Saddam and his yellowcake 2008|28|Chronicle



THE FOUNDATION: NATIONAL DEFENSE


"How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless
we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of
every hostile nation?"  .......James Madison


EDITORIAL EXEGESIS


Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why
should you? It doesn’t fit the media’s neat story line that Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. It’s a little known fact
that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium
yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear
fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad. In recent weeks, the U.S.
secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was
bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel—thus
keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region.


This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP
reported, this marks a ‘significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s
nuclear legacy.’ Seems to us this should be big news. After all, much of the
early opposition to the war in Iraq involved claims that President Bush ‘lied’
about weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam posed little if any nuclear
threat to the U.S. This more or less proves Saddam in 2003 had a program on
hold for building WMD and that he planned to boot it up again soon...Saddam
acquired most of his uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when
invading U.S. troops found the stuff... That means Saddam held onto it for
more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start
his WMD program anew. This would seem to vindicate Bush’s decision to invade.

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UPRIGHT
"It’s one thing to fight a war and lose it. It’s quite another to willingly
surrender without a struggle." ....Cal Thomas





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