🚀 go-pugleaf

vonroach (hadrainc@earthlink.net) wrote:
: On Mon, 3 May 2004 04:47:36 +0000 (UTC), Merlin Dorfman
: <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:
: >
: >: : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2278019.stm
: >
: >:      Pre-Gulf-War-I (1986-88).  We knew Saddam was working on 
: >: atomic energy then.  (Remember the Israelis taking out the Osirak
: >: reactor?)  The question is about since then.
: >:      And I'm automatically suspicious of anthing that contains a
: >: howler like this: "However, the uranium produced in Africa is not
: >: of weapons grade and would need processing before it could be used
: >: in weapons."  Tell me, where can I dig weapons-grade urainium
: >: right out of the ground??

: Minerals vary in refinment needed for use. Where did the Israeli's get
: the material for their nuclear arsenal? Where did France, England,
: India, USSR, China, Pakistan,....? You buy from the mine or get it
: second-hand. 

     I repeat...where can I dig weapons-grade uranium right out
of the ground?  (Hint: can't be done.  "Weapons grade" = highly
enriched, probably >90% U-235.)  But why would I expect that you 
would either (1) know that or (2) recognize your lack of expertise 
in the area and keep quiet.

: >: : http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/12/sprj.irq.uk.uranium.straw/index.html
: >
: >:      Other procurement activities, but nothing related to yellow
: >: cake...and IIRC that was primarily the aluminum cylinders that
: >: turned out not to be for centrifuges.
: >
: Yes, we can trust Germany, France, UN and Blix when they tell us..
: chuckle.

     Chuckle, yourself.  They are the only ones who turned out
to be right.

: >: : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/14/wdoss114.xml
: >
: >:      A French source!  LOL!

:            Telegraph co. - a `french' source?

     Which proves you didn't read the article.

: >: : http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36632
: >
: >:      An unconfirmed report from December that some unstated
: >: amount of yellow cake was found...no info on source or age,
: >: could certainly have been left over from the 80s.
: >:      However, here are some reports of the White House's
: >: admission of error in making the charge:

: So you are out to use third world propaganda and try to exploit
: political advantage from their lies.  You are a truly pathetic case.

     I admit that White House press conferences and press 
secretaries have closely resembled Third World propaganda since
Bush took office, but I'm surprised that you recognize it.

: Keep furnishing out of work bureaucrats and packing commissions, it
: shows both how desperate you are as well as your antiAmerican bias.

     huh?
     I'm neither out of work nor a bureaucrat, nor have I ever
been on a commission.  And here's a revelation for you: 
opposing Bush's policies is not anti-American.