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LUVMBDiesels · #5 11-03-2008, 04:22 PM

This sounds about right to me... We have seen the surge working ( well most of us have anyway) and the stories of AQiI being rolled up have been coming out of Iraq over the past year. Of course those stories are not headline news while a homcide bomber is. The story about the yellowcake is new to me -- I must check it out. This would not be the first time an administration has had to sit on information that would vindicate it's actions due to national security concerns. Iraq IS getting better and is well on it's way to achieving stability.

As for our troops still being there and the $$ being spent - I believe that most of that money is now being spent on training Iraqi troops and integrating them into our style of cammand and control. Condi went over there about a month ago to start the negotiations to bring some of the troops home. The real danger is that if we pull out before Iraq can handle its own security all the sacrifices of the brave troops and the Iraqi people will come to naught as the nation collapses under pressure from Iran and Syria.

UPDATE:

The yellocake story is true. I have seen articles from sources such as MSNBC and CBS (both very conservative sources) that reported it. It just never made headlines. This yellowcake had been in Iraq since 1991 and was sitting because we had denied Saddam the purchase of the centrifuges he needed to separate the U238 from the U235. It could have still been made in to 'dirty bombs' and used by terrorists to contaminate a city or two. This was some of the stuff the UN inspectors were trying to inspect while being led around by their noses by Saddam. hmmm WMDs? Not really, but close to it.

BTW: the deal was made between the Iraqui Government and Canada and netted the Iraqis "tens of millions of dollars" I bet that they ARE happy they got rid of it -- and Saddam