Yellowcake: I Can't Believe They Haven't Told Us

[ThomWV]

That Sadam had already got it and as the invasion was going on cleverly hid it by dumping it out on the sand, where it blended in nicely.

[NMDemDist2]

1. that's a joke right?

I hope you're being sarcastic anyway

[AndyTiedye]

3. Read the whole thing as one sentence

With all the whoppers they've told us so far, I'm a bit surprised
they haven't tried that one too.

With all the depleted uranium our forces have dumped over there,
they wouldn't need yellowcake anymore, they could just gather up
all the spent munitions. That may well be hotter than yellowcake
anyway.

[fob]

2. If they were smart instead of clever they would have rushed to

guard the existing yellowcake stockpiles and at the appropriate time done an accounting of the UN sealed stuff and found, VOILA! some extra stuff from Niger, thereby confirming their planted Niger memo AND (perhaps more significantly) throwing Blix's crews inspections in doubt.

The problem with them is they're evil AND stupid.

[kevsand]

5. I still can't believe they didn't "find" any WMD in Iraq.

nudge, nudge, wink, wink. We thought for sure they'd be smart enough to plant some.

[fob]

9. You too huh?

Why do you think they didn't plant anything? With all the shit they DID do, you'd think that'd be no big deal to them. Did they NEED to keep everyone guessing? Was there plan to use these nonexistent wmd's for each war they started?

:shrug:

[kevsand]

10. Maybe they wanted to milk the story

about the WMDs being schlepped into Syria. Gives us another excuse to invade there. Or maybe they just assumed that the public wouldn't care one way or the other. Maybe, just maybe, they talked themselves into believing there really was something there; at least enough of something that they could point to it.

[Baconfoot]

11. It's because their thinking is too compartmentalized...

perhaps due to too many dopey management seminars.
(the following is just a daydream)

I feel like they had some to-do list like:
1)Continue to pretend to be responding to 911 in Afghanistan.
2)Prepare "justification" for war with Iraq. (delegate to the people who know how to manufacture evidence and invent lies about groups of people and existing world leaders etc.)
3)Plan reelection strategy (delegate to the people who know how to talk and invent lies about individual people)
4)Plan actual war with Iraq (delegate to the people who know how to put things on fire)
and so on...

but there is not enough thought put into integrating the tasks. The planning of the Iraq war should have involved planning the planting of WMDs in keeping with the justification. There was, however, a lack of communication.

So I think they have a weakness after all!

Actually they should probably have figured that out first unless they honestly didn't care about getting caught. A distinct possibility. That would make the weakness involved mere evil.
I would prefer to think they have weaknesses more easily exploitable than mere evil.

[fob]

12. Their thinking is "mentalized" alright!

[Canuckistanian]

4. It looks a lot like Cumin, the spice.

Maybe it's hidden in small jars in housewive's kitchens all across Iraq.
Clever, these terrorists.

[kevsand]

6. But will it turn the whites of your eyes blue?

And if you drink it, will you see the future?

[Canuckistanian]

8. And they can use it to fold space so they can sneak up on us.

Brilliant!

[emulatorloo]

7. Don't give them any ideas -- I can hear Brit Hume's voice now

talking about this 'highly credible explanation."