500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon Says

500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon Says

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The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.

The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.

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Interesting. Perhaps there was indeed the potential for WMD's. But if this is the case, why hasn't the white house made a bigger deal out of this? Something seems to be missing from this puzzle...

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Probably not far off from the amount of depleted uranium we have 'delivered' to Iraq.

Sounds like a wash to me....

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