At least I happened to be catch the short piece with Brit Hume on Fox tonight - he at least MENTIONED it in passing. I'm betting none of the mainstream media did. Ho, hum, no big deal, right?
The US military apparently has just completed shipping the 600 TONS (!!!) of yellowcake urananium, discovered in Saddam's stockpile after the US invasion, from Iraq to Canada. Where it will be safer. It was not weapons grade, of course, or even enriched. What it was was the raw material to (re)develop a nuclear program at a later date, assuming anybody had any hankering to do so. I can't think of anyone who would have, can you?
So was this the stuff Saddam was trying to buy in Africa? Oh, no - as the NY Times and the International Herald Tribune, who actually (and no doubt grudgingly) had to report the story, this was NOT the same yellocake as in the Bush's "now discredited remarks in his state of the Union speech" in 2003, (they all use the same words as if on cue). Discredited, eh? By whom? Proven liar Joe Wilson?
In any event, the 600 tons of yellowcake uranium that Saddam had on hand was apparently insufficient.
600 Fooking TONS !!!
And it's all old news - not important. Just like the failure of the surge and our defeat in Iraq.
I guess, as I have long suspected, we are living in Bizzaro world, where nothing means anything any more. Time to focus on the hope for change, or the change of hope, or some such total BS.
MWL
