Re: the planned invasion of Iraq will go ahead even if no weapons of mass destruction are found

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From: Nemesis
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:47

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"Lady Liberty" <LadyLiberty@UPAlliance.orgXYY> wrote in message
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> Tiny Human Ferret <ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net>  said, and I quote:
>
> > Lady Liberty wrote:
> >> russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)  said, and I quote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In article <avh8qs$2psm$1@news1.ij.net>,
> >>>die gedanken sind frei <judgedredd@ij.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>And I shall learn what from that tedious testimony? That "depleted
> >>>>uranium" is radioactive? Clinton, tell me, does the word "Depleted"
> >>>>get anything into your mental processor? Can you go to the dictionary
> >>>>and look it up? I won't even begin to suggest you look at a chemistry
> >>>>text or physics textbook. Just look up the meaning of the word
> >>>>"Depleted" and see if it gives you a clue anywhere.
> >>>
> >>>Depleted uranium is radioactive; it is an alpha emitter.
> >>
> >>
> >> Now you're getting somewhere, and what does alpha do?
> >
> > Alpha particles are basically fast moving helium nuclei, generally a
> > byproduct of the decay of nuclei of heavy isotopes such as uranium or
> > plutonium. They don't move very fast for very long, the first thing that
> > they hit, they will pick up two electrons from, and become a normal
> > helium atom and drift away in the wind.
> [interesting dissertation snipped] :)
>
> I was being facetious with that comment. They can't hurt people much
> without being ingested.


We seem to have a couple hysterics that don't quite get that. Which is why I
posted the longish research abstract Q and A for the idiots to read.
Obviously it was not written on a low enough grade level.

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From: "Nemesis" <judgedredd@ij.net>
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Subject: Re: the planned invasion of Iraq will go ahead even if no weapons of mass destruction are found
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