Posted on 11/02/2005 8:21:16 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
The US has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month.
"This operation was a major achievement," said US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in a statement.
He said it would keep "potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists."
Along with 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" were also removed.
The material was taken from a former nuclear research facility on 23 June, after being packaged by 20 experts from the US Energy Department's secret laboratories.
It was flown out of the country aboard a military plane in a joint operation with the Department of Defense, and is being stored temporarily at a Department of Energy facility...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
They are waiting for that information to have the maximum effect of wiping out the left wing AND the MSM. It's coming...let the lib''s have their investigations..all will be revealed.
After considering some of the responses to me (r9etb's in particular), there is a scenario that could prove to all of us the wisdom taken in the past few years. I believe it was Ann Richards who made a comment regarding underestimating Bush's intelligence and political acumen.She may well be right! Specifically, here is the potential scenario:
Bush lays low on all the information we have obtained through our efforts in Iraq, until after the '06 elections. This assumes that he is willing to lose a few seats, but our majority is not seriously threatened. He then has a blue ribbon intelligence committee selected to issue a report on the Iraq war. This report would detail (as much as national security permits) an assessment of WMD's and the status of Iraq infrastructure. Plus an intelligence assessment on the overall damage done to terrorism.
This report should be issued after the Democratic candidate has fully committed to her positions regarding the War (Bush lied, no MWD, distraction from the war on terrorism, Ben Laden still free, etc.).
That would then force her to declare the report either a sham or, that her previous position's were erroneous.
Given that scenario, I believe we would see a landslide victory for us in '08. Food for thought and hopeful thinking.
BS eh?
"The United States informed the IAEA June 30 that it had removed the material, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei wrote in a July 6 letter to the UN Security Council."
"The United States first notified the agency of its intention to remove the material in June 2003, ElBaradei’s letter said."
"The IAEA last visited Tuwaitha in June 2003, following reports that nuclear material had been looted from the facility after the U.S.-led invasion of the country in March 2003"
LOL @ "looted"
This administration is locked into a struggle to justify the entry into the war. We're not talking about "whiny armchair pundits". We're talking about political realities. The Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield. It was lost in the political arena here is the U.S.
I haven't even read the posts past yours to see if anyone answered you but the answer to your question is the reason I just sit back in amazement at the spineless a-hole Republicans in Washingtion.
The answer is they are spineless a-hole wimps and do not deserve to represent me. They nausiate me!!!!
Now I've got to go check my bloodpressure. Later....
This one gets my vote...
Must have missed it on the news this morning.
It must have been the top story! Don't you think?
What if it's not a failure? What if they're not talking about it because they don't have it all and they don't want the terrorists getting to it before we do. Better that the world thinks there were no WMD rather than "we found some but still have to find the rest".
I think when history looks back, the left is going to look really, really bad.
Then not providing information to their opponents may be wise. Sometimes the best way to defeat an opponent is to not engage him, just keep getting out of the way.
At some point the repeatedly-answered "where's the WMDs?" mantra will get tiresome and the chanters dismissed.
Jimmah got elected because he shmoozed the old time Democrats at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, IA and won the Hawkeye Cauci.
I am not saying I personally believe that, I was just making an observation.
The idea is that this was the material that Iraq was already known to possess, under seal by the IAEA. So it doesn't "count" as being a WMD claim, because it was already found and placed under seal. Its like punishing your kid for smoking - you find cigarettes in his room on Tuesday, and place them "under seal". If when you check again Friday, all you find is the same pack of cigs you sealed on Tuesday - that's doesn't "count" as a new claim that he is smoking, so you can't punish him.
There are only two ways to substantiate a claim of a "new" iraq nuclear program - 1) validate the Niger claim, and show that the forged documents were planted on purpose. 2) somehow demonstrate a link (material, scientist exchanges) between the Libya program, which they gave up, and Iraq.
The other way to determine where the iraq WMD went to; find Al Douri in Syria and ask him.
So why couldn't they have talked about that yesterday??? I just don't get it? Instead of Frist sounding like a beaten wife, why couldn't he have said "It's time for the scales to fall from these democrats eyes. We just removed 1.77 tons of enriched uranium from Iraq. Don't tell me they didn't have WMS. We've found Cyclosporin. Don't tell me they didn't have WMD... " etc.
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Al Jazeera Headline:
"Bush Admits Nuclear Stockpiles in Iraqi City of X, and Nerve Gas Stockpiles in Iraqi City of Y, Vows to Remove Them Before Insurgents Do."
Not.
The Administration may not be able to prevent every leak, but they will not personally go public until all the dangerous material is out of Iraq.
Wishing otherwise is either naive or an agenda almost too horrible to contemplate.
How many years have we been waiting for that?
Unless said uranium is in the form of a deadly bomb, flying across the sky toward us, the left will never admit that this is WMD-related. I'm not even sure they'd look up to see it coming. They'd have to pull their heads out of their arses first.
I'm sure it's just "peaceful" material - just like the kind Iran keeps talking about...
Oh, I don't know, the BA gets dissed plenty, but I'm still so happy with the Alito pick that I decided to give President Bush the week off from being mad at him.
The Senate Republican Wimpos get no such respite. They need to get a stick up the ying-yang, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on those democrats.
No kidding.
Big deal. Where's the yellowcake? /sarc
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