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550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq
Orion Blastar tips us to an AP report that 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" uranium has successfully been removed from Iraq. The operation lasted three months, and it required 37 separate flights and an 8,500-mile trip by boat to reach a port in Montreal. Quoting:
"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. The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth 'tens of millions of dollars.' A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors."
That nation's name is enough to make trolls drool. But, of course, you should have misspelled it with an extra "g"...
Yes, because we know democrats never start wars.
Except for the Korean War. ... aaannd Vietnam.
I won't count WWII or WWI because our shit done got blown up.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
He's dead and his people are liberated. Helluva a victory! Just like Hitler won WWII...
"O'really? Perhaps you are right. He never outright blamed 9/11 on Iraq, but he sure as shit intimated it on a frequent basis, making at least 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al qaeda. [publicintegrity.org] But at least he has plausible deniability - it wasn't his fault the public heard "al qaeda" and thought "9/11" no, no, no, no!"
Yes, I am right. That is why I said it. Can you name ONE person who thinks that it was Iraq behind 9/11? I live in Redneck Democrat Central where the most intelligent conversations about the War on Terror is not much better than "NUKE ALL THEM F***ING SAND N****RS!" and I still don't know ANYONE who thinks that Iraq was behind 9/11. You're just wrong, dude.
Most of your Center for Public Integrity quotes are intelligence failures, not lies. The same "lies" have been repeated by Clinton, Albright, and scores of senators.
Ypur claim that pre existing resolutions authorised this is at best laughable
... that all added to the list of violations in advance his regime's demise.
How many other things that take the fun out of your arguments are able to actually, factually change by stamping your feet in that way?
Perhaps you were not born, yet, when Saddam invaded and looted Kuwait? He agreed, as his foreces were being driven back, to all sorts of conditions. Among them, the no-fly zones that were set up to protect the people he was slaughtering in the north and south of Iraq. Agreeing to those no-fly zones included stipulations about the authority of coaltion aircraft patroling the skies in those zones. Saddam's armed forces then set about, for years shooting at those aircraft, in direct violation of the agreements he made in order to end the Kuwait-related conflict. His continual and violent violation of those terms, right there, put him in breach of the agreement that took his regime out of the line of fire. The fact that the UN continued to approve new sanctions in reaction to his blocking of inspectors, ongoing manufacturing of long-range missiles (which he had agreed to not only cease importing/making, but to destroy), etc
Disengenuous? That's you. Your decision to ignore the actual facts doesn't change them. And to the extent that you spin your disregard for those facts as part of your absurd call for "war crimes" trials just shows you as the politically motivated liar that you are.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.