Bush lied and Saddam had no nuke program!
Bush lied about yellow cake from Niger. So what. Saddam didn't need any from Niger. He already owned plenty - hundreds of metric tons. And Saddam was secretly purchasing centrifuge components that could process yellow cake into higher forms of enriched uranium for potential use in reactors and nuclear weapons.
Read on.
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Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq - Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada
(updated 6:57 p.m. ET, Sat., July. 5, 2008, Associated Press)
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.
What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.
"Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq," said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called "dirty bomb" — a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material — it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.
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and Read this:
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Uranium removed from Iraq nuclear site
By Alissa J. Rubin and Campbell Robertson
Published: July 7, 2008
BAGHDAD: American and Iraqi officials have completed nearly the last chapter in dismantling Saddam Hussein's nuclear program with the removal of hundreds of tons of natural uranium from the country's main nuclear site.
The uranium, which was removed several weeks ago, arrived in Canada over the weekend, according to officials. The removal was first reported by The Associated Press.
Although the material could not be used in its current form for a nuclear weapon or even a so-called dirty bomb, officials decided that in Iraq's unstable environment, it was important to make sure that it did not fall into the wrong hands. There are also health dangers associated with concentrated forms of natural uranium. American military personnel helped move about 600 tons of uranium in the form called yellowcake. It had been stored at Tuwaitha, an installation south of Baghdad that had been the site of Iraq's nuclear program.
Cameco, a Canadian company that produces uranium and sells it around the world, bought the material, according to foreign officials knowledgeable about the transaction.
"The Iraqi government requested our help; we helped them," said Leslie Phillips, a spokeswoman for the American Embassy in Baghdad. "It was their decision and we were happy to assist, at their request. This is a good example of Iraqis working with international companies to get done what they want to get done."
There has been a continuing international effort to remove nuclear material from countries that are no longer using it. The International Atomic Energy Agency has helped a number of countries, including Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, get rid of highly enriched uranium and spent nuclear fuel.
The yellowcake removed from Iraq - which was not the same yellowcake that President George W. Bush claimed, in a now discredited section of his 2003 State of the Union address, that Saddam was trying to purchase in Africa - could be used in an early stage of the nuclear fuel cycle. Only after intensive processing would it become low-enriched uranium, which could fuel reactors producing power. Highly enriched uranium can be used in nuclear bombs.
The only neighboring country known to have the technology to process yellowcake is Iran, but Iran has its own stores of the uranium. A State Department official said there had been no indication that Iran was seeking the material or was interested in using it.
This was not the first time that the United States had intervened to remove potentially harmful nuclear material from Iraq. Just a few days before the Americans formally transferred sovereignty back to Iraq in June 2004, they removed 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium, as well as other radioactive sources, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The material was taken to the United States.
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So I guess the Main Stream Media (MSM) was right after all. Saddam had no WMD program at all. No nuke program either. Yeah, right! LOL
And if you are looking for the MSM to run this on the front page, learn to live with disappointment. They won't.
Because it proves the MSM lied. Repeatedly and shamelessly. Now who's the bigger LIAR?
All of you liberal bloggers will call this a non-story because yellowcake is not a WMD in an of itself. So what. The mere possession of hundreds of tons of yellowcake, and essential ingredient needed to produce highly enriched uranium for use in nuclear weapons is all the evidence I need.
And all of the liberals who would discredit this find as "not relevant" would be the same whiners screaming, "Why didn't we do something about it" after Saddam exploded his first nuke. (i.e., ridiculous assertions that Bush possessed all the intel he needed to prevent 9/11). Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
(Unless you want some of this yellowcake. You can have that and eat it too!)
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