saddam hussein

George W. Bush is the worst President in American history.  In less lucid moments (mostly when hopped-up on allergy medicine) I would write that Barack Obama has been far far worse.  But there would have not been Barack Obama in the White House had Bush the Lesser been a competent leader.

I spent more time than I cared to during the Bush years chronicling and commenting upon that maladministration’s screw-ups, and I sure don’t want to spend any more time on it than I absolutely must (some readers of this blog have commented that I’m too hard on Obama, even “hateful”.  Where were they during this site’s first several years?!).  All I will say for now is this: in regards to the Department of Homeland Security: I told y’all so.  Way back in 2001 even, I wrote in a few places that Bush was giving us something in Homeland Security ...

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Three times today I’ve been sent or otherwise directed to the following from Investor’s Business Daily…

“Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn’t fit the media’s neat story line that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. It’s a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad. In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel — thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region. This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP

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