Axis of Evil

The Yellowcake Chronicles

July 2008

By Andrew Peterson
For CoverUps.com

Writing in an Associated Press article Joseph Murphy informs us that 550 tons – tons – of yellowcake uranium were recently shipped to Montreal, where it will be processed into electricity-producing nuclear fuel.

With this article, a prominent member of the mainstream media has single-handedly demolished one of liberals' most cherished accusations against President Bush: that he lied the country into war in Iraq. So are we getting a public apology from the media to the President then? Or a renewed appreciation of the fact that Bush has kept this country from harm?

We're not holding our breath, dear reader. Neither should you.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention to the long list of evidence that backed up the Bush Administration's case for war that the mainstream media just couldn't bear to look at:

... the satellite photos of truck convoys and Russian agents assisting in the removal and transportation of chemical weapons from Saddam’s weapons depots to Syria during the run-up to the war.

... the testimony of Gen. Georges Sada, one of Saddam’s top generals, who described how chemical weapons were loaded aboard planes at the Baghdad airport and flown to Syria disguised as relief supplies for Syrian flood victims.

... the saran filled artillery shell, made into an IED, that exploded next to a U.S. troop convoy, but failed to mix the chemicals properly because it hadn't spun as it would when fired from a cannon. And just forget about those 500 chemical warfare artillery shells found in an ammo dump and destroyed by U.S. troops.

.... the underground bunker found by our troops, filled with barrels of pesticide, the precursor for saran. And should I mention the nuclear components and bomb plans found buried in the back yard of Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi?

... the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq who were slaughtered by Saddam’s chemical weapons after the Gulf War, and the thousands of Iranians who were smothered by Saddam’s toxic chemical attacks during the Iran-Iraq war.

... less than a week before the November, 2004 election, the media was all over the story that hundreds of tons of HMX and RDX explosives were stolen from the Iraqi weapons depot at al Qaqaa. HMX and RDX are explosives used to make missile warheads and to detonate nuclear weapons. The U.S. Army was blamed for not protecting the installation from looters. The story appeared on John Kerry’s campaign website.

Our Take

The truth matters, and it should be no small source of vindication to conservatives that the huge anti-Bush protests we suffered through before the Iraq war have been shown to be epic exercises in foolishness. We've always known this. And now we have proof – from mainstream media no less.

Which brings us to a troublesome realization about a terrible failing of the Bush Presidency's conduct of the war. Not on the Iraq or Afghanistan front, but on the PR front.

It's an ongoing mystery – and a source of great frustration – that President Bush refuses to put up more of a fight with his opponents in Congress and the media who don't have the facts on their side and who haven't been fighting fairly or with honor.

The President has been a great advocate of a more muscular foreign policy role for the U.S. If only he took the same approach at home, in defense of himself and his administration.

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