With little fanfare compared to the tired old “Bush lied; troops died” refrain, we now know that Saddam had stockpiled 550 tons of yellow cake. It has recently been in the news as sold and shipped to a Canadian company.

Clearly our invasion stopped this material from being developed into nuclear fuels and weapons. And the leaks about yellow cake from Niger that was the basis for the Valerie Plame case also indicated that Bush wasn’t lying.

I assume the apologies from his opposition will be soon forthcoming. Obama will now announce that he was wrong for opposing the war and that Hussein (the other one) was clearly retaining his ability to produce nuclear weapons.

From American Thinker

July 06, 2008
President Bush exonerated of ‘misleading statements’ leading to Iraq war
Vincent Gioia

Today we know that Iraq did possess 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment. The effort to topple Hussein and cause regime change was indeed necessary to prevent the development of nuclear weapons. We know this because it has been revealed, albeit without the fanfare of the earlier “scandal”, that this huge stockpile of concentrated uranium, a remnant of Hussein’ nuclear program, was removed from Iraq and shipped to a buyer in Canada. It should be a great relief to the world to know that Hussein was not given enough time to further develop his nuclear program because President Bush defied his critics and took action to abort this threat.

To those unfamiliar with “yellowcake”, it is a concentrated form of uranium resulting from early stages of uranium ore processing. Although yellowcake is not considered potent enough for a nuclear bomb or for a so-called “dirty bomb” – “a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material” – it is a very dangerous material in the wrong hands. Yellowcake can be enriched for use in nuclear reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons.

Of course, as was the case with Caesar, “The evil that men do (in the eyes of their critics) live after them but the good is (“oft”) interred with their souls”. Bush continues to be maligned by his liberal and appeasement minded critics and too many Americans as well, for taking preemptive action to cancel this threat. We can only wonder what critics and opponents would say if Saddam Hussein had been allowed to continue and developed a nuclear weapon of mass destruction and made it available to world terrorists; at least those of them who would still be alive following a nuclear terrorist attack in the United States?

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