Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Monday, July 07, 2008 10:13:47 PM
The U.S. military has finished delivering 550 tons of yellowcake uranium — left over from the late Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons-making era — from Iraq to a uranium trading company in Canada, Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News on Monday.
Cameco, which sells the natural uranium, also called "yellowcake," to electricity-producing utilities around the world, bought the uranium for an undisclosed price several weeks ago.
To assist in the sale, the U.S. military transported the uranium over the weekend to "ensure its safe transit," senior Pentagon officials said.
"The Department of Defense was responsible for the safe and secure transfer of materials from Iraq to the country of purchase," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. "The cargo was transported by convoy from Tuwaitha nuclear research facility in Baghdad to a secure location in the Green Zone" and then loaded onto a C-17 and flown to an intermediate location via 37 sorties, he said.
Once at that intermediate location, which Whitman declined to reveal, the cargo was shipped to a third country where it was loaded onto a U.S.-flagged cargo ship. It was transported from there to Canada.
Tuwaitha is the facility that was bombed by Israel in 1981 and again by the U.S. during the 1991 Gulf War. It was a centerpiece of Hussein's nuclear weapons effort, and was looted shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Saddam Hussein with yellowcake uranium? But how can this be? Surely people like Joe Wilson were not lying to us about the situation in Iraq prior to our invasion. Why would a flaming liberal fop want to mislead America about Saddam's possession of such material? Could it be possible that liberals would do anything to discredit George Bush, even to the extent of lying about Saddam's possession of nuclear weapons material to the American People?
The liberal media has yet to comment on when the massive public apology to the President will be scheduled. No firm plans have been decided as of this date.