This original information appeared in 2010 as a result of the discoveries within the Wikileaks 400,000 page document dump. I’m reposting it again today because someone must keep history accurate. The information below is totally divergent from what the media writing of history proclaims. It is good to know truth, the historical truth, and not the spin placed upon us by the media machine(s). And if you ever find yourself in one of those conversations with a prog who claims “George Bush lied”, well, you can put them straight. Read on……
The WikiLeaks de facto declassification of privileged material makes it case closed: Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction — and intended to restart his program once the heat was off.
President George W. Bush, in the 2003 State of the Union address, uttered the infamous “16 words”: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson sprang into action and, in an op-ed piece, in effect wrote, “No, the Cheney administration sent me to investigate the allegation — and I found it without merit.”
Put aside that Wilson’s CIA-employed wife, not the evil Vice President Dick Cheney — as Wilson implied — sent him on the African errand. Put aside that the British still stand by the intelligence on which Bush made the claim. And put aside that the anti-Bush Washington Post, in an editorial, concluded that Wilson had lied about not finding evidence to support the Iraq-in-Africa-for-uranium claim, since he told the CIA the opposite when he reported back from Africa.
Bush claimed that Iraq sought uranium, specifically “yellowcake.” What is yellowcake, and why would its presence or attempted acquisition corroborate the nearly unanimous assumption that Saddam possessed WMD?
The Associated Press called yellowcake “the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment” and said that it “also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.”
“Bush and Iraq: Follow the Yellow Cake Road” headlined a euphoric Time magazine July 2003 piece — written when the Bush administration began backtracking from the Iraq-sought-uranium-from-Africa claim. Time said no yellowcake equals no WMD equals bogus basis for war.
The article led with this ripper: “Is a fib really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth? That question appears to be the basis of the White House defense, having now admitted a falsehood in President Bush’s claim, in his State of the Union address, that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa.”
Time hoisted (the now discredited) Joe Wilson on its shoulders as The Man Who Told the Truth to Power: “Just last weekend, the man sent by the CIA to check out the Niger story broke cover and revealed that he had thoroughly debunked the allegation many months before President Bush repeated it.” Never mind that the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Wilson’s report “lent more credibility to the original Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports on the uranium deal” sought by Iraq in Niger.
Let’s recap.
Bush, in building the case for war against Iraq, lied to the nation. He falsely claimed that Iraq was attempting to purchase yellowcake from Africa. Time magazine specifically referred to the yellowcake “lie” in accusing Bush of fabricating the case for war. Therefore, were Iraq to have had yellowcake — an assertion called a “lie” — it would have confirmed the presence of WMD, giving credence to Bush’s declaration of Iraq as a “grave and gathering threat.”
But … there … was… yellowcake. This brings us back to WikiLeaks.
Wired magazine’s contributing editor Noah Shachtman — a nonresident fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution — researched the 400,000 WikiLeaked documents released in October. Here’s what he found: “By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins and uncover weapons of mass destruction(emphasis added). … Chemical weapons, especially, did not vanish from the Iraqi battlefield. Remnants of Saddam’s toxic arsenal, largely destroyed after the Gulf War, remained. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict — and may have brewed up their own deadly agents.”
In 2008, our military shipped out of Iraq — on 37 flights in 3,500 barrels — what even The Associated Press called “the last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program”: 550 metric tons of the supposedly nonexistent yellowcake. The New York Sun editorialized: “The uranium issue is not a trivial one, because Iraq, sitting on vast oil reserves, has no peaceful need for nuclear power. … To leave this nuclear material sitting around the Middle East in the hands of Saddam … would have been too big a risk.”
Now the mainscream media no longer deem yellowcake — the WMD Bush supposedly lied about — a WMD. It was, well, old. It was degraded. It was not what we think of when we think of WMD. Really? Square that with what former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean said in April 2004: “There were no weapons of mass destruction.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow goes even further, insisting, against the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that “Saddam Hussein was not pursuing weapons of mass destruction”!
Bush, hammered by the insidious “Bush Lied, People Died” mantra, endured one of the most vicious smears against any president in history. He is owed an apology.
When Hollywood makes “The Vindication of George W. Bush,” maybe Sean Penn can play the lead.
Ironic isn’t it? I always believed him.
I also thought Global Warming was a bunch of hooey. Guess I’m not a nut job after all.
“I used chemical weapons which I manufactured against my tribal enemies in the north, then purchased one type of urainium to build new weapons, which is evidence that i possessed neither”….. Sadam Hussain
“Iraq is a threat we must deal with”… George Bush
“Liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”…. communist media
I never doubted Iraq having WMD. But I viewed going after them as a side step. The terrorists from 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia. We should have gone to the heart of the problem and brought the war to them for harboring and assisting the attack. As long as we have friends like the Saudis we won’t need enemies.
I’m contemplating the hypothetical bombing of Mecca. It’s giving me warm fuzzies. Somewhere, in an alternate dimension . . . *sigh* . . .
I get pissed because even IF he lied, isn’t it up to Congress to make the determination whether we should go to war? If they believed him without doing their own investigation before allowing the war to start, they are just as at fault IMO.
That said, I always figured Hussein realized he was going to be a target 1. when W got into office to avenge his daddy and 2. when the Twin Towers went down. He started moving stuff out probably on Jan. 20, 2001.
There is no “ungodly” answer to this mess. The FACTS that we need to deal with that are the real threats against our people, country and our Christian (supposedly) country is this. Islam IS, HAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE EVIL! Now that might offend some of you but that is the FACT that we must see . You have to know your enemy in order to fight him. And we in our weak pathetic state as apostates to our own God have not the courage, guts or fortitude to stand up to call evil for what it is, evil. This is one of the very reasons they attacked GEORGE W. BUSH so fast and cruel. He had the wisdom and guts to actually call the terrorist EVIL. Thus creating a line drawn in the sand where Americans had to choose and actually make a choice in their own hearts the existence of evil. You saw a movement start and people come together and actually get a chance to write, sing, yell, dance and finally proclaim what some of us are waiting for. Evil is here and exist and is on our front door attacking us. No spin possible from the media. They tried but FOX NEWS took over. People are sick of the lies. But here is the problem. No one wants to stir the pot. We don’t have the guts to STAND THE HE’LL UP ON OUR FEET because of our sins. Yes sin makes us weak. When we partake of their bread, worldliness and all the the sins that eventually put out out lantern (eyes) to our soul. If this were not true then there would not be one of us who wouldn’t have voted for Rick Santorum. A man with values which this country needs right now. No we are scared that he doesn’t have a chance to win (fear does it every time) so we go with what we think will be the next best thing. We get what we deserve and it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. We have to go through the fire to be purified and regain our beauty and strength and decide once and for all we’ve had enough. Oh we cry out to God when we get poked in the eye, but as soon as that eye is a little better we put God back on the shelf and keep Him at a distance so we can continue our lives doing our own will and occasionally hoping that it is Gods will too. History continues to repeat itself and we will never learn.
I don’t know about everyone else, but regarding Rick Santorum for me it ain’t about his heart, it’s about his intellect. I don’t think he doesn’t stand a chance because of his values, I think he doesn’t stand a chance because he doesn’t have a clue how to actually do the things he says he believes in.
I like Rick Santorum the man, father, patriot. But I really like the guy at my local bakery too. Heck, I like a lot of people. That doesn’t mean they posess the skillset to be POTUS.
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And BO does hummmmmm
And you surround yourself with good leaders and cabinet. Members. Well what the heck it dont matter anyway well just deal with robomney care.
Yeah there is no room for the spirit to lead mans lives. No faith we put our trust in other than our own and of course that is what got us into this mess in the first place. If you have a candidate that is a Godly, good and upright man, then he will be better off for this country than one who isn’t! No man has to lead by what our intellect tells us. Much different than faith. Jus sayin
SD, I read somewhere that Santorum reminded (the writer) of a Jesuit reprimanding his class; I was taught by the Jevi’s – he nailed it. Add that to your local baker list.
My not backing Santoum has nothing to do with fear and whether I think he can win. I don’t back him because he is a big-government nanny stater. He, just like the left, wants to tell people how to live their lives. To paraphrase Newt, right wing social engineering is no better than left wing social engineering. We need to encourage people to look to themselves, their families, their communities and their churches–not to government–to solve their problems.
Why can’t we create an amalgam of Paul, Newt and Santorum with Mitten’s hair? After all, the resulting Frankenstein Monster won’t be as horrible as the one created by Alinsky, Davis, Dorn and Marx (Karl, not Groucho).
I know!!
sorry…I still wouldn’t want a poultice consisting of Mitt anywhere on my government.
As you said… identify your enemy. Islam was our enemy before the idea of America existed. Refer back to this great Allen West clip. Which candidate is willing to publicly agree with this sentiment?
It is politically correct to turn away from the threat of radical Islam. It seems to be understood that politicians fear exposing this threat because of the political fallout from the aghast public who support the faceless Palestinian movement in a vague feel good way, not really having a clue who or what they think they are talking about. The fact is that if governments exposed this radical terrorist movement completely, if they had never made it go underground in the sense that the public is unaware of the truth and the threat, this would not have become politically incorrect. If the governments had not hidden the fact that Islamacists want to enforce Sharia, it would not have become possible. Politicians are not RE-acting to the public mood. They created it with their cowardice, and their own agenda.
To he’ll with politically being correct. Fat chance anyone is saying that when they are dying at the hands of theses evil doers. While we be politically being correct we lose more and more little pieces that they take and then it becomes too late without suffering. I don’t like any of the candidates much. But I do know that we need a man who knows God personally and a good man to repair some of the damage that has been done. I think there has been a lot of “sell outs” when they preach God, Family and Country and then endorse someone who doesn’t represent what they have been preaching. They just answer for it someday.
At about the 1:55 mark, they guys on either side of Col. West visibly moved away from him. He nailed it.
One of my favorite historical figures – and the man who is primarily responsible for saving the West from Islam – is Charles Martel. Sadly, most people haven’t a clue who he was.
I do– because I did several reports on Charlemagne in high school, and Chuck the Hammer was his grand-daddy . . . ^_^
So named ‘Cuz he beat all dat Moose-limb ass wit’ his big ol’ wa’-hamma’!
Sorry, I’m channeling my inner coon-ass. Dat be ‘cuz I dawn hat me some dat dere doity rice, sa’mawn creole and a reeeeeal nice lil’ ol’ shrimp etouffe fo’ mah lawnch!
MMM-m, chile, ‘sawl ri’! Takes me back to my time in Nawlns, had friends from the bayou. . .
And yes, so named because he when he cut, he cut like a hamma!
The history channel today ran a segmant on Charles The Hammer Martel perhaps you would like to review same.
I saw it.
Too many idiots see that he was “French” (actually a Frank) and dismiss him as anything important.
“When Hollywood makes ‘The Vindication of George W. Bush,’ maybe Sean Penn can play the lead.”
Ahhhhhh……. No. Way. There ain’t enough Phenergran in the world to keep me from hurling buttery popcorn through my nose at the sight of that wasted blob of protoplasm playing Dubya!
But I hear what you’re sayin’….
This is one of my favorite pics of W, holding that NYPD shield – reverently – in his hand…