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To: gamesmistress who wrote (256976)	7/6/2008 11:57:26 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794032

Proof of WMDs material in Iraq... Cameco Corp. says uranium deal kept quiet by U.S. military The Canadian Press July 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM EDT MONTREAL — A Canadian company that has acquired a massive amount of concentrated natural uranium from Iraq says the U.S military was behind the secrecy surrounding the transaction. Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp. purchased the reported 550 tonnes of “yellowcake”, the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment, in a deal reported to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Cameco spokesman Lyle Krahn says the hush-hush nature of the transaction was at the request of the U.S. military, who supervised the transport of the raw material out of the volatile region. Mr. Krahn confirmed the yellowcake uranium arrived in Montreal on Saturday by ship and is scheduled to be transported by truck to the company's facilities in Ontario. The stockpile has been described as the last major remnant of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Yellowcake uranium poses no severe risk if stored and sealed properly. theglobeandmail.com

To: gamesmistress who wrote (256976)	7/7/2008 7:41:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794032

The reason for the reforms was the same reason New Zealand got stuck into reforms about the same time = desperate financial straits plus a change of guard with different philosophical and economic foundations: <Did the US do anything to hamper Gorbachev's reforms? Why do you suppose Gorbachev pursued glasnost and perestroika anyway, out of the goodness of his heart?> Maggie Thatcher had started reforms a few years earlier for similar reasons. But Argentina took the opportunity to invade the Falklands Islands. NATO did NOT spring into gear and the gentlemen of NATO left the lady to handle the situation herself. New Zealand had also been planning on invading and conquering the USA but the new government decided local reform was more useful and more likely to succeed. The USA didn't do a lot to hamper reforms in the USA but did what they could to hamper New Zealand which had adopted an anti-nuclear policy, such as backing the French terrorist attack against New Zealand. As I explained, Reagan was a bystander, busily doing Iran contra deals and playing shiny pebbles and stuff. en.wikipedia.org Mqurice