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550 Tons Of Saddam’s ‘Yellowcake’ Reached Canada — Didja Know That?

Posted By: 'Okie' | 1:07 pm — 7/6/2008 | 2 Comments See comments below:

I just got finished my Sunday AM ritual of thumbing through the dead-tree edition of the Los Angeles Times. The AP-sourced article referred to in this post’s title, Uranium from Iraq reaches Canada was in the ‘A’ section, but not on page one, hmmmm, nothing about it in the little blog-inspired daily-wrap-up on page two either. Back on page six they print it. I’m sure it hurt the hell out o’ ‘em to feel like they had to do so, this giving President Bush some props and all. To give them some credit, they did at least print it — and have it on their website as well. In the past, sometimes, those two things haven’t been able to be said. Here’s the gist:

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.

What’s 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 Iraqis recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.

There’s a lot more, so go and read it at the source. Another thing you gotta know in your heart — the Lefties must have their sphincters puckered up real tight to read about the existence of all of Saddam’s Yellowcake stockpiles — given their hyperventilation over ol’ Valerie Plame’s husband’s report that Saddam wasn’t tryin’ to get more yellowcake from Niger ia — nah, good ol’ Saddam would never have wanted MORE nuclear weapons’ raw materials.

Not to mention (oh, why not go ahead?) the Maliki government being with it enough to have Iraqis trained at a former nuclear disaster site and putting together a deal with a Canadian company that results in Iraq getting some big bucks in return.

Nope, the Left certainly won’t like folks having the opportunity to discover that — so, page six it is — buried a bit, no flags, bells or whistles . . . shhhhhhh. Don’t tell nobody.

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  • Glenn Speck

    A pity it comes so late in W’s second term, but this does finally answer the rhetorical question the left wingers have caustically spouted for so long: “Vot iss de effidence?” “Where are the WMDs?”

    Yellow cake was right there to be concentrated and make nukes to terrorize this entire planet, just as the idiotic Iranian leadership is now doing. A more powerful WMD is hard to imagine.

    Only a really stupid liberal thinks that the world is not a better place without Saddam. It will be a better place after the Iranians have been slapped down whether it is Israel, the U.S. or both that show them, yet again, the error of their ways.

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