Did you happen to see the news a week or so ago that the last of Saddam's 550 tons of yellowcake in Baghdad was carted off? Move along, nothing to see here.

But the real moral to the story is that the same people who claimed heinous manipulation into war are now using the same tactics. Tsk. -- shooter242

You mean yellowcake that was known about for years, and was from the first Gulf War and had no threat value in regards to a bomb; not even a "dirty bomb"?

"While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called "dirty bomb" — a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material — it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment." (ABC)

You mean yellowcake that was unused after Iraq stopped the drive to make a bomb, long, long ago? Even before murderers like yourself turned the American Killing Machine loose on innocent women and children? Hmmmm?

Soon you will pass from this plane of existence to your just reward; and may it be everything you deserve. You are a dissembling little piece of trash.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008
/Military_official_fired_for_refusing_to_0711.html

The Department of Defense has attempted for years to manipulate popular opinion towards the war in Iraq by limiting press coverage of military funerals.

When Gina Gray, a media specialist with a long history of working with the military, became public affairs director at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this year, she found that officials there had started hampering media coverage even in cases where the families gave permission. When she tried to uphold the existing regulations, she was harassed by her supervisor, demoted, and then fired.

Gray appeared on MSNBC's Verdict with David Shuster on Thursday for her first live interview, along with her attorney, Mark Zaid, who has a history of involvement in high-profile cases involving government secrecy.

"I had no idea I was going to be fired," Gray explained, "but I certainly ... butted heads. ... I wanted there to be clear rules ... and cemetery officials felt like they were the exception to the rule, that they didn't have to play by the same rules."

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Like others here, I just pounded shooter with the facts and moved on without much more thought.

Later I realised that he had done a favor for all of us. Yes, I know that shooter was fibbing and knew better --- but what about the "average voter" out there. How many read only the headline and figured, "dang, Saddam did get some yellow cake over in Africa just like the administration claimed."

I mean, after all, the American Press is on the side of the power structure, and the powerful want us to use our military in the middle east. I remember in the movie "Wag the Dog" when Connie told the CIA guys that the fake war was real --- it was on TV! And, your CIA satellites damn sure better show that or what good are they? If the public is going to pay for them, then they better show us something. It was one of the finest training films for Americans to understand their rulers ever produced.

With FOX news and all the other fake news outlets in this country, we can not depend on the "average guy" to really know what is going on. Just because I knew that the Iraq war was a hoax, that does not mean others were as informed.

Hell, how many remember that Russian satellite pictures obtained by an American paper showed that Bush I was lying about the Iraq threat to Saudi Arabia in the run up to the first war. Our satellite photos were said to have shown massive troop concentrations ready to invade Saudi. The Russian ones showed zip. Surprise!

How many remember that we may well have tricked Saddam into invading Kuwaiti in the first place? Saddam asked permission like a good like puppet; but we surprised him. Hehehe, are we not clever?