Saddam’s Nukes (yellowcake)
It’s a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad.In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel — thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region…
After all, much of the early opposition to the war in Iraq involved claims that President Bush “lied” about weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam posed little if any nuclear threat to the U.S.
This more or less proves Saddam in 2003 had a program on hold for building WMD and that he planned to boot it up again soon.
This is clear, since Saddam acquired most of his uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when invading U.S. troops found the stuff. (The International Atomic Energy Agency seems to have known about the yellowcake in the 1990s, but did nothing to force Saddam to get rid of it. It’s duplicating its error today with Iran and North Korea).
That means Saddam held onto it for more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start his WMD program anew.
posted Jul 9, 2008, 9:27pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
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This story reminds me of the one regarding those WMD’s Rick Santorum made a big deal about in 2006, when the Bush administration didn’t touch the story. I find it laughable that it is the media’s fault that the story doesn’t get out there. The President has perhaps more direct access to spread a message and information than nearly anyone in the world (perhaps aside from Coke or GE). When contradictory stories emerged from Iraq regarding the US’ claims prior to the war, the administration was able to keep their message in the public. If the White House wanted this to be a story, the administration would make it a story.