On December 14 2010 09:29 Redmark wrote:
I'm not informed on the situation, but if there's anything I've learned I'm taking anyone who says 'mainstream media' with a grain of salt. Maybe I'm one part of the hivemind, but I'd rather see a 'mainstream media' report on this.

time to break apart from the hive mind my friend, the mainstream media doesn't usually get to these kinds of truths

Wr3k

Canada2533 Posts

December 14 2010 00:32 GMT

#24

On December 14 2010 09:30 NoobieOne wrote:
now my question is why would they cover this up.

I want to call fake but have no evidence that it is so I'll just blame it on Bush's horrible PR not to show evidence.

Well technically having yellowcake uranium doesn't qualify as a WMD. Without an enrichment program it can't be used to make weapons very easily. So when Saddam told UN inspectors to fuck off and they saw he was seeking uranium voila, justification for a war. Perhaps they thought it would make their war effort appear a bit pre-mature by releasing this, after all, some raw uranium is hardly a WMD. I supported it all the way anyways since Saddam was a crazy fucker with chem/bio weapons and a history of mass murder.

Also... This was old news in 2008.

sely

United States30 Posts

December 14 2010 00:32 GMT

#25

This is from a far-right web site with a clear agenda. In 2008, when this yellowcake was supposedly removed from Iraq, George W. Bush was still president. Obama was not inaugurated until Jan 2009. Don't you think 550 metric tons of yellowcake found in Iraq would have been reported in the "mainscream" media during the Bush administration to help justify his war? The use of that pathetic phrase alone discredits this pathetic article.

In reality, Dick Cheney outed the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative because her husband, Joe Wilson, did not return Cheney the evidence he wanted. Consequently, over 70 US informants were assassinated.

ViruzZ

Sweden19 Posts

December 14 2010 00:32 GMT

#26

I tried to find source to thoose wiki documents, but couldn't find any in his article. Can anyone help me find it?

NuKedUFirst

Canada3139 Posts

December 14 2010 00:33 GMT

#27

Why the hell...
This makes the movie Greenzone a lie.. :<

koreasilver

9109 Posts

December 14 2010 00:33 GMT

#28

Wow... I don't know what to say.

edit: I kinda want the direct source for this. This is something I really want to read if it really is true.

Kazzabiss

1006 Posts

December 14 2010 00:34 GMT

#29

So uh, WikiLeaks actually helped the US on this one giving them justification/credit for the war.

Node

United States2159 Posts

December 14 2010 00:34 GMT

#30

Well, then. That's something else.

Kudos to Wikileaks for not specifically playing to one side of the spectrum with their releases, though.

Grumbels

Netherlands7032 Posts

December 14 2010 00:34 GMT

#31

Weapons of mass destruction is just a propaganda phrase. You can deal damage with anything if you're resourceful enough, Iraq was always a threat in that regard. Just because they're a threat, it doesn't mean the invasion was justified. One of the awful things about the WMD debate was that it should have been irrelevant. It was just one more argument the Bush administration used - who knows what the actual reasons were - , so discrediting it shouldn't have meant you won the debate. Detractors of his policy always left themselves up for a fall if some chemical weapons or whatever were found. The same thing now happens with Iran, if you accept the premise that WMD -> invasion necessary, then if Iran ever is close to aquiring nuclear weapons, we should attack them. I find that ludicrous however, just to compare, the United States has enough weaponry to destroy the world 7 times over, yet it finds the time to lecture other nations about such things?

Deleted User 37864

780 Posts

December 14 2010 00:35 GMT

#32

wasn't the founder of wikileaks just arrested?

Narwhal

United Kingdom314 Posts

December 14 2010 00:36 GMT

#33

I do, bullshit.

If they had the information they would jump at the chance to prove the war was justified. Not have it "leaked" by a website which at this moment is undergoing huge pressure from the elite.

It's just logic not to buy into it.