Posted on 07/17/2005 2:21:36 PM PDT by wagglebee
No. What Bush needs to do is have the 500-tons of Iraqi yellow cake delivered to Joe Wilson's house. THAT would be a photo-op!
However, Wilson claiming that Cheney sent him to Niger is also on this site, a demonstration that Wilson LIED hen he said he never claimed this. So we still have some good information.
Look further down the page for the January, 2004 date for primary appearances.
Look further down the page for the January, 2004 date for primary appearances.
Dang. I had sent it to 3 bloggers.
I've sent them a correction.
I wish to point out that Pres. Bush said, "Africa" not Niger in his speech. I keep seeing that mistake repeatedly. It is an inaccurate quote when Niger is used.
The date doesn't change the fact that he was still claiming Cheney sent him to Niger. Of course, the campaign could have written it in 2004 from their own knowledge of press coverage.
But, that's a point I've been making all along. Even if Wilson was careful never to have said the words himself, the Kerry campaign and every Rat shill was all over the airwaves claiming Cheney had sent him to Niger. And he never corrected them until it came out that his wife had done it.
Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address
snip
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.
Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.
The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary, he is deceiving.
From intelligence sources, we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves.
http://tinyurl.com/51hb
Take a look at the bottom of the linked document. There's a January 13, 2004 date listed there.
I think you wrote a blog about this at the Finest.
Luckily, Iraq didn't have even the small number of centrifuges necessary to get the job done.
Or did they?
The physicist tapped by Saddam to run his centrifuge program says that after the first Gulf War, the program was largely dismantled. But it wasn't destroyed.
In fact, according to what he wrote in his 2004 book, "The Bomb in My Garden," Dr. Mahdi Obeidi told U.S. interrogators: "Saddam kept funding the IAEC [Iraq Atomic Energy Commission] from 1991 ... until the war in 2003."
Bump.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444981/posts
With the country rocked by the insecurity, Iraq's chief investigating judge Raed Juhi said late last night a date for the trial of Saddam and his top aides would soon be announced.
He said charges had been brought against them in connection with a 1982 massacre.
The news came at the conclusion of the investigation into the killing of 143 residents of the village of Dujail, northeast of Baghdad, after Saddam survived an assassination bid there.
Centrifuges that could be used to separate high-grade uranium from natural uranium were found in a warehouse near Tuwaitha.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
Inspectors examine molten steel ingots. Equipment was melted in furnaces and turned into ingots to hide it from the inspectors.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
A drum of radioactive material discovered in Iraq in 1991.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
Bottles of specialized oil used in centrifuge for separating high-grade uranium from natural uranium.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
Containers for radioactive material discovered in a warehouse in Iraq in 1991.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
Thank you for the correction. Interesting place for a typo.
Action Team Inspectors examine an Electro Magnetic Isotope Separation (EMIS) machine. EMIS's are used to separate highly enriched uranium from natural uranium.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
The remains of facilities used for Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons programme.
Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
You and your pictures :)
He drafted his report in the Bar after about 5 Kaptain Morgans.
Since I can't think of any plausible reason to post a picture of a scantily clad woman, you get a pass. -:)
bttt
I think you are correct.
Bookmark... Oh, this is getting so rich, we should all by stock in Pepto-Bismal, the Libs are going to be drinking it by the gallons.
Unfortunately there was a typo in the original document.
See post#54.
'03, '04, doesn't make much difference... by his own admission he was a Kerry advisor back to mid '03, unless of course he is lieing again. The more we know about this the worse it looks for these folks. Rove wins again.
July 30, 2004
http://www.everythingiknowiswrong.com/2004/07/joe_wilson_stil.html
Joe Wilson still with Kerry Campaign
According to the New York Post, Joe Wilson, the amateur "CIA operative" and vocal Bush basher who's Saddam-never-sought-yellow-cake-uranium-in-Niger story was completely discredited by the 9-11 commission report and the British government's Butler report, is still a Kerry advisor.
New York Post
July 29, 2004 -- DEMOCRAT John Kerry's campaign yesterday gave a ringing endorsement to Bush-bashing Ambassador Joe Wilson — even though a bipartisan Senate committee just found so many holes in his story that even his own wife won't back it up.
Wilson claimed President Bush lied about whether Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger, and Wilson knew it because the CIA sent him there. The Senate report says, if anything, the truth is the opposite of what Wilson claimed.
But that doesn't seems to bother the Kerryites, who yesterday hailed Wilson's "integrity" and said he's still very much a part of the team that Kerry hopes will make him commander in chief. "Joe Wilson has served for many months as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign and continues to do so," said Kerry foreign policy adviser Susan Rice.
In addition to Joe Wilson they have already indicated that similarly discredited Kerry advisor Sandy Berger is expected to come back into the fold.
San Francisco Chronicle
"Sandy Berger is my friend, and he has tirelessly served this nation with honor and distinction," Kerry said Tuesday. "I respect his decision to step aside as an adviser to the campaign until this matter is resolved objectively and fairly."
But...
Associates said they expected that he would probably try to rejoin the campaign after the FBI concludes an investigation that began in earnest in January, after the National Archives discovered that classified material Berger had reviewed was missing.
What can we learn from the fact that John Kerry has, as his most important national security advisors, these two bumblers (both of whom have been discredited by major bi-partisan reports in more than one country, and one who is under active investigation by the FBI for alleged theft of the most highly classified type of documents)? Just this: Kerry is not serious about national security.
Thank God for NewsMax!
ABC News Links Bin Laden and Saddam
http://archives.warroom.com/abcnews-1999.mp3
Here's a video of the ABC News report:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/rm/cyber/2004/binladen061704/segment1.ram
With shutters clicking and flashes popping, Wilson demanded anew that Rove be fired. "I made my bones confronting Saddam Hussein and securing the release of over 2,000 Americans in hiding in Kuwait," he said before a cluster of microphones beneath a portrait of George Washington. "Karl Rove made his bones doing political dirty tricks. This is not about Joe Wilson."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071402023.html
'But Schumer, and Wilson, could not entirely resist the Republican bait. "I know that Karl Rove and his allies in the administration are eager to paint Ambassador Wilson as a politically motivated malcontent, but Karl Rove and the RNC accusing Joe Wilson of playing politics is like Homer Simpson telling Lance Armstrong he's out of shape," the senator fumed, with Wilson at his side.
When the questions inevitably turned to the GOP charges about Wilson's credibility and partisanship, Schumer continued, "It's Kafka-esque to turn the tables on this man," the senator said. "He served his country. I believe he was a Republican."'
I thought he had said the VP's office sent him. I don't see how this one is inconsistent with what he's said.
Its there own fault, this all brewed up because they were trying so hard to prove BUSH Lied.
Now, they find out Wilson and wifekyins had an agenda, she was Covert,HELLO, LOL, all the neighbors knew she worked at Langley.
No no. When he first came forward, he wrote and spoke in such a way as to leave no doubt that it was Cheney who sent him...but we haven't been able to find an instance where he actually said it. The reason we all remember it that way is because the Rats were all over TV and print saying it for him.
Then, when it became apparent his wife had sent him, he began declaring he had NEVER said Cheney sent him.
But, he had never done anything to counter the Rats' talking points.
Credit these to falpro:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444877/posts?page=27#27
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444238/posts?page=255#255
Re-Ping.
"And, UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, have known for years that Iraq had uranium concentrate, or "yellowcake" – about 550 metric tons, in fact – and have monitored its inventory in Tuwaitha through regular inspections. Iraq acquired it before the first Gulf war.
That's nothing new.
What's new is the claim that Hussein recently sought an additional 500 tons – a huge amount – from Niger.
The alleged attempted acquisition (couched in final presidential speech drafts as "significant quantities from Africa") was critical to the administration's case that Iraq "has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons," as Vice President Dick Cheney claimed just three days before the war.
It takes hundreds of tons of unrefined uranium to produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make a single nuclear bomb. In addition, the refining process requires thousands of gas centrifuges to separate the isotopes. These centrifuges, in turn, require tubing to make the casings for the rotors that spin inside them.
In a one-two punch, Bush in his State of the Union accused Iraq of not only aggressively seeking uranium from abroad, but also thousands of aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons.
The tubing charge is now also under dispute.
Last October, the CIA and other U.S. intelligence concluded Baghdad could make a nuclear bomb in a year or less – but only if it "acquires sufficient fissile material from abroad." The judgment was published in the recently declassified summary of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq weapons, roughly 80 pages of which is still secret (this is not the same report as the 25-page unclassified white paper the CIA made public on its website last October).
"Without such material from abroad," however, "Iraq probably would not be able to make a weapon until 2007 to 2009," the NIE report continues.
That's a big difference: one year away from a nuke with large uranium imports, or five to seven years without them.
I.C. Smith, a former senior FBI counterintelligence agent who last decade helped prepare NIEs as a member of the National Foreign Intelligence Board, says that without the uranium allegation, the five-to-seven year scenario was not sufficiently alarming to justify starting a war.
It's clear from another part of the NIE the White House knew an Iraqi agreement to purchase 500 tons or more of uranium would "shorten the time Baghdad needs to produce nuclear weapons" – if the deal were true, that is, and the CIA had serious doubts that it was."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33753
Why would Wilson mention the yellow-cake that Saddam already had and that the International Atomic Energy Agency had already been monitoring? The issue was whether Saddam was trying to acquire more of it in order to re-start his nuclear program. Besides, the 550 tonnes of yellow -cake that was in Iraq was of little use to him. It's not like it can be used as a WMD its self.
The media has long history of forgetting things they have reported on in the past
I think it's call selective memory
Thank you for the confirmation.
They had it before the sanctions. It is not a secret, and it is not news.
Ask somebody who does not look at websites like this or listen to talk radio whether or not there was yellowcake uranium in Iraq. You will find out how few people are aware of this.
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