The Journal Times Online - Racine, Wisconsin

This came across my e-mail. I'll give bigfoot the challenge to proove it wrong. He loves to do things like that. I couldn't find anything to dispute the references at the end.

A national defense analyst says President Bush should be commended for 
keeping quiet about a discovery that could have blown his critics out of the 
water.

Retired Major General Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran who served 
as an Army aviator, paratrooper, and Ranger during a military career that 
began during the Korean conflict. He recently wrote about a very under 
reported story by the Associated Press.

According to the report, a large stockpile of concentrated natural Uranium, 
known as "yellowcake," reached a Canadian port to complete a top secret U.S. 
Operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad , and a ship voyage 
crossing two oceans. The Uranium material had been housed at20a former Iraqi 
nuclear complex 12 miles from Baghdad .

Curry says the president kept mum about the discovery in order to keep 
terrorists in the dark. "He made a very brave stand, a resolute stand..., in 
which he decided that he wasn't going to blab everything to the press," 
Curry commends. "...And in the meantime while he kept it quiet, he was 
buying time from the terrorists to get all that stuff out of the country. So 
that's what was done -- he just very quietly kept his mouth shut."

"The press beat him to death for the last several years," he continues, "and 
now it turns out that, yes, there were weapons of mass destruction...." 
Curry also maintains that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear program and 
the material could have been made into a nuclear weapon.

President Bush's actions took courage, he notes, and all Americans should be 
thankful to have such a brave president who puts the welfare of the American 
people above personal considerations.
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On July 5, 2008 , the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret 
U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq . The opening paragraph is as follows:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program (a huge stockpile 
of concentrated natural uranium) reached a Canadian port Saturday to 
complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from 
Baghdad an d a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

See anything wrong with this picture?

We have been hearing from the far left for more than five years how Bush 
lied. Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of 
Saddam's yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered 
and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy.

It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in
2003 after invading Iraq . They had to sit on this information and the 
uranium itself for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded 
and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand berms 
surrounding the site.

This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked 
mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the 
blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about 
Saddam's nuclear ambitions, one would think that the mainstream media would 
report the true story. Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media 
should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.

That never happened, due in large part, I believe, to the fact that the 
mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush's war 
motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, "The 
removal of 550 metric tons of yellowcake, the seed material for higher-grade 
nuclear enrichment, wa s a significant step toward closing the books on 
Saddam's nuclear legacy."

Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy? Did Saddam have a nuclear 
legacy after all? I thought Bush lied? As it turns out, the people who lied 
were Joe Wilson and his wife.

Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to 
send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to 
determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger . The CIA 
and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose 
but needed proof.

During his trip to Niger , Wilson actually interviewed the former prime 
minister of Niger , Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June 
of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in "expanding commercial 
relations" for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake.

Wilson chose to overlook Mahaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that there 
was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellow cake from Niger .

However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President 
Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 
2003. Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an 
op-ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush.

Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy 
the yellowcake from Niger . The Senat e Select Committee on Intelligence 
disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. This meant nothing to 
Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in 
covering up the prime minister's statements.

It was a simple tactic, really. If the far-left and their friends in the 
media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake 
from Niger , it would undermine President Bush's credibility and give them 
more cause for asking what other lies he may have told.

Yet the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the 
prime minister's statements and concluded all by himself that the claim of 
Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was "unequivocally wrong.." 
Curiously the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA 
Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public 
in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.

Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion 
that the Bush Administration outed her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it 
was Richard Armitage - no friend of the Bush administration - who leaked 
Plame's identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the 
field as a CIA agent in some six years.

The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, 
the mainstream media, and their left-wing friends on the b logo-sphere 
engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now 
that Saddam's uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the 
world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit 
they were wrong?

Don't count on it.

The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam's 
uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them.

As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that Bush 
lied, we should tell them to "have the yellowcake and eat it too."

For verification of this information, click on these links:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm