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Jul 7, 2008

US removes uranium from Iraq, Saddam's WMDs

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" - the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

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Last year a said 'Just wait and see, some of what Saddam had in hiding will come out and you will see what the threat of his country really was and that he did have WMDs.' Well here you go.
You liberals are running out of excuses now.
The deaths are down.
The fighting is down.
The attacks are down.
The political progress is up.
(12of the 18 benchmarks set by the Democrats have been met by the Iraqi gov.)
The Iraqi Armed Force are doing a way better job and relieving Coalition Forces of much of the heavy lifting.
If we would of left when you all started crying this WMD could and probably would of ended up in bad hands.

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Man, your "selective-reading" button has been repeatedly punched here, hasn't it ?
Did you miss this ?
"Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well known for decades as the centerpiece of Saddam's nuclear efforts.
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."
You may have skimmed over the parts (likely..) where mention is made that yellowcake is useless for weapon use, although could have a psychological effect, like sugar in envelopes.
Still, I admire your staunch and blind support for the FUBAR of Iraqnam.
Good drone.

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Man, your "selective-reading" button has been repeatedly punched here, hasn't it ?
Did you miss this ?
"Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well known for decades as the centerpiece of Saddam's nuclear efforts.
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."
You may have skimmed over the parts (likely..) where mention is made that yellowcake is useless for weapon use, although could have a psychological effect, like sugar in envelopes.
Still, I admire your staunch and blind support for the FUBAR of Iraqnam.
Good drone.
So Saddam did not purchase any after 1991, so what?
He still had it. It was still there and still a threat. You really think if we just went to Afghanistan that Saddam would not threaten us? That is quite a gamble.

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Yellow Cake is simply proof that he had Nuclear Intentions and had acted.

Very glad to hear that it was removed and will be used by the Canadian Co's.

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No, Pudintain, it was NEVER a gamble.
Osama and Saddam hated one another, even more than they hated the oil-hungry Americans.

Whats more, the equipment needed to transform the yellowcake into anything useful had been bombed to shit by the Israelis in 1981, and Saddam had shelved his nuclear program.
After "Oil War 1", the embargo ensured the complete impossibility of him being able to obtain any sort of WMD fabrication gear, and it's NOT the sort of thing you find floating around on E-Bay...

No, seriously, you can be a jingoistic American who supports the troops as much as you want, good on you, but at least try to think.
The US invading Afgasistan for UNOCAL and the route to the sea for all the Caspian Basin gas and oil, oh yeah, and to "Git Osama !" was a good thing to have happened for Saddam, because it neutralized the Taliban and the fanatical Islamists who were a threat to the Ba'ath party hold on a secular and non-Islamist Iraq.
It also tied you down and could possibly have eased off the pressure on him, because Iran would have had to have split its forces between watching him and the new neighbors.
Plus you would have needed oil for the war machine and he was hoping to be able to sell to more of your corrupt businessmen and politicians, like he did in the "Oil-for-Food" scheme.

He never thought you'd be stupid enough to invade Iraqnam.

Guess he miscalculated just how vicious, greedy and deluded the neocons were.

This is an interesting article.

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_10/cover...

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The laughing liberal wrote:
Yellow Cake is simply proof that he had Nuclear Intentions and had acted.
Very glad to hear that it was removed and will be used by the Canadian Co's.
No one ever said that he didn't have nuclear ambitions, back in the 1970's and early 80's, but they ended when Osirak when "Bang !" in Hebrew.
Thus the scepticism concerning the "Orifice of Special Plans" and it's prime movers Feith and Perle's fearmongering about the "mushroom cloud" bullshit that your idiot leader prooted out like a trained parrot in the lead-up to "Oil War 2; The Revenge of the Neocons."

Everyone knew the yellowcake was there, and everyone knew it posed as much of a threat to global security under Saddam as a well chained up barking junkyard dog.

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The US invading Afgasistan for UNOCAL and the route to the sea for all the Caspian Basin gas and oil, oh yeah, and to "Git Osama !" was a good thing to have happened for Saddam, because it neutralized the Taliban and the fanatical Islamists who were a threat to the Ba'ath party hold on a secular and non-Islamist Iraq.
What BO thinking, Renou. I am glad to see you back my little French man Troll. Still waiting for that oil pipeline that the USA is involved in supposedly. I am sure that will solve all our energy problems and make us wealthy beyond belief.

How is the Burmese pipeline going for the Chinese? How many are "worth it" for you? Luckily the Chinese do not have to bother with those inconvenient little things like democracy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/157557...
Everyone knew the yellowcake was there, and everyone knew it posed as much of a threat to global security under Saddam as a well chained up barking junkyard dog.
LOL, you are funny today Boudu. What do you think yellowcake is used for? Is it so the poor can eat it? Maybe you believe the Iranian Scientists that claim they need heavy water for curing cancer also.

What an idiot you are Renou...
He never thought you'd be stupid enough to invade Iraqnam.
Is that why he made plans for after his regime collapse? Just curious...

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It is clearly great day for the American people and their brave US troops under the Commander in Chief President Bush that waited all these long years since 2003 until today to prove to the liberal socialist self-hating Americans and to the socialistic European countries including France and Germany that US troops saved the Middle East from a nuclear WMDs humanitarian disaster in the hands of the brutal radical Islamic terrorist Saddam Husain.
The America hating New York Times and US liberals Dems politicians including Hillary and Barack were using internal support of CIA agents to hide the truth about Saddam’s WMDs and to viciously blame President Bush as a liar.
However, with the truth about Saddam’s WMDs in Iraq coming to light, President Bush was vindicated today from the unprecedented daily hatful attacks of the liberal media led by ABC, CBS and CNN on his truthful and noble service of the American people and the world.
Our brave US troops were 100% right to go to war in Iraq on April 2003 and defeat the brutal radical Islamic tyrant Saddam that was ready to use his nuclear WMDs warhead missiles attack as early as 2003 against the Jews and against his enemies in the Middle East that could lead to nuclear holocaust that could change the world irreversibly to the worst forever.
Thanks to the liberal socialist Dems that are led by the New York Times and ABC and CNN for collaborating with the radical Islamic terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Mehdi Army under the evil Iranian regime and of the al Qaida and for consistently seeking the defeat of US troops that saved the world from a nuclear disaster in 2003.

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Pudintain wrote:
Last year a said 'Just wait and see, some of what Saddam had in hiding will come out and you will see what the threat of his country really was and that he did have WMDs.' Well here you go.
You liberals are running out of excuses now.
The deaths are down.
The fighting is down.
The attacks are down.
The political progress is up.
(12of the 18 benchmarks set by the Democrats have been met by the Iraqi gov.)
The Iraqi Armed Force are doing a way better job and relieving Coalition Forces of much of the heavy lifting.
If we would of left when you all started crying this WMD could and probably would of ended up in bad hands.
Well said and true. Clearly, the French President Chirac was cooperating with the brutal radical Islamic tyrant Saddam and was bribed by Saddam to prevent US from saving the Middle East from a nuclear WMDs holocaust as early as 2003.
Nevertheless, it is clearly great day for the American people and their brave US troops under the Commander in Chief President Bush that waited all these long years since 2003 until today to prove to the liberal socialist self-hating Americans and to the socialistic European countries including France and Germany that US troops saved the Middle East from a nuclear WMDs humanitarian disaster in the hands of the brutal radical Islamic terrorist Saddam Husain.
The America hating New York Times and US liberals Dems politicians including Hillary and Barack were using internal support of CIA agents to hide the truth about Saddam’s WMDs and to viciously blame President Bush as a liar.
However, with the truth about Saddam’s WMDs in Iraq coming to light, President Bush was vindicated today from the unprecedented daily hatful attacks of the liberal media led by ABC, CBS and CNN on his truthful and noble service of the American people and the world.
Our brave US troops were 100% right to go to war in Iraq on April 2003 and defeat the brutal radical Islamic tyrant Saddam that was ready to use his nuclear WMDs warhead missiles attack as early as 2003 against the Jews and against his enemies in the Middle East that could lead to nuclear holocaust that could change the world irreversibly to the worst forever.
Thanks to the liberal socialist Dems that are led by the New York Times and ABC and CNN for collaborating with the radical Islamic terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Mehdi Army under the evil Iranian regime and of the al Qaida and for consistently seeking the defeat of US troops that saved the world from a nuclear disaster in 2003.
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So Saddam did not purchase any after 1991, so what?
He still had it. It was still there and still a threat. You really think if we just went to Afghanistan that Saddam would not threaten us? That is quite a gamble.
Why so quick to jump on Pierre France? He makes a good point. The UN already had control of this "yellow cake". The inspectors found no proof of any additional nuclear material during Bush's presidency.

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Why so quick to jump on Pierre France? He makes a good point. The UN already had control of this "yellow cake". The inspectors found no proof of any additional nuclear material during Bush's presidency.
They're quick to jump on me because Wrongald is a professional troll with a grudge, Pudintain is just a connedservative who has been taken for a ride, and Jones is completely barking-at-the-walls insane.

And the truth hurts their pretensions of empire.

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<quoted text>They're quick to jump on me because Wrongald is a professional troll with a grudge, Pudintain is just a connedservative who has been taken for a ride, and Jones is completely barking-at-the-walls insane.
And the truth hurts their pretensions of empire.
And Renou is a professional French Surrender Monkey Troll. How is the Islamofascist business these days...
712 civilians were killed/found dead in June; 28 of them were children, 30 were killed by US forces.
You must be so proud of your fellow travelers. Terrorists=682 to Coalition forces=30. "Mission Accomplished"

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Why so quick to jump on Pierre France? He makes a good point. The UN already had control of this "yellow cake". The inspectors found no proof of any additional nuclear material during Bush's presidency.
He jumped me first. Anyway the UN was a far cry away from having control over the problem. Anyone that can get away with exterminating his own people is unpredictable and needs taken out.
The UN found no proof because just like Iran they were not given access to it.

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The laughing liberal wrote:
Yellow Cake is simply proof that he had Nuclear Intentions and had acted.
Very glad to hear that it was removed and will be used by the Canadian Co's.
No one denies that at some point in his regime that Saadam had hopes of developing a nuclear weapon.

The thing is his capacity to make it happen was over long before we invaded.The Bush Crime Family just stirred it up and served it up on a big plate of propaganda.

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So Saddam did not purchase any after 1991, so what?
He still had it. It was still there and still a threat. You really think if we just went to Afghanistan that Saddam would not threaten us? That is quite a gamble.
Yellowcake is only a threat to idiots and neocons.

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Why so quick to jump on Pierre France? He makes a good point. The UN already had control of this "yellow cake". The inspectors found no proof of any additional nuclear material during Bush's presidency.
If the UN had it taken care of then why is the USA getting to Canada?
Why didn't the UN do this before the war then?
Show me anything that says the UN knew of this and was handling it before 2003.

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No one denies that at some point in his regime that Saadam had hopes of developing a nuclear weapon.
The thing is his capacity to make it happen was over long before we invaded.The Bush Crime Family just stirred it up and served it up on a big plate of propaganda.
That is quite a gamble you were willing to make. I know I would not want to be President and know Saddam had it but did nothing. Then have him at the stage that Iran is at.
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Question---so if WMD was found afterall why hasn't the Bush administration been screaming this from the rooftops.

The Bush admin took such a beating for not finding wmd so if they have known about these wmds for a long time why were they not screaming about it to shut the opposition up?

glad they got the yellowcake stuff out of there

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Question---so if WMD was found afterall why hasn't the Bush administration been screaming this from the rooftops.
The Bush admin took such a beating for not finding wmd so if they have known about these wmds for a long time why were they not screaming about it to shut the opposition up?
glad they got the yellowcake stuff out of there
We have had many big break outs, from all deaths and attacks dropping around 80% to 12 out 18 Iraqi benchmarks being met. Bush rarely takes the stage on these thing unless asked. The liberal media will not ask these.
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Last year a said 'Just wait and see, some of what Saddam had in hiding will come out and you will see what the threat of his country really was and that he did have WMDs.' Well here you go.
You liberals are running out of excuses now.
The deaths are down.
The fighting is down.
The attacks are down.
The political progress is up.
(12of the 18 benchmarks set by the Democrats have been met by the Iraqi gov.)
The Iraqi Armed Force are doing a way better job and relieving Coalition Forces of much of the heavy lifting.
If we would of left when you all started crying this WMD could and probably would of ended up in bad hands.
This news will go in one ear and out their ass.
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