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Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It Too
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Christopher Merola
July 11, 2008
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 the 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.”
Christopher Merola is the Political Director for Political Media, Inc,
a political advertising and public relations firm in Washington, DC.
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