My RW FIL sent me this garbage and I am not sure how to respond. I think the real truth lies in the fact that all of the yellow cake was from before the first gulf war. Any thoughts?
>Subject: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq.
>Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:00:26 -0400
>
>On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled:
Secret
>U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq.
>
>
>The opening paragraph is as follows:
>
>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.
>
>See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the
>far-left for more than five years how, Bush lied. Somehow, that slogan
>loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam's yellowcake,
used
>for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to
Canada
>for its new use as nuclear energy.
>
>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
>blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie
about
>Saddam's nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would
>report the story. Once the AP released t he story, the mainstream
media
>should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.
>
>This 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 Mayaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that
>there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake 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
blogosphere
>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. The rest of the American people
should
>hear the truth about Saddam's uranium. It is up to you and me to
inform
>them every chance we get.
>
>As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say
that,
>'Bush lied,' we should tell them to, 'Have the yellowcake and eat it
too.'
>
>
>This story was verified, if you want to check it for yourself, click
on the
>links below.
>
>
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm>
>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334
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