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Jerusalem News-812
23 Tishrei 5768, 22th October 2008
Contents:
1. Sarah
Palin
Now Said NOT to have Jewish Ancestry?
2. Media silent about USA winning the War in Iraq
3. President Bush finally vindicated:
Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium From
Iraq
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1. Sarah
Palin
Now Said NOT to have Jewish Ancestry?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_sarah_palin's_maternal
_great_grandfather_jewish
2. Media silent about USA winning the
War in Iraq
Forwarded by:
eidelberg@foundation1.org
Winning Isn't News
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the
American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the
news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq .
London's Sunday Times called it "the culmination of one of the most
spectacular victories of the war on terror." A terrorist force that once
numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions
of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed
against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.
The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and
unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare. We can thank
President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and
Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of
surrendering.
We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge
there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on
counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military
in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America
was their friend and AQI their enemy.
Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar
Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from
there.
Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored
Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left.
More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.
Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul,
found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were
once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost
control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization
having fled south into the countryside.
Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki's government has achieved "satisfactory" progress on 15 of the 18
political benchmarks "a big change for the better from a year ago."
Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated
the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while
visiting the United Arab Emirates , which over the weekend announced that
it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad, an impressive
vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.
But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good
news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, "the CBS Evening
News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday
night about the benchmarks "that signaled political progress."
The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and
politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox
News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to
consider this historic event a big story.
3. President Bush finally vindicated:
Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium From Iraq
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334
Forwarded by
Joan Griffith
Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium From
Iraq
On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S.
mission hauls uranium from Iraq . The opening paragraph is as follows:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of
concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a
secret U.S. operation that included a two week airlift from Baghdad and a ship
voyage crossing two oceans.
See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the far-left for
more than five years how, "Bush lied." Somehow, that slogan loses its
credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam's yellowcake, used for nuclear
weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as
nuclear energy.
It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003
after invading Iraq . They had to sit on this information and the uranium
itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept
safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the
site.
This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked
mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere.
Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam's nuclear
ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would report the story? Once the
AP released the story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and
broadcast it worldwide.
This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the
mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush's war motives
all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, "The removal of 550
metric tons of 'yellowcake'" - the seed material for higher-grade nuclear
enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear
legacy."
Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy? Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy
after all? I thought Bush lied? As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe
Wilson and his wife.
Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send
her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine if
Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger. The CIA and British
intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose but needed proof.
During his trip to Niger, Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister
of Niger , Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an
Iraqi delegation expressed interest in "expanding commercial relations" for the
purposes of purchasing yellowcake.
Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that there was
no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger.
However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush
used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 2003.
Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-ed in
the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush.
Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the
yellowcake from Niger. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disagreed
with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who was
opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime
minister's statements.
It was a simple tactic really. If the far-left and their friends in the media
could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger,
it would undermine President Bush's credibility and give them more cause for
asking what other "lies" he may have told.
Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the
prime minister's statements and concluded all by himself that the claim of
Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was "unequivocally wrong." Curiously,
the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided
with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public in a bipartisan Senate
Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.
Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that
the Bush administration "ousted" her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it w as
Richard Armitage -- no friend of the Bush administration -- who leaked Plame's
identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA
agent in some six years.
The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the
mainstream media and their left-wing friends on the blogosphere engaged in a
propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam's
uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you
think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit they were wrong?
Don't count on it. The rest of the American people should hear the truth about
Saddam's uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get.
As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that, "Bush
lied," we should tell them to, "Have the yellowcake and eat it too."
This story was verified, if you want to check it for yourself, click on the link
below.
Version #2:
A national defense analyst says President Bush should be commended for keeping
quiet about a discovery that could have blown his critics out of the water.
Retired Major General Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran who served as an
Army aviator, paratrooper, and Ranger during a military career that began during
the Korean conflict. He recently wrote on his blog about a very under reported
story by the Associated Press.
According to the report, a large stockpile of concentrated natural Uranium,
known as "yellowcake," reached a Canadian port to complete a top secret U.S.
Operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad, and a ship voyage
crossing two oceans. The Uranium material had been housed at a former Iraqi
nuclear complex 12 miles from Baghdad.
Curry says the president kept mum about the discovery in order to keep
terrorists in the dark. "He made a very brave stand, a resolute stand.., in
which he decided that he wasn't going to blab everything to the press," Curry
commends. "...And in the meantime while he kept it quiet, he was buying time
from the terrorists to get all that stuff out of the country. So that's what was
done -- he just very quietly kept his mouth shut."
"The press beat him to death for the last several years," he continues, "and now
it turns out that, yes, there were weapons of mass destruction...." Curry also
maintains that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear program and the material
could have been made into a nuclear weapon.
President Bush's actions took courage, he notes, and all Americans should be
thankful to have such a brave president who puts the welfare of the American
people above personal considerations.
--
Joan
Freedom means the opportunity to be what
we never thought we would
be.~Daniel
Boorstin
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