# It's Official! Half of us are idiots! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 25, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014 "2006-07-25T22:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/61 "2006-07-28T00:17:08Z")
Apply Directly To The Eyebone! Apply Directly To The Eyebone! Apply Directly To The Eyebone!.. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/62 "2006-07-28T00:34:02Z")
Freeper alert! [U.S. Removed Radioactive Materials From Iraq Facility](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32195-2004Jul6.html) > [@](#): > > Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham announced yesterday that almost two tons of low-enriched uranium and about 1,000 radioactive samples used for research had been removed from Iraq’s Tuwaitha Nuclear Center and brought to the United States for security reasons. > > The airlift of the radioactive materials was completed June 23, Abraham said in a statement, “to keep potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists.” Less sensitive radiological materials – used for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes – were left in Iraq, according to a Department of Energy statement. > > **The International Atomic Energy Agency, which in the prewar period had kept the Tuwaitha uranium under seal** , was told in advance of the U.S. removal, as were Iraqi officials. > > **Tuwaitha was once the center of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons effort, but its equipment was dismantled at the direction of U.N. inspectors in the early 1990s as part of the agreement following Iraq’s surrender in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The U.N. inspectors removed highly enriched uranium that could be used for weapons and shipped it for storage in Russia. The low-enriched uranium was placed under seal in storage at Tuwaitha but under the control of the IAEA** ::::_Points at Freeper imbecil, spits_::::: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/63 "2006-07-28T00:37:26Z")
Better apply The Test. **Cherry** , do you like soccer? ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/64 "2006-07-28T00:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Better apply The Test. **Cherry** , do you like soccer? [/QUOTE] ::::slaaaap!!!::::: And dammit, he better NOT. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/65 "2006-07-28T01:23:32Z")
People believe what they need to. The bigger fuckin’ mess Iraq turns out to be, the more it is necessary for those who supported the invasion at the time (ie most Americans) to believe there was a good reason for it. The worse Iraq gets, the more the figures given in the OP are going to go up. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/66 "2006-07-28T02:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=Cherry Flavored Hatred] Retards are funny. [/QUOTE] Actually, no. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/67 "2006-07-28T02:16:15Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] But your pal **Shodan** wasn’t. [/QUOTE] I’m sick of you morons denigrating these WMDs and saying they’re not dangerous. Do you have any idea how much it would hurt if you dropped one of those shells on your foot? “degraded” my ass. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/68 "2006-07-28T02:20:41Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Do you have any idea how much it would hurt if you dropped one of those shells on your foot? [/QUOTE] Well, that’s Weapons of Ankle Destruction (or WAKD. WAD’s already taken by another body part). Totally different matter. Considering the state of Iraq at the moment, there’s any number of WAKD’s just lying around. You could have a nasty trip on some of that rubble. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/69 "2006-07-28T15:41:31Z")
And if you’re not careful you might blow your WAD. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014/70 "2006-07-28T18:56:15Z")
All I know is, no one ever polls me about anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-half-of-us-are-idiots/366014.md?page=3)