http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=295909
anyone think this crap might be used by terrorist groups for nuclear weapons (dirty or conventional)
Eeww. Not pretty. This owuld make me nervous.
Blarg…Just Another Thing To Add To Day To Day Worries…
Damn Newage Propoganda…
Although it wasn’t the inspectors/US mission, wouldn’t they have found this and tried to, I don’t know, get it the fuck out of there into a safe place?
I heard that one man actually died from radiation poisoning after he drank water out of a barrel that he looted from a radioactive site that was used at one point to hold waste. He thought that the barrel was perfectly fine after he washed it out with water.
So some of the looters are adminstering justice on themselves. Lets just hope this stuff doesn’t fall into the hands of anyone who knows how to use it.
Whoa, nasty. Just goes to show what a lack of education and anarchy will lead to.
Who in thier right mind would remove radioactive stuff and dump it on the ground to keep the barrel? The mind boggles at the state of humanity.
Dirty bombs are bad, but I doubt that the risk is any higher now than before.
Wasn’t it our responsibility to keep this sort of things from happening considering we kinda wiped out any form of law that was once existing in Iraq? I mean, you don’t just destroy the place and expect it to be rebuilt on its own. And out of all the things to put guards at, sites like this one would seem rather important…
Ka|gone! you’re forgetting Bush wants Iraq to pay for the reconstruction and stuff.
Speaking of the reconstruction of Iraq… http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2003/nf20030519_0471_db056.htm
It just goes to show us how careless we’ve become, and someday we’re going to regret it.
Something that despairs me is that I hear many ppl say that “we should nuke so-and-so off the face of the earth because of such-and-such”. A long time ago, we dropped two bombs on Japan…one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki.
If anyone who has seen the effects and after-effects of these weapons, they should most certainly think twice before saying stuff like that…not even our enemies are worthy of that.
I most certainly hope our leaders and future leaders keep such a calamity from happening again, although seriously I doubt it. History has showed us that people learn nothing from history.
Originally posted by Sinistral
Ka|gone! you’re forgetting Bush wants Iraq to pay for the reconstruction and stuff.
I have never been able to understand the “logic” of expecting the people with the least ammount of money to pay the biggest portion of bills. I mean, I know why/how it happens (those with the most money with which to pay taxes have also the most political clout to use to avoid paying said taxes) but I shake my head in frustration every time I think about it.
Tax Breaks for the rich and the megarich, so more money has to come from the poor people (who have next to none). A budgetary mistake right out of Monarchial France, where the nobles and the clergy refused to pay taxes and hence all the money had to come from the peasans, who eventually got really upset (surprise surprise!) and cut all the nobles’ heads off.
And so now the people of Iraq are supposed to foot the bill for reconstruction of their after 20+ years of being slaved, starved, and oppressed by Hussein, after 12 years of the sanctions, and a couple months of us bombing the shit out of them?
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Originally posted by Trillian
[b]It just goes to show us how careless we’ve become, and someday we’re going to regret it.Something that despairs me is that I hear many ppl say that “we should nuke so-and-so off the face of the earth because of such-and-such”. A long time ago, we dropped two bombs on Japan…one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki.
If anyone who has seen the effects and after-effects of these weapons, they should most certainly think twice before saying stuff like that…not even our enemies are worthy of that.I most certainly hope our leaders and future leaders keep such a calamity from happening again, although seriously I doubt it. History has showed us that people learn nothing from history. [/b]
America is just big headed, and superior to all other nations…(Yeah right…) Someday we may need those allies. Sometimes I wonder why Japan treats us as good as they do today after we killed many of there innocent people. Iraq on the other hand, we bombed the hell out of them, we won the ‘war’, and now we tell them “fuck off” Jesus christ, can’t America have the decensy to help out. Oh well, when president bush gets out of office and America gets a good president then maybe I’ll like this country a little more, as for me when I turn 18, I’m out.
>Sometimes I wonder why Japan treats us as good as they do today after we killed many of there innocent people.
Because we took the time to rebuild Japan and make it prosperous, something we seem unwilling to do in Iraq. Read that article I posted the link to: it explains the mistakes we’re making that’re letting Iraq go to pieces.
It’s not like they want us there right now in the first place. I was watching the news and they were having protests telling the americans to get out. It was a peaceful protest, but if they dont want our help, meh. I agree that the administration is doing a pretty lousy job of cleaning up though.
But if the Administration started doing a good job, even if in the beginning the Iraqi people saw it as being undemocratic, eventually the results would change their minds.
Oh, silly me Sin. Bush has great thinking there. Let’s waltz in, destroy their country, and have them rebuild it. It builds great democratic character!
Hoo boy, here we go with the threat level again…
“Sometimes I wonder why Japan treats us as good as they do today after we killed many of there innocent people.”
Curtis posted a good reason, but also, President Truman felt it was the only option. There were military dictators in Japan making the peoples’ lives miserable, an invasion would have cost millions of Allied lives, and the effects of the atomic bomb weren’t known at the time. After we realized we had destroyed two whole cities, we felt we were in their debt to rebuild.
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[li]Secure Oil Ministry.
[/li][li]Have a Break.
[/li][li]Watch hospitals, museums and sites with potentially lethal radioactive material be looted.
[/li][li]Say we didn’t have enough manpower.
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Check. They followed the list like they should have.
It’s quite obvious that someone has a horrible short time memory and has already forgotten Afghanistan, Balkan, and the other occupations that the USA has partisipated in.
Nulani, be realistic. You forgot the whole deal with the power going out.
Originally posted by The Wizardmaster
Nulani, be realistic. You forgot the whole deal with the power going out.
Oh yes. I forgot.
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[li]Infrastructure; what’s infrastructure? I don’t see any infrastructure.
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