Like Pamela said, if the Libs don't think this is frightening, we ought to bake up a Yellowcake Pie for them.
Hey Libs, Eat This!
The AP article states "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."
While this 550 tons of yellowcake was news to some of us, it was not
news to Douglas Hanson or Rick Moran at American Thinker.
As Douglas Hanson asked in 2004:
"Why did the IAEA allow Iraq to retain such massive amounts of nuclear
material, when its three nuclear facilities had been destroyed over 12 years
ago, and have never been repaired?"In another AT piece , he went on to say
"How many nuclear weapons can you build [with 500 tons of
yellowcake]? The answer is 142."
5 comments:
Is it not notable that the yellowcake had been in storage since 1991, with no attempt to refine it made, and no sale on the black market? Saddam might not even have known it was still in storage, and certinly made no attempt to use it.
I am not impressed by the 'discoery' of two food irradiation units either. That's just making mountains from molehills. You might as well call me a terrorist - I have fissile material in my loft. Americium smoke detectors.
A smoke detector is not 1.2 million pounds.
In case you FORGET Raven, in 2002 the Russians and French were both loudly shouting that the time for sanctions against Iraq should end. The Germans agreed.
It is inarguable that Saddam was planning and waiting (and BRIBING EVERYONE HE COULD FIND...Oil for Food) for this.
The sad history of europe shows clearly that their 'sophisticated' manner of thinking would see the economic ('if I don't sell it someone else will') side of selling Iraq PLENTY of dual use equipment, INCLUDING P-2's.
But never mind....Powell said the WMD was the ONLY reason all depts could 'coalesce' around for taking Iraq off the board. They are ALL hoisted by that petard, and the failure to clean sweep all the morons who failed to act on intelligence in 2000-2001, and thus were demonstrably incompetent to judge that Saddam HAD dangerous WMD PRODUCT stockpiled.
It always seems that the naysayers of the war grasp onto single items and say: "See, there was no reason to go to war with Saddam's Iraq."
The truth is, that there were many many reasons to go to war there. Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. Someone explain to me why hundreds of Russian Tractor Trailers were streaming daily into Syria.
What were the Russians shipping? Well the Saddam tapes proved that there were lots of WMD, seems it was spirited away right up to the time the Allied forces captured Baghdad.
Auk,,,, I WANT that to be true, but the hard evidence is just so circumstantial (i.e. we don't have truck wreckage smothered in VX). I have personally made the case to some arab friends that all the VX we know he had could be buried in an area (assuming 55 gallon type drums) smaller than an american football field.
At this point I think we all just need to LET GO of it.
After a while, given that we have dealt Al Qaeda a Guadalcanal sized defeat (at this point), that's all that matters. We need to bear in mind that Iraq was not a war, but a campaign, and that there will be others.
Democracies will always be disadvantaged in a long war..that's been true since 400 BC ..we need to be aware of this and keep on keeping on.
There will be setbacks, and certainly the invasion for the reason of ready to deploy WMD stockpiles was one --IN THE PR AND POLITICAL REALM, not the military one. We need to make certain that the political situation is reflective of the result on the battlefield.
They are CRUSHED.
Everyone should be cognizant.
Including Obama, Durbin, Reid, and Pelosi. They are the only ones who can see us defeated today.
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