Remember the Bush comments about MI-6 telling us Iraq had sought to buy Nigerian Uranium, and the flood of howling mad democrats accusing Bush of lying? Well now that the truth is revealed, will we see the flood of apologies and corrections or do we want to bet the media never goes back to this story?
Here is the gist of the story:
Britain’s Financial Times reported Wednesday that an official British government inquiry into the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq has concluded that Britain’s MI-6 was correct to conclude that Saddam Hussein’s regime had sought to buy uranium ore from Niger.
We all know the controversy GW’s claims, which he attributed to the intelligence services of our British allies, about Iraq seeking uranium for its nuclear programs caused. Cries of “Bush Lied!” and where are the WMDs have died off recently, mostly because we are now finding proof of the WMD programs and the fact they where there and/or moved to neighbors before the war. In some cases, like this one where we took almost 2 metric tons of uranium out of the country so they could not enrich it into weapons grade material, we now have the UN busting our chops instead of admitting the WMDs are there.
So now who could the Brits, who claimed they got the uranium seeker story from another intelligence service be talking about?
“The Financial Times revealed last week that a key part of the UK’s intelligence on the uranium came from a European intelligence service that undertook a three year surveillance of an alleged clandestine uranium-smuggling operation of which Iraq was a part,” wrote reporter Mark Huband.
Huband doesn’t identify the “European intelligence service” in this or his earlier story. The scuttlebutt is that it was the DSGE, the French external intelligence service, which shared the intelligence with MI-6 only on the express condition that the Brits not share it with the United States.
And some people still don’t believe we need to bomb France next. Better yet, guess who else where also shopping for uranium:
In the earlier article, Huband said: “Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the U.S.-led invasion.” The other countries were North Korea, Iran, Libya and China.
Reads like a Who’s Who of monster countries (of course the libs, whom have never met an evil communist/socialist dictator or despot they did not love, will tell ya these countries have the right to seek nuclear weapons to deter the evil and aggressive US from making them clean up there acts).
And for the scientifically inclined that will point out that since this uranium sought in Niger, like the almost 2 metric tons we just took out of Iraq just the other day, was not suitable for bomb making I have this tidbit:
The uranium discovered was “low enrichment” (less than 20 percent U-235 isotope) and hence unsuitable for making atomic bombs. For that, centrifuges are necessary. Khidir Hamza, who headed Iraq’s nuclear program prior to his defection in 1994, said Iraq had obtained centrifuges from German sources. An attempt to smuggle in centrifuge components in 2002 was thwarted, several sources said.
And don’t forget this how the lefty media is ignoring reports that components of Iraqi missile systems — some of them radioactive — have been turning up in European scrap metal yards. Oh wait! They missiles where for medical purposes so this discovery means nothing….
Anyone recall the discovery in Iraq late in June by Polish troops of “16 or 17” artillery shells that tested positive for the nerve agent Sarin? Terrorists were trying to buy the shells for $5,000 each, Polish officials said. But 17 shells WMDs not make…
Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over doesn’t it?
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