…and in a paragraph. No one does it better.
The country goes into a fevered state over whether there was or was not yellowcake for sale to Saddam down in Niger. The result is that a Special Prosecutor—charged with finding out who leaked the name of a CIA employee as retaliation for her husband’s (wrong) finding that Niger did not wish to sell yellowcake—knew who leaked Ms. Plame’s identity, and knew that she was not a covert agent anyway. Instead Prosecutor Fitzgerald indicts someone else—who happens to be the real target of a hysterical Washington media. Meanwhile with no more than a tsk, tsk, we learn that 1.2 million pounds of Saddam’s yellowcake have been sitting all the time in storage in Iraq, and are now quietly sold off to the Canadians. Dispute over a few ounces of yellowcake in Africa tie up DC for a year, while tons of the stuff sit quitely in Iraq in leaky drums.
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This post was written by bobsikes on July 9, 2008
550 Metric Tons of Yellowcake, what about it? (see video) US removes Uranium from Iraq, not what many assume see video http://tinyurl.com/6zdq3w
Tom: Thanks for contributing. However, in this post Proffesor Hanson links the Wilson’s assertions that Saddam was attemting to acquire WMDs. Your denials to the contrary, the persence of the yellowcake is a significant danger. And t he did have the capabilty to restart his program. Wilson was found to have lied in a Senate report on a number of issues. There also is no basis for your characterization that the Iraq War was illegal