December seems absent. Therefore,
- Why do you support communism?
- Some people have it right.
- Cite me, bite me
- The UN is doing nothing about the Congo
- Should we invade Belgium?
This whole incident doesn’t speak very highly for the education level of those around Tuwaitha. I am reasonably close to Fermi II; I will not be making control-rod macrame any time soon.
December, defeating Saddam did not require leaving radioactive waste unsecured, and children consuming the radioactive waste did nothing to aid in the war effort.
Brutus said
Does it speak any more highly of the education level of the people in the US who are responsible for this?
On the other hand, you’re right. And after those kids eat enough contaminated foodstuffs or drink enough contaminated water, then they’ll be right down there at the bottom of the educational ladder. Where they belong. Stupid ragheads.
Fuckwit!:rolleyes:
Two observations:
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Why do liberals feel the need to use so many racial perjoratives? Do you think you are being clever?
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They certainly weren’t smart ragheads!
Brutus.
“Fuckwit” in no way was meant as a “racial” perjorative. I have no idea of your dna.
No? I’d be willing to hazard a guess.
I particularly love the asanine opinion pieces he uses as cites. I find them absolutely hilarious. God forbid he use something even remotely reliable as a source. I usually read December’s posts when I need a good laugh.
The UN has had peacekeeping troops in the Congo since 2000, you just probably haven’t heard about it because none of them are American.
Reasoned opinion! Facts! Ugh… makes… december-brain… confused {{smoke}}
And what a great job they are doing!
You know, December… perhaps you should post more often.
Hey now, this doesn’t need to be a pile-on december thread. I understand how folks feel about his opinions and his speaking, but it’s not exactly the OP, now is it?
Something’s missing here…
How about the morons who stole barrels FROM A NUCLEAR FACILITY AND PUT FOOD AND WATER IN THEM?!
I mean, I guess the site had been neglected for four years, but
a) Were there no signs left saying what was stored in there? No ‘Keep Out’, Radiation’ signs?
b) The barrels were completely unlabeled in any way? The Iraqis aren’t that illiterate.
c) Anybody who lived around there who remembered that they were living next to FUCKIN’ TUWAITHA! I mean, I know the regime was secretive but it wasn’t like people couldn’t notice that the place was ringed with guards and barbed wire and stuff and signs saying DANGER? Did people really not know that it was a nuke facility? How could you walk in, empty out the “brown mud” that was in the barrels, and put water for your kids in them?
Look, it does look like this was a fuckup, but what did the site look like? Even though it wasn’t weapons-related, was there any sign the stuff in the barrels wasn’t deadly? How much can the Army protect people from doing something so suicidal??
I’m angry for the children, but I’m missing too much basic info here to form a judgement about what America did or didn’t do. Iraq isn’t Afghanistan and these people weren’t stupid illiterate peasants–why did they do what they did?
Yes, you are missing too much basic info. One day it was guarded, the next day it wasn’t. Couple of weeks later it was guarded again.
It would not be acceptable in the U.S. to put radioactive waste in an unguarded building with a sign on the front saying “Danger: Radioactive Waste”. If people died because of consuming said waste, the DoD could not say “hey, we put a sign out front, not our fault if dumb-ass xxxxxz stole the shit”.
A few interesting facts that were not included in the OP’s article (emphasis mine):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72617,00.html
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/al/Qiraq-war-chrono.RqdJ_DA3.html
It seems April 3 was the earliest that the troops could have reached the facility - even with the “Go! Go! Go! Go!” war strategy being used. It’s funny how the article doesn’t mention it took 2 weeks to just get forces in the area.
So, if you want to argue about the ineptitude of the armed forces, then complain about how it took them 4 days (from April 3 to April 7) to secure that area. Because, hey, it’s not like they had anything more important to do, right?
Desperation. When a country is disrupted by a war food, water, electricity, and all those necessities for living become unstable. Turn on the tap and nothing comes out because a bomb hit something and as “collateral damage” ended up taking out a main line. Damn, now I need a bucket to gather water in from any of my neighbors who may still have working water. I can take it home and use it to operate my toilet manually. Or to drink, or to bathe in, all those useful things that water is for.
I looked at my water bill this month and my family used six thousand gallons in a month. I’ll admit that we did some lawn watering and a family of six will use a fair bit of water in the Texas summer, but if the faucets stopped working you can bet your sweet bippy I’d be out scrounging barrels anywhere I thought I could. If I washed out all the yellowcake, how in hell would I know it still wasn’t clean? Do YOU know what it takes to adequately clean a barrel which contained yellowcake? Why do you expect them to? I sure as hell don’t, but I can understand that desperate times bring desperate measures.
Enjoy,
Steven
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Mmmmm… yellowcake.
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Some in this thread have suggested that the US has done a better job protecting Iraq’s oil industry, than its nuclear facilities. That does not appear to be the case.
Looks like Halliburton will have a little more unexpected work to do :dubious:
What were the Chinese doing in Iraq?