Reminds me of Wacky Packs from the '70's
Posted on 07/05/2008 6:00:55 PM PDT by Libloather
Reminds me of Wacky Packs from the '70's
Why did Bush Sr. not go after the troublemaker who invaded Kuwait?
GHWB is the one responsible for his son’s predicament. I also believe the terrorism of the 1990’s wouldn’t have happened.
Not going after Saddam and his gang was a dumb-ass thing to do. imho
Bookmark for all the arguments I’m going to start tomorrow with every liberal I see.
Never send an ambassador to do a spy's job.
So, when Valerie Plame sent her low-level diplomat husband, Joe Wilson, to go have cocktails with other low-level diplomats in Niger and they told him that Iraq was not seeking to buy yellowcake uranium, he believed them?
LOL, what a chump!
IIRC, Wilson actually confirmed Bush's claim that the uranium was sought. He simply denied that the sale had actually taken place. But Bush never said it did.
Great post!
It only underscores what a weak coward Bush is when it comes to standing up for himself (and thereby standing up for the rest of us who voted for him twice). Those quotes should have been included in at least twenty of his Saturday radio addresses, and repeated in hundreds of White House press releases.
But no - - most of us will only read those quotes, and this story about the recovered yellowcake, here at Free Republic.
Glad I checked in and stumbled onto this headline.
As others have pointed out the recovered yellowcake was apparently known about for decades.
See:
"This is not remarkable news- I believe this material was from Tuwaitha and the stockpile there dated back to the late 1970’s when Iraq bought Nigerien yellowcake to produce fuel for its Osirak facility - which Israel destroyed in 1979(?) After DESERT STORM The UN had the Tuwaitha stockpile pretty much under its observation, if not outright control."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2041287/posts?page=31#31
ping
Gonna hurt the argument that Bush Lied and this was a war for oil eh?
How come they never say they were wrong????
I just saw yet another post somewhere this morning that was in caps “bush lied” so I replied in like. “Like hell he did” and linked this. Thanks for the information!
Funny how the MSM Kansas City Star put the article on page 11. of the A-section.
I guess the Media does not want to be honest with American.
The Iraqi Gov eve got paid to give up the material which will be converted to clean electricty.
But the MSM won’t ever tell us there was Uranium found in Iraq unless you turn to page 11.
Please post on what page of your local liberal rag that the article was posted on. As noted above. Kansas City Star it was page 9. oa the A section.
I didn't want to say this. The m-----f----- bought yellow cake. All right! From Africa. He went to Africa and bought some yellow cake.
News Reporter: Are you sure?
Yes! I'm sure, bitch!
Associated pap is peddling doom & gloom. Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'
NYT: Maybe Greenland Isn't Melting After All
Science & the NY Times try to bury that story. Makes me want to go hmmm.
very good
What kind of control did the UN have after UNSCOM inspectors were removed from Iraq in 1998?
Sadly, the general public does not care anymore. So goes the saying, "You can't beat a dead horse." This horse is not going to get back up and run.
A FReeper correctly stated above, this is in part, Old news; and the public didn't care back then; if in fact, they even read about any of it.
Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which 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, the official said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have guarded the 23,000-acre site - surrounded by huge sand berms - following a wave of looting after Saddam's fall that included villagers toting away yellowcake storage barrels for use as drinking water cisterns.
Yellowcake is obtained by using various solutions to leach out uranium from raw ore and can have a corn meal-like color and consistency. It poses no severe risk if stored and sealed properly. But exposure carries well-documented health concerns associated with heavy metals such as damage to internal organs, experts say.
"The big problem comes with any inhalation of any of the yellowcake dust," said Doug Brugge, a professor of public health issues at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Moving the yellowcake faced numerous hurdles.
Diplomats and military leaders first weighed the idea of shipping the yellowcake overland to Kuwait's port on the Persian Gulf. Such a route, however, would pass through Iraq's Shiite heartland and within easy range of extremist factions, including some that Washington claims are aided by Iran. The ship also would need to clear the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf, where U.S. and Iranian ships often come in close contact.
Kuwaiti authorities, too, were reluctant to open their borders to the shipment despite top-level lobbying from Washington.
An alternative plan took shape: shipping out the yellowcake on cargo planes.
But the yellowcake still needed a final destination. Iraqi government officials sought buyers on the commercial market, where uranium prices spiked at about $120 per pound last year. It's currently selling for about half that. The Cameco deal was reached earlier this year, the official said.
At that point, U.S.-led crews began removing the yellowcake from the Saddam-era containers - some leaking or weakened by corrosion - and reloading the material into about 3,500 secure barrels.
The yellowcake wasn't the only dangerous item removed from Tuwaitha.
Earlier this year, the military withdrew four devices for controlled radiation exposure from the former nuclear complex. The lead-enclosed irradiation units, used to decontaminate food and other items, contain elements of high radioactivity that could potentially be used in a weapon, according to the official. Their Ottawa-based manufacturer, MDS Nordion, took them back for free, the official said.
The yellowcake was the last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts, but years of final cleanup is ahead for Tuwaitha and other smaller sites. The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency plans to offer technical expertise.
Last month, a team of Iraqi nuclear experts completed training in the Ukrainian ghost town of Pripyat, which once housed the Chernobyl workers before the deadly meltdown in 1986, said an IAEA official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decontamination plan has not yet been publicly announced.
But the job ahead is enormous, complicated by digging out radioactive "hot zones" entombed in concrete during Saddam's rule, said the IAEA official. Last year, an IAEA safety expert, Dennis Reisenweaver, predicted the cleanup could take "many years."
Now, how about those gas prices? That's all Americans can lock mind-set and "sob" about. How often do you even hear mention that drilling for oil within the US is (shouts): A National Security Issue???..oh, and let's not forget about Global Warming, Living Green and a mess of the Economy. WMD's might be found on... Page 11.
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