This article from the AP was posted yesterday, reporting the sale and transport of 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada. Some of the leading right wing blogs were quick to hail the find as a significant victory for the Bush administration and proof of Saddam’s WMD program, but as Daniel De Groot at Open Left Points out, their celebrations may be a bit premature, if not dishonest:
I noted last night that a supply of uranium from Iraq had been successfully moved to Montreal in secrecy.
If you check into this, you’ll quickly find that the uranium a) was not weapons grade and b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam’s government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.
I wondered if the right wing echo chamber would use this as “proof” that the WMD claims were true after all. I got even better than I hoped, as not only do they use it that way, but they reveal how dishonest they are by the way they have done this.
Top recommended post at Redstate:
Yellowcake uranium found in Iraq, Saddam’s legacy, Bush was right!
Well…not so much.
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What is the purpose of non-weapon grade yellow cake
Angel food frosting?
ysbaddaden @ 1:
8th grade science fair project.
The right wing bloggers must be pumping overtime — with spittle and jizm flying all over keyboard and screen. Yuk.
They live in fear and I am convinced that they need fear to get a woody.
The 1981 Niger sale produced the forged documents used in the run up to the invasion. Unfortunately the Italians exposed those documents because Cheney’s twits forgot to change the letterhead, which was from the 1981 Nigerian administration. Just one of the fabrications we were given to whip us into a war frenzy.
OMG this story again? it was pre-1991 non-weapons grade used for nuclear reactors. The UN knew about it. Jesus god thiere is no dumb like republican dumb.
And to state the obvious . . . IF any WMDs were found is there anyone on planet Earth that doesn’t believe Bush and Cheny wouldn’t be screaming “told ya so”? I read about the iraq yellow cake at least 1 years ago. God these people are morons.
Is Canada in cahoots with illegal activity now? How long till we’re the fourth partner in the axis-of-evil? Invade, invade.
Honestly, if the stuff is in Montreal now, does anyone think it was inteded to manufacture weapons. I mean, we are NATO members. If there was anything fishy…
Big non-story.
We all know that this will be in the MSM for the next two weeks. And just like the non-existant Al Gore statement about being the “creator of the internet”, no MSM outlet will look further than the fact that it “vindicates the President and Condi’s statements” even though it could never lead to a “smoking gun like a mushroom cloud”. They report just enough to make it a talking point among those who want to support Bush and who tend to only read screaming headlines.
Oh, they will also balance it by saying that the Democrats agree that there was yellowcake uranium in Iraq, but they don’t think that was important.
But why are they moving it now? Would this stuff become dangerous when (not if) we start nuking Iran? Everything this regime does smells…
2 I Like Pie Says: ysbaddaden @ 1:
What is the purpose of non-weapon grade yellow cake
Angel food frosting?
8th grade science fair project.
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Like the Pepto-Bismol spewing volcano?
Guys, Yellowcake is Uranium pentoxide. That is the naturally occuring _ore_ of uranium. Its how it is separated from the surrounding rock. Its not only not “weapons grade”, its not even the refined metal, far less undergone isotope enrichment.
To enrich the isotopes, you need to make it Uranium Hexafloride, (not for use on teeth…), which is about the only known gaseous form of uranium.
Once refined… and possibly enriched, there is absolutely no reason in the world to turn it back into the ore of uranium.
Yellowcake is used commercially to make a urine-colored yellow glass that no one in their right mind wants….
If this uranium transfer to Canada was such a big deal, wouldn’t the Bush administration have talked it up in 2002, 2003, 2004…? Wouldn’t they have used this as “proof” of WMDs instead of the “16 words” claim about uranium from Africa?
The willingness of the right wing nutjobs to cite this as “proof” that Bush was correct is grounded either ignorance or dishonesty. Given their previous track record, I think we know which.
Yellowcake uranium found in Iraq, Saddam’s legacy, Bush was right!
Iraq crashed into the World Trade Center.
Didn’t see anyone talking about the fact that Iraqis were emptying barrels for use as water storage containers-low levels of radiation but still not a good idea. Just one more way we fu*ked up- we were too busy guarding the Oil Ministry to pay attention to museums or anything else. The Hague is missing about 15 people.
I’m more worried about the pink cakes
Found in every American urinal.
I can already hear Hannity screaming “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” tomorrow on the radio.
I’ll bet Rush gets it on his show too.
I remember one funny classified message in the Air Force.
I was only sworn to secrecy for 10 years, and I’ve been out for 26 years.
A bombing attempt was foiled in a Middle-East country.
Plastic explosives were disguised as a popular candy bar in the aread, presumably with some kind of firing cap
And place into a candy machine.
Over a billion taxpayer dollars wasted by the Bush Administration on propaganda and the lowest approval rating of any President in US History.
Incompetence at its finest.
I don`t normally go to right wing sites,but I just went over to Redstate and read a couple of comments.Delusion is an interesting phenomena.These guys are remarkably dense.The second post laid out the truth,but after that delusion abounds.Now I truly understand what we`re up against.Amazing!
I have just read nearly seventy posts at Red State. A few seemed fairly reasonable if somewhat misguided.
Many were simply seeing a different planet.
Their favorite quote is:
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
This from the actor, who knew NOTHING, though he read the script well enough.
Chimpy knows less than NOTHING and cannot string two coherent English sentences together.
My but our standards have fallen.
Good Work But Liars Never Stop Trying
Dam is legacy. If this president can get this illegal war off his back, he will settle for not committing genocide. Right now, the facts are we invaded a country for the wrong reasons. In doing that invasion, many innocent people were killed. In fact, close to a million people were killed. That makes Bush’s actions genocide.
Logan Murphy disproved this claim in a matter of seconds. It appears Murphy knows the Republicans tactics; he knows they wont stop trying to vindicate their conservative ally. I am surprised it took this long to make such a claim.
Joseph
Was this yellowcake mined / extracted from Iraq itself? Iran also has naturally occurring uranium reserves. Uranium is found all over the earth pretty much, even trace amounts are in sea water. Here in the USA Native Americans do the mining of it so that they can die of cancer to feed our nuclear reactors.
How are we supposed to tell countries that they can’t mine their own natural resources?
Elton John Sings ‘Goodbye Yellowcake Road’
Give…us…a…fuckin’…..break.
gulf of tonkin anyone?
They have no credibility.zero.
All Franken got it right. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Actually at the beginning of the war Greenpeace was on this story and provided the definitive coverage. I don’t know if any of their coverage is cached or not, but I was following it closely after we invaded Iraq and before the invasion became an occupation. Greenpeace was eventually forced out of Iraq and had no way of following up, but their coverage was compelling.
People were grabbing the yellowcake barrels, throwing the yellowcake away, and using the barrels for catching drinking water. I have no doubt that we well see generations of of health problems for the Iraqis!
oh my the gop is right on everything……….lol
i guess they will next tell us that cheney brings up
the sun each day……….the reichwingneocons are
all due lobotomies….and this should happen at birth
to avoid any future spin on reality.
Just more proof that life was better under Saddam. Iraq is now stone age, thanks to the caveman in the white house.
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The LIE!
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Oh man, it was painful reading the comments on that site.
I love this one:
“If you ask people on the street if Saddam had Uranium my bet is you would see spikes determined entirely by the MSM and their access to other sources of information. The MSM has done an incredible job disseminating the Saddam was harmless idea.”
Uhh, wasn’t it the MSM who whipped everyone up into a lust for war?
And another favorite:
“the issue, it’s moot. You will hear crickets chirping.
Don’t get me wrong, I happen to think that there were WMD’s (likely in the Bekka Valley & Syria now) but GWB has been so utterly feckless and spineless about taking on the Enemy at Home that it’s a pointless exercise now.
Just as Carter & Clinton’s non-actions spurred on aQ, GWB’s non-actions have spurred on the Dems.”
Ahh, yes the grand Muslim conspiracy to hide the WMD’s that were never found. Carter? He was president long before Al Qaeda existed.
A visit to the land of the trolls can be frightening.
The rightwingers will take it even if it doesn’t prove anything. This and Obama’s forged birth certificate…another conspiracy they dry hump all day at redscare.com
every time.. EVERY time yellow cake is mentioned, i get hungry. i want cake right now. yellow cake with chocofrosting. im going to the store right now. im gonna buy 3 boxes of cake and make one tonite. so there.
Edwin Hussein @ 6:
No. Cameco bought the stuff legally from the Iraqi government to reprocess into nuclear fuel.
It seems every Friedman unit or so the right wingers roll out this five-year old story?
I see Pammy of Nazareth has been pumping this meme all weekend.
Alice X (Chomsky Nader) @ 19:
Have you ever observed that the louder someone is, the less intelligent they seem to be? Those posters at Red State are an excellent example. The ones who are most confident in their ‘facts’ and persistent in expressing those ‘facts’ seem to be complete morons.
History will vindicate the bush presidency.
Seriously, if the U.S. is around for the next 300 to 400 years, statistically speaking, one of those presidents will be worse than bush.
Then we’ll see who laughs!
Until then…I’m going with “dumbass.”
This stuff has been sitting around unloved and unguarded for over five years in Iraq,
then suddenly its shipped to Canada with full MSM coverage in the run up to the election…
Corey Carroll @ 21:
the US army and Blackwater!
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 36:
I know its hard to believe, but maybe the Bushies are doing this for political reasons! Imagine that.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 36:
yeah!
whoodathunk the reichwing Canadian Prez would conspire with the american repugs to resurrect a lie by the boosh admin and treat the lie as prophecy.
whoodathunk the AP, with rupert murdick on the board of directors, would put forth the story to help McC*nt, who’s slipping in the polls and at the podium like he stepped on a banana peel?
and who thinks this won’t get a mention on CNN Fux and the threeNBCs tomorrow. something has to replace the story of the collapsing economy. heaven forbid they find space in their broadcast for the word, recession.
Early Oct surprise. They couldn’t wait any longer . McCain needs all the help he can get. His campaign isn’t getting the traction they would like. SOoooooooo. Lookeee here, Look what we found.
fridgemagnet @ 31:
fridgemagnet! You rock, dude!
So they found a twinky and the right wing is getting all excited?
redstate is either one of the lyingest America hating sacks of shit ever or one of the stupidest!
It’s not so much that right-wingers *lie*, it’s that they simply don’t care what the facts are. A liar does at least acknowledge reality– if only to himself. These people just say whatever is convenient, and they call it “spin”.
If this was a smoking gun we would have been told about it in 04 when Bush almost lost the White House.
This ain’t just about neocons, the “plot” is to turn Ontario-o-o-OH into the butthole of the world. This has been planned since 1998, in fact. They dump the depleted uranium canisters from the Isreali wars on indigenous land! But the dimwit lamestream media don’t tell the truth about ANYTHING. (the uranium was probably mined in Pakistan with the hearty approval of AQ Khan.)
The right wing also seizes on the sort of BS proof that Noahs Ark existed or the God exists and created the world 6000 years ago.
They are used to this level of deceit and deliberate ignorance.
We need to be on guard of the MSM running with it.
Fox, of course, gets a free pass. a) We’d never be able to stop them anyway b) Fox viewers should continue to remain more ignorant of the reality they live it. It gives us hope of some Darwinian natural selection trimming their numbers.
NOW the lying will start in the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA, LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK, All of FOX TV NEWS, and maby even the ever fatfull WOLF BLITZER, and LIE-berman. I see a storm of comming the closer that election gets. Want to bet?
The yellowcakeiniraq storyline is a way to encourage a semi decent legacy for Bush. But the truth is people are more interested with the economy. Maybe if he could start thinking
about fixing it and working on it in the white house like any US president should before he leave office. Maybe he will not find a tub of feces smack on his face portrait when he revisited white house again.
Why was this buried in the news cycle?
Exactly. The same thing happened a couple years back when the 1980s-era chemical weapon expired “WMDs” were found. The administration and DoD weren’t making hay over it, yet the wingnut pundits claimed vindication. This just goes to show us that no matter what we think of the Bush administration, many members of the 28-percent would be FAR more dangerous in the White House, with access to the red button.
I just read the posts at RedState (whats with the Communist labels the right embraces?).
A valiant attempt is made by a