White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida

Wednesday 06th August, 06:42 AM JST

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cleo at 12:39 PM JST - 7th August

Not weapons grade?

That's right. From your own link - Five hundred tons of yellowcake uranium ore...could have been enriched to produce 142 nuclear weapons, meaning it was not enriched while Saddam had it.

standard yellowcake ore consists of 99 percent Uranium 238 [U238], "which is radioactive but is not used in normal nuclear weapons as it cannot sustain a chain reaction."

To cause a nuclear chain reaction, he noted, "you need U235, which only makes up less than 1 percent [0.7] of natural uranium."
Taka313 at 12:51 PM JST - 7th August

decided,

That British physicist (and the fact that you had to rely on a non-American to make a point really shows your desperation)...

was he the same guy who wrote this:

I said that Hamza’s evidence, which he had submitted to the US Senate, was carefully tailored nonsense: Iraq did not possess ‘ten tons of uranium and one ton of slightly enriched uranium . . . enough for three nuclear weapons’, as he testified, but five hundred tons of uranium – enough for 140 nuclear weapons. All five hundred tons were harmless, however: it would have needed to be enriched from around 1 per cent to at least 90 per cent uranium-235, before it could be used for weapons. Hamza told the Times that ‘the number of pirated centrifuges’ – to enrich the uranium – ‘that Baghdad has been able to produce, and the rapidity with which the reprocessing programme is being undertaken’, were the reasons for urgent action by the UK and US. But the pirated centrifuges were a figment of Hamza’s imagination: there were no centrifuges in place enriching uranium, and there was no centrifuge assembly plant. The September dossier alleged that Iraq had imported aluminium tubes for centrifuge production, but these were revealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to be rocket parts. Not only that: experts in the US and UK intelligence services knew that Iraq was manufacturing copies of the Italian Medusa 81 rocket and that the dimensions of the aluminium tubes matched the specifications of the rocket to a fraction of a millimetre.

By golly, I think he was.

Thanks for playing. We have some lovely parting gifts for you.

Taka
undecidedbout08 at 01:13 PM JST - 7th August

Tak - the sooner you get that GAO gig the better, eh? You can personally investigate why the Air Force made 37 flights, top secret, from Baghdad to Diego Garcia.
undecidedbout08 at 01:16 PM JST - 7th August

To cause a nuclear chain reaction, he noted, "you need U235, which only makes up less than 1 percent [0.7] of natural uranium."

Well then, cleo. Perhaps we can have all that yellowcake dumped in your prefecture?
cleo at 01:30 PM JST - 7th August

undecided -

No need, it seems the Canadians have already found a good home for it.

The fact that Saddam already had 500 tons of yellowcake kinda puts a ? over the claims in the State of the Union address that he was trying to buy it from Africa.
Taka313 at 02:57 PM JST - 7th August

decided, Wow. Top Secret flights? Sounds like it could be a conspiracy!

The deal culminated more than a year of intense diplomatic and military initiatives - kept hushed in fear of ambushes or attacks once the convoys were under way: first carrying 3,500 barrels by road to Baghdad, then on 37 military flights to the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia and finally aboard a U.S.-flagged ship for a 8,500-mile trip to Montreal.

So why would they worry about ambushes or attacks, you ask? Good question, considering that everything is supposedly going so well in Iraq. But, the answer is:

"The big problem comes with any inhalation of any of the yellowcake dust," said Doug Brugge, a professor of public health issues at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Thanks Doug.

And yes, I would absolutely LOVE a job at the GAO. I believe it would be as much fun as debunking your posts on this thread has been.

Taka
Madverts at 07:06 PM JST - 7th August

Taka, nice slap-down.

decided, at least give in gracefully. I hate a sore loser.

This reminds me of back in the day when you fired off a post titled (when we could) "Proof" and went on about tarra training camps that didn't exist with a bogus article fromt eh Weakley Standard.

It's quite amazing to find people still defending the lies upon lies upon lies that took you to Iraq.
undecidedbout08 at 03:01 AM JST - 8th August

[Yawn]

Guess we are back to convicted '93 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef.And his Iraqi passport. And Abu Nidal. And 2002 photos of Zarqawi in northern Iraq...
seansezso at 12:56 AM JST - 9th August

Guess we are back to convicted '93 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef.And his Iraqi passport.

And his Swedish passport? And his Pakistani passport? Bloke had a lot of passports. Iraqi intellegence just might have slipped him a passport. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, that is what I am thinking, if that is what happened.

And Abu Nidal? The bloke Saddam assassinated? Or the bloke who lived in Iraq at the time Rumsfeld was shaking hands with Saddam? Same bloke perhaps?

Northern Iraq? You mean the rebellious part of Iraq that defied Saddam and was out of his control?

Even in poker, it is necessary to have some cards even when bluffing mate.

And Abu Nidal.
TRUTHxHURTS at 01:20 PM JST - 10th August

Maybe I am crazy but I believe Osama Bin Laden has been dead for a long time. I believe he is gone. Where can this man hide for 6 years or whatever. I have seen his videos on CNN and all the major news networks and i never see him holding a current newspaper with the date. A person with commonsense can see right through this.
zurcronium at 12:16 AM JST - 11th August

No reasonable person now believes anything that bush says or doubts that they he did anything he could so he could illegally invade Iraq.

Yes, those WMDs are soon to be discovered . . . .
ReaganLegend at 12:28 AM JST - 11th August

Zucronium; The WMD`s were found a few years ago. There was quite a large amount of shells found buried, with chemical weapons.

The Nuclear material was moved before the war to Syria by Saddam`s son Uday.
undecidedbout08 at 12:32 AM JST - 11th August

Pretty clever post at 12:17, zurcronium. And lifted entirely from

http://www.topix.com/forum/source/orlando-sentinel/T2H81CP6M5D6UCL8P

You really ought to credit others when you use their work.
zurcronium at 04:16 AM JST - 12th August

ReaganL,

what? Pure myth. Look at the David Kay report or any other report on the missing WMD in Iraq. Fact-there were none. Only Rox news reports what you post and that is pure fatansy.

Undecided, with JT is peer reviewed let me know.
adaydream at 04:44 AM JST - 12th August

I agree zurcronium.

Hey, Links ReaganLegend.

When did they find these tons of Sarin gas? When did they move this WMD?

Don't pass along that fairy tale that it's buried underground in Syria. The story that has no creditability. The story that is so flimsy that it's not taken serious in the Whitehouse or Pentagon.

Yep, there was 550 Metric Tons of yellowcake just removed and sent to Canada that had been sitting in storage for 20 years. Never processeed. The centrifuge found when we attacked had been buried 12 years.

The Whitehouse denies the faking of the letter. Please, they faked the reports of WMD in Iraq. They faked the pictures shown at the UN as WMD and dual use vehicles. They were aware and complacent of the Pvt. Lynch rescue as being a staged rescue.

How can anyone, but a george bush supporter actually believe anything that comes out of the Whitehouse or Pentagon? < :-)