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It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this
information and the uranium itself for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our
military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.
This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left
pundits on the blogo-sphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam's nuclear ambitions, one
would think that the mainstream media would report the true story. Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media
should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.
That never happened, due in large part, I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong
about Bush's war motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, "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."
Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy? Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush lied? As it turns
out, the people who lied were Joe Wilson and his wife.
Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a fact finding mission in
February 2002, seeking to determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger. The CIA and British
intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose but needed proof.
During his trip to Niger, Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told
Wilson that in June of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in "expanding commercial relations" for the purposes of
purchasing yellowcake.
Wilson chose to overlook Mahaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase
yellow cake from Niger.
However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of the
Union address in January of 2003. Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New
York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush.
Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the yellowcake from Niger. The Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who was opposed
to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime minister's statements.
It was a simple tactic, really. If the far-left and their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting
to purchase yellowcake from Niger, it would undermine President Bush's credibility and give them more cause for asking what
other lies he may have told.
Yet the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the prime minister's statements and concluded all by
himself that the claim of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was "unequivocally wrong." Curiously the CIA sat on this
information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public in a
bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.
Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that the Bush Administration outed her as a CIA
agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage - no friend of the Bush administration - who leaked Plame's identity to the
press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years.
The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media, and their left-wing
friends on the blogo-sphere engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam's uranium
has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and
admit they were wrong?
Don't count on it.
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Re: Лживый Финт убил Хусейна!
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