550 tons of yellowcake was found in Iraq. From the LA times, dated July 6, 2008:
MONTREAL — The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached this Canadian port Saturday, completing a secret U.S. operation that included an airlift from Baghdad and a voyage across two oceans.
The removal of about 550 tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for high-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Hussein’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried that the cache would fall into the hands of insurgents or Shiites hoping to advance Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.
Way to go Bachman on the “Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act”. Americans of all people should be able to choose freely the kind of light bulb they use. The fact that florescent bulbs contain Mercury, and you have to call HAZMAT if one breaks makes it even more outrageous. How many people actually recycle their florescent bulbs? To show how ridiculous the Environmentalists are, what is all that Mercury in our landfills going to do? Read more about the “Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act”
Are we winning in Iraq? Let’s see what al-Qaeda said in February 2008:
“Brothers, the truth is that I admire the intelligence of the present Crusader, General Petraeus, for through his intelligence and cleverness he was able to achieve in one month what his colleagues couldn’t achieve in five years. . . . After the sly Petraeus became in charge, he started to play his game with us unfairly. We established the Islamic State of Iraq, so he established the Awakening Council to fight it by the method of guerilla warfare, and they started setting up booby traps for the Mujahideen and detonated the explosive packages on them. Al-Furqan Media Foundation was formed, so he established a media council to defame the S[t]ate and to erase it media productions.”
I keep hearing that McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. The libs are making it sound like we will be in Iraq fighting this war for 100 years which is bogus. The reality is that we are still in every major country that we have ever had a war with that was successful. We are still in Germany, Japan, South Korea, well you get the picture. I kept wondering where this came from? Did McCain say this in a speech? No it was in answering a question. Here is the video.
I plan on writing an article on the pentagon report on Saddam’s papers. There is so much information that ties Saddam actively to terrorist groups. Saddam was training, paying, and supporting terrorist actions both inside and outside of Iraq specifically against US and Israeli interests. What we do know is that Saddam issued hundreds of passports to known terrorists (p.19, p.27). He actively provided training for terrorists and financed terrorist actions. (p.21,p.27) To say Al-Qaeda was not in Iraq before the US invasion is an outright lie. Not surprising is the fact that the MSM has completely ignored this document other than stating there is no smoking gun. The preface states this, but there is so much in this document that should be front page news. The liberal bias of the MSM is again seen in the blatant suppressing of the information within this document.
The main stream media would have you think that there is no link between Iraq and Al Qaeda and certainly Al Qaeda was not in Iraq prior to the US Invasion. The reality is Iraq had known ties to Al Qaeda. The evidence is overwhelming so much so that the 9/11 victims won a court case against Iraq tieing Iraq to 9/11. Here is a quote from Barack Obama continuing to propagate the myth that there were no ties of Iraq to Al Qaeda.
“At the time the President uttered those words, there was no hard evidence that Iraq had those stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. There was not any evidence that Iraq was responsible for the attacks of September 11, or that Iraq had operational ties to the al Qaeda terrorists who carried them out. By launching a war based on faulty premises and bad intelligence, President Bush failed Wilson’s test. So did Congress when it voted to give him the authority to wage war.
Five years have gone by since that fateful decision. This war has now lasted longer than World War I, World War II, or the Civil War. Nearly four thousand Americans have given their lives. Thousands more have been wounded. Even under the best case scenarios, this war will cost American taxpayers well over a trillion dollars. And where are we for all of this sacrifice? We are less safe and less able to shape events abroad. We are divided at home, and our alliances around the world have been strained. The threats of a new century have roiled the waters of peace and stability, and yet America remains anchored in Iraq.
History will catalog the reasons why we waged a war that didn’t need to be fought, but two stand out. In 2002, when the fateful decisions about Iraq were made, there was a President for whom ideology overrode pragmatism, and there were too many politicians in Washington who spent too little time reading the intelligence reports, and too much time reading public opinion. The lesson of Iraq is that when we are making decisions about matters as grave as war, we need a policy rooted in reason and facts, not ideology and politics.”
