White House Lied About Iraqi Yellowcake Buy, But That’s Not the Biggest Scandal (Dave Lindorff)

Dave Lindorff: White House Lied About Iraqi Yellowcake Buy, But That’s Not the Biggest Scandal
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 11:07am. Dave Lindorff

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If Bush and Cheney had not been lying through their teeth, and Saddam had actually been buying yellowcake for the purpose of making a nuke weapon, he would still have had to obtain large numbers of centrifuges, would have had to power them up and run them for years, and would have then had to obtain the technology to build and test a bomb, none of which steps he was even alleged to have taken.

Yet Bush was claiming that there was an imminent threat to America posed by Saddam Hussein's yellowcake purchase effort, and that an invasion had to be launched almost immediately. He used the term imminent because that is the legal requirement in the UN Charter, to which the U.S. is a signatory and which is based upon the Nuremberg Charter established at the end of the Second World War. It states that no nation may invade another nation unless that nation poses an imminent threat to the would-be invader.

The yellowcake story, now definitively shown to have been a deliberate lie, even if true, could not have constituted such an imminent threat.

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Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzalez, Rumsfeld, and others in the outgoing administration should all be impeached, tried, and jailed for their lying and treason in embroiling the U.S. in the pointless and criminal Iraq War, with the yellowcake story a key element in any indictments. But there needs to be some kind of reckoning too, for the willful ignorance and deceit on the part of the majority of Congress and of the press in pretending that an alleged scheme to buy uranium ore was a justification for launching a war of aggression, which five years on, is still continuing.

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