Have you seen this document? The intelligence seems to way predate the build-up to war, so I doubt there is anything in it our intelligence agencies didn't know. The unclassified status of the document should tell us a lot about its value. Does Terry Frank and the Department of Energy have more info on Iraq than Congress or the POTUS? I think this is not exactly caps lock worthy. Yet.
Sorry, I missed the HUGE NEWS post and was ignorant of the fact that "the Frank family is on a war path!" I now see they are taking a familiar path. I will try and stay more up to date.
When will the press pick up on the unsubstantiated claims of a Knoxville blogger? I don't know. But as far as finding millions of pounds of a naturally occuring mineral, that isn't really breaking news. The press already reported back in 2004 that the US removed a couple tons of low-level enriched Uranium from Iraq.
Uh...and Bush has already stated that there were no WMD's. Unbelievable.
Bill
I would say I know Terry good enough to know that she would not put up something without strong proof to back it up. We will see. To me and many others I think it is still news. I still see "Bush lied people died" bumper stickers. I still hear "Sadam had no WMDs, no plans to get or make WMDs" I think this kills those arguements.
When she provides proof will you admit Bush was telling the truth and his reasons leading up to the war were true? I doubt it. For some people it will never be enough. I expect what you will say then will be to the effect of "Well, it is still Bushs fault the war is going badly" "It is not enough proof""people are still dead" ect., ect.
If you don't like the war I understand but your reason should be based on facts not bumper stickers.
As I said in my last post. To some "My country right or wrong" has turned into "my agenda right or wrong". I should have added "My country is wrong even when it is right".
One more point. Why do you think Saddam wanted all this uranium? I think most people will realize it was to make WMDs. (I am not sure but was that another violation of one of his many agreements) I doubt he wanted it to make a nuclear power plant. I think he had enough power from oil production. Nuclear would have been in competition with his countries main money making export.
Rep, you seriously don't understand foreign politics then. Many oil producing nations want Nuclear power so that the oil produced will mean more money flowing in from around the world.
I won't dispute that he would have liked to have Nuclear weapons, most countries under the constant threat of takeover by a foreign power would; however it's not always black and white. There are legitimate needs for countries such as Iran or Iraq to build their Nuclear power sources, however, those needs must be weighed with the rest of the world's need to feel secure against the threat of one of these countries getting a Nuclear Weapon.
We have plenty of coal in the United States, but we invest in alternative energies (such as Nuclear Power), because we don't want to have to rely on one power source.
Sean,
From Terry's post
"While less than 1% of the yellowcake stored in the one site would be U-235 (weapons isotope), 1% of 1 million pounds would be enough U-235 to produce a lot of weapons. So far there is no evidence to show that Saddam had modern capabilities to process the U-235, however, he did possess WWII era enrichment equipment called calutrons—kind of the Model-T of enrichment equipment. Also, Saddam had tried to import enforced aluminum tubing which some think could be used to build centrifuge enrichment process—the modern method of enriching uranium."
I dont think that that part is energy related. It looks to me as if he had assembeled the parts as part of a plan to start a nuclear weapons program. If I am wrong please correct me, But I think that was part of a resolution pledge he had made.That he would not start a nuclear weapons program. A resolution that many thought was broken and thus the war. If it is proven to be true. Then even if you do not like the war it still validates the reasons for the war. A huge bone of contention for many people.
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