, but at least one careless mistake: Bush said "Africa" not "Niger" in SOTU.

[FairOpinion]

Excellent article!

There is nothing like specific facts to kill all the accusations, but they need to be repeated often, because the Democrats never met facts they couldn't ignore and twist.

I also would like to add, that Bush in his SOTU address never said, that Saddam bought uranium from Niger, but that he "sought" uranium. The Democrats keep misquoting Bush's statement, to try to make their accusations more potent.
But when faced with the truth, their accusations are pathetic.

However, I wish that the Bush administration would coe outand point out these facts and that more journalists would do their homework, as William A. Mayer, the writer of this article has done.

[Gritty]

Good article.

The only thing he left out is Great Britain still stands by the veracity of it's intelligence, the intelligence GW Bush refers to in his speech. The single instance of misinformation (probably purposeful) on the Niger yellowcake is outweighed by genuine British and American intelligence as yet unrevealed in public.

The President's statement would undoubtedly stand solidly as truth in a Court of Law.

[JoeSixPack1]

It smacks of a terrible desperation on their part and is a wondrous and beautiful thing to behold!

And the crowd goes wild......:-)

[kevkrom]

Good investigative piece.

It's kind of sad to think that by today's standards, you're right. In reality, this is the barely more than the minimum amount of research a reporter should be putting into this type of story -- the fact that only a few do is a damning indictment on the "profession".

[mgc1122]

What struck me most about Mr. Mayer's article was this ...

To any but the most dull - or more likely, ideologically blinded, partisan - the fact that Niger and Saddam had an ongoing nuclear arrangement spanning over 20 years should have been a red flag, cautioning restraint in any criticism of what Mr. Bush said in his national address.

Precisely. In the race to save the failing socialist agenda, facts are neither needed or desired. What doesn't exist in fact, can be created as a believable work of fiction.

It all comes down to power - who has it and who is desperate to get it back.

And the "who" which don'tt have it are perfectly content and more than willing to do anything including drag this nation down should serve as a sharp contrast to those with eyes & not afraid to see for themselves.

[Spiff]

Holy Crap!!

You mean that the DemocRATs are making all of this up!? That they're inventing a scandal out of whole cloth to damage the credibility of the United States in order to hurt a Republican President!? Say it isn't so

[Grampa Dave]

This is a great find! I have bookmarked it and will ping those who should know about it.

Thank you!

[Grampa Dave]

Some excellent required reading on Nigerscam!

[Grampa Dave]

fyi

[Grampa Dave]

Another Louisville slugger to use on the whining third party scumbags trying to blame our president with this DNC created NigerScam.

[Grampa Dave]

Fyi and your indexing skills.

[Spiff]

Go here. You will find stuff like this:

I - Components of Iraq's nuclear weapon programme

Acquisition of weapons usable material

Indigenous production and overt procurement of uranium compounds

Imported 4,006 kg of natural uranium and 6,005 kg of depleted uranium (DU) from Italy in 1979
Imported 1,767 kg low enriched uranium (LEU) from Italy in 1982
Imported almost 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russia and France
Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980
Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982
Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981
Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982
Imported 24,260 kg of uranium dioxide from Brazil between 1981-82
Produced 109 tonnes of uranium in 168 tonnes of yellowcake at Al Qaim uranium recovery plant, which was constructed between 1982-84
Produced 420 drums containing 99,457 kg uranium dioxide at Al Jesira uranium conversion facility

Produced UF6 at Rashdiya Engineering and Design Centre
Processed uranium dioxide to produce UF4, uranium metal and UF6 at Tuwaitha Chemical Laboratories
Processed UO2  and yellowcake to produce UO2, U3O8, UO3, UO4, UF4, and uranium metal at Tuwaitha Experimental Research Laboratory for Fuel Fabrication
Processed UO2 to produce UCl4 at Tuwaitha Chemical Engineering Research laboratories

[lysie]

Hmmm!!

Through the years I have learned that those who do the finger pointing ...without facts... are 99% of the time the ones who are doing what they accuse.

Great article. Thanks!

[swheats]

2. They have ignored the very clear facts surrounding the case, facts which – far from supporting any assertion that it was the intention of the Bush administration to stampede a nation into war – reveal a very long, and independently verifiable, Iraqi pattern of seeking out and obtaining the most critical nuclear bomb making component – uranium - either on the open market or clandestinely from underground sources for nearly a quarter-of-a-century.

Maybe someone can explain why Saddam would need millions of dollars in his petty cash fund stashed around Iraq. Some of this stuff you really don't have to be a rocket scientist to connect the dots.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Anyone ping you, yet? Can you think of anyone else who might be interested in this?