Saddam's WMD Have Been Found

Maybe someone here believes it needs more salt?

well the entire conversation has certainly spiced up this thread.....

I think someone slipped some pot in the oregano jar.

(It's in the salad.)

Here's what the article said:



This is the link to the story.

I don't understand how a "high speed rail gun" could test nuclear weapons materials, unless you want to see how they go splat when you smash them into something at high speed.

Anyway, nothing was said about enrichment, it's just a stockpile of natural uranium. I don't know what kind of enrichment they use here at the power plant. I do know that Naval reactors are somewhere up in the 90% enrichment level. That's why they can make them small enough to carry on a ship or submarine. And BTW I was at INEL during the winter of 1972-1973. BRRRR!!! Came away from Idaho Falls with a wife, though.

thanks Tarantula. I have to still think that the title "Natural U" is misleading in thearticle..It gives no distinction between an ore and a purified or even enriched subatance. If you worked at INEL and Hanford, were you associated with the DOE?. I hated INEL , cold also Pantex , waay too hot. Sandia was my favorite in the high desert.

i also wonder what they would do with a rail gun ?


Kick, BP,---thanks for the help. im gonna have to do some serious "in your face father son discussion with jr" hes the one that brought it up . Im totally out of the pop culture loop. Actually I guess Im my own 'Pop' culture .
goddam, I was being tested for how far hhe can go before I understand.

blatham , "money shot" now that I remember. course , all the porn queens whose careers I followed , are probably dead from STDs

Glad I caught up on this thread....I would respond, but I'm laughing too hard.

No problem. Anytime you need to know something that involves sex, pornography, or filthy perversions of any kind, I'm here for ya.

Maybe it was uranium ore. Sometimes the people in the news media aren't exactly diligent about getting the terminology straight.

When I was at the INEL, it was called the National Reactor Testing Station. I was in the Navy and being trained on the S1W submarine prototype reactor. It was one of three prototypes at the site. Apparently they're all shut down now. It was way too cold in the winter, but the summers are great and the trout fishing is out of this world. I lived in Blackfoot for 6 months, and all I can remember of that is darkness and boredom.

Did Saddam have WMD's? I don't know. I do know that the present administration has bungled horribly. However, I am one of the few among my acquaintances who still believe that President Clinton was a great president--one of the best of the last century.

President Clinton believed that Saddam Hussein had, at one time, and might have regained WMD's.

In his speech to the American People on Dec. 16th 1998, President Clinton said:

"...If Saddam can cripple the weapons inspection system and get away with it, he would conclude that the international community--led by the United States--has simply lost its will. He will surmise that he has free rein to rebuild his arsenal of destruction, and someday--make no mistake about it--he will use it again as he has in the past."

In some circles, President Clinton is anathema. I believe that he was one of our best presidents and immensely well informed about foreign powers and relationships.

Here's an interesting story about an upcoming report. I don't understand the use of "anthrax" in one area. I suspect they meant "nerve gas."

Saddam did have WMD plans says inspector Link

If all of this evidence about WMD's is correct, why don't we see it in the media. I have read or seen nothing about it. Why not? Does the media think the reports are biased or unauthoritative?

mporter, Like everything else about this administration, they like to keep things a secret until somebody takes of photo of the real thing. However, in the mean time, you can look at this link for info on WMDs in Iraq.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0413-02.htm

Maybe once the report is officially released, the rest of the media will talk about it too.

Me too.

As far as I can see - admittedly, I have not read this thread thoroughly - there is nothing significant here that is new.

Hey, you guys missed my link; it's dated today! LOL

c. i.- I dont know if i can buy that article that were salting the WMD sites. Its gotten so cynical now that if the truth would present itself, I doubt if wed recognize it.


Back to the overriding and important questions, "getting ones sald tossed" , then, is what my generation would have referred to a a "rim job". I need to coordinate the data on these things and reach closure.

Blatham, Id like to see some Chinese restaurant aigns that have many layers of meaning. I once had someone send me a sign (it may have been fake0 it had FOK YU lAUNDRY.

farmerperson

I've seen, as probably you have, quite funny examples of mis-translation (sign outside laundry "Drop Your Pants Here"). Some are side-splitters.

Here in Vancouver, through serious levels of immigration from pacific rim countries, our population is now nearly 50% Asian. There's always turmoil when cultures intermingle like that, but it eventually works to enrich all, I think.

The folks who come from Hong Kong and certain parts of China have certain cultural notions which are reflected in their advertising, so the term 'lucky' is fairly common on signs or in brochures, etc. Certain numbers are lucky/unlucky, and this has a consequence for what price you can expect for your house, simply because of the address numbers on the door. At least one outlying community has revised the traditionally random numbering of new homes to account for this cultural preference. Money is rather a big thing too. You'll recall the formal turnover of Hong Kong from Britain to China about fifteen years ago. Big to-do...at least a week of solid celebrations and performances (a very weird mix of Hong Kong culture and commie aesthetics). One performance had a few dozen beautiful women in lovely cascading silks marching around under colored lights, each wearing a head-dress which was a three foot high dollar sign.

farmerman, I don't know how legit the link is, but that's all I could find froma web search on "Iraq WMDs." I'm waiting anxiously for the news to break on those WMDs.

Then explain why Hans Blix didn't have access to this leaked document, written by Charles Duelfer, the new director of the Iraq Survey group?

Very strange.

Equally strange, while the Scotsman is a perfectly good newspaper, why has this story not appeared in Reuters, the AP, Ananova, the NYT's, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or NBC?

Very, very strange.