FR Columnists'Corner - "Where's my yellowcake?!" by JohnHuang2

Free Republic Network ^ | 8-3-03 | JohnHuang2

[dr_who_2]

The president is getting increasingly more and more questions from up-in-arm left leaning reporters.

In other news, I'm rather fond of johnny cake (no sugar added) with margerine, some sliced onions, and a big mess a' pinto beans cooked with ham hock. Maybe some wilted salad on the side. MMmmmmm-mmmm!

[dixiechick2000]

"The crux of the White House scandal? The lack of a White House cover-up!"

I'm roiled, I tell ya!

"...he called "Lied" a "three-letter word and "deceit" a "five-letter word." The candidate maintains he's ready for prime-time."

This from the man who was President of Florida...twice!

Excellent, JH2! It's up to your usual superior standards!

Thank you for posting this, BobJ.

[Big Giant Head]

Roiling good time bump!


Better than an Onion article!

[Tamzee]

Wonderful column, thanks! If more mainstream Americans would look at the summary of Democrat activity since 9/11, I think we would have a huge and permanent conservative majority.

[Once-Ler]

In other news, I'm rather fond of johnny cake (no sugar added) with margerine, some sliced onions, and a big mess a' pinto beans cooked with ham hock. Maybe some wilted salad on the side. MMmmmmm-mmmm!

I just saved a ton of money by switching to Geico.

[Once-Ler]

Nice column JohnHuang2. You are an exceptional writer. Funny and informative. It is always a pleasure to read your posts, this column was no exception.

I particularly liked the JFK missile gap typo into the credibility gap "rhetoric and timid policies" into we need more Firefighters to scare Al-Qaeda.... F U N N Y !

[dr_who_2]

That's what Bush ought to bring up at his next press conference the next time they ask him about the price of yellowcake in Niger.

[ravingnutter]

(Backing Democrats' claim that charges Saddam sought nuclear weapons are based on forgeries, a whole bunch of forgery equipment was unearthed in the backyard of an Iraqi scientist in late June. The forgery equipment -- centrifuge parts to separate heavy and light molecule forgeries for enriching deadly uranium forgeries -- was ordered hidden from U.N. Forgery Inspectors by Saddam's son Qusay, according Mahdi Obeidi, the Iraqi scientist. The concealment was a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on Saddam to disclose all possible forgery equipment).

John is missing very important ingredients in this yellow cake mix...the first was provided by Stephen Hadley, Bush's #2 security guy...

An unsigned CIA memo on Oct. 5 advised that "the CIA had reservations about the British reporting" on Iraq's alleged attempts in Niger, Hadley said. A second memo, sent on Oct. 6, elaborated on the CIA's doubts, describing "some weakness in the evidence," such as the fact that Iraq already had a large stock of uranium and probably wouldn't need more, Hadley said.

FR Post

Then add this second ingredient provided by the IAEA's own inspection reports...

Sept 30, 2002 - Several Iraqi nuclear weapons facilities and much equipment were indeed dismantled or destroyed by U.N. inspectors between 1991 and 1998. However, substantial and significant issues about Iraq’s ability to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program remained unresolved when the inspectors left the country.

Dolley, citing IAEA’s own inspection reports as documentation, said: “Iraq has never surrendered to inspectors its two completed designs for a nuclear bomb, nuclear-bomb components such as explosive lenses and neutron initiators that it is known to have possessed, or almost any documentation of its efforts to enrich uranium to bomb-grade using gas centrifuges, devices which are small and readily concealed from reconnaissance.”[5]

Moreover, IAEA has previously conceded that Iraq’s weaponization R&D---small-scale technical research devoted to the design of a nuclear bomb’s components---is not readily detected by means of inspections. IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei stated in 1998 that “no matter how comprehensive the inspection, any country-wide verification process, in Iraq or anywhere else, has a degree of uncertainty that aims to verify the absence of readily concealable objects such as small amounts of nuclear material or weapons components.”[6]

The IAEA’s own guidelines for the safeguarding of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium gives the conversion time for transforming these materials into weapons components as on the order of seven to ten days or one to three weeks, depending on the form the materials are in (metal, oxide or nitrate) when the materials are acquired by means of diversion or theft.[7] Thus, Iraq could be capable of producing a nuclear weapon in less than a month with sufficient diverted or stolen fissile material if it has managed to fabricate and conceal all of the non-nuclear components of a weapon.

Nuclear Control Institute

Why wasn't THAT info in the SOTU? IMHO, Hadley should be fired for his stupidity and the CIA needs to desperately clean house.

[Buggman]

OMG! I haven't laughed like that in a loooong time. John, you're a genius, and I hope that you don't mind that I'll be sending this to all my family and friends. Bob, thanks for posting this.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks -- glad you liked it ;-)

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you, thank you :-)

[JohnHuang2]

Why, thank you, friend

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you very much, friend.

[FlyVet]

Democrats, who demand that Bush invade Liberia,

Not to mention, those enlightened and sophisticated Euros and the UN. "Hey, you Americans, we hate your guts, but don't take it personally. Go get'em! We're right behind you...right behind this big, thick wall. Let us know when it's over."

[ChewedGum]

Yet, for all the Democrat bravado, I don't think it's Bush hiding in caves and tunnels, nor is it Bush disguised as a woman in Baghdad, writing angry letters to the editor, firing-off cheap-quality audio-tapes for friendly media, which spouts off about how bin Laden and Saddam are really winning, as Democrats drool.

It is truly amazing how ignorant so many Americans (and almost all media members) are to simple yet relevant contrasts like this eloquent statement.

Gum

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, friend.

[rudypoot]

Someone told me that Kerry is a vietnam vet. Is that true? hehe