So, Let's Put A Stake In The Heart Of 'Bush Lied, People Died.' Now Updated To Include More Fearmongering Extremism!

For those of you who have complained in the past that the huge amount of evidence FOR Saddam Hussein's WMD program that I've pointed out in my past blogs are nothing but "blog postings," here's some news for you.

The final stocks of Saddam's refinable URANIUM have been shipped to Canada.  [*NOTE FOR THE STUPID: IT WAS MOVED THERE FOR SAFEKEEPING, BECAUSE CANADA'S ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS. See comments below.]

The material was so-called "Yellowcake," which is refinable to produce weapons-grade uranium. FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY METRIC TONS OF IT.

Let's talk about "yellowcake," to make sure we're all on the same page. "Yellowcake" - so-called because it comes in cakes, and is yellow - is what's called "low-enrichment" uranium. 

In nature, Uranium exists in two versions - the basically inert U-238 isotope, which is useless for fission weapons - it can be used in fusion warheads - and the much more unstable U-235 isotope, which is what is needed for weapons. The percentage of U-238 is much higher.

Yellowcake is uranium which has been - basically - cooked, so as to remove the majority of the NON-uranium impurities. From there, there are several methods used to remove the U-238 and leave the pure, or nearly so, U-235.

Now, U-235 can be used directly to build bombs in the style and power range of the Hiroshima bomb, or it can be "bred" in a breeder reactor to make plutonium, which is used to make the really godawful huge multimegaton nukes.

YEAH, IT'S THE STUFF THEY USE TO BUILD NUKES.

BUT HE HAD NO WMD PROGRAM.

Here's a clue, folks; Iraq has only EVER had ONE nuclear reactor for power;the Osiraq reactor, which was crippled by the Israelis in 1981, and utterly destroyed by the U.S. in 1991.

There was no reactor to use that nuclear fuel IN. There was no program to build one, either. So it wasn't meant for reactor fuel.

However, depleted uranium - produced as a byproduct of the process of refining uranium into weapons-grade material - WAS found at the al-Tuwaitha nuclear site; something the media's ALSO been claiming Hussein didn't have. So, at least at one time, Iraq CLEARLY had a weapons program and was attempting to build a bomb.

They had enough uranium to make 142 Hiroshima bombs.

I want you to think about that, really closely. That's enough to nuke the 47 biggest cities in the U.S. THREE TIMES APIECE and still have one left to threaten other countries with.

Alternately, you can think of it as enough to nuke every state in the U.S. twice and still have enough left to triple up on Russia, Germany, Italy, England, France, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Czech Republic, and Macedonia.

Now, that's all well and good; but he's totally on the other side of the world and can't send missiles that far, so no threat to the U.S., blah, blah.

Let me change your mind. According to the folks doing all that detaining and stuffing of insurgents into Gitmo, many of then already have arrest records in the U.S. - meaning they've been here before, and WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

Modern technology realistically allows a nuclear device with the power of the Hiroshima bomb to be carried in a steamer trunk.

Do you honestly believe they COULDN'T smuggle a steamer trunk into the United States if they wanted, considering the Chinese have been smuggling in whole boxcar shipping containers full of people for years?

I hope it's clear to you all that there was a threat.

Are we done now?