Uranium wasn't Uranium.

[Thrawn]

"Tuesday October 1, 2002 1:50 AM


ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Atomic energy officials said Monday that a substance seized by police near the Syrian border was not weapons-grade uranium as Turkish officials first reported, according to the Anatolia news agency.

Atomic Energy Institute chief Guler Koksal said the material was harmless, containing zinc, iron, zirconium and manganese. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2055139,00.html

[midnight Target]

Yea but Saddam WISHES it was Uranium, so we should bomb him into next week!

[Staga]

Hehe I bet those guys sold their mothers so they could buy that "uranium"

[Dowding]

Hmmm... fishy. Very fishy.

[Innominate]

It was being sold to al qaeda, who have been repeatedly ripped off in that manner.

[midnight Target]

"No really dude. This is the best Wyoming watermelon you can buy! Its Casper Red! Dude! I swear on my mother's grave its real dude!"

[Kanth]

That'd be kewl if it turned out to be a little bottle of one-a-day vitamins.

Originally posted by Thrawn
"Tuesday October 1, 2002 1:50 AM
Atomic Energy Institute chief Guler Koksal said the material was harmless, containing zinc, iron, zirconium and manganese. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2055139,00.html

[Elfenwolf]

I hope the International Court has the balls to prosecute any and all nations, groups or individuals who were involved in this fraudulent transaction to sell bogus weapons grade uranium to Iraq (probably our very own CIA, given thier history) and I demand a full congressional hearing on this matter.

I don't care what side of the issue you're on, you have to agree from a moral standpoint that if Sadaam Hussein is paying for weapons grade uranium then he deserves to get weapons grade uranium. Fraud is fraud people, and we in America stand on principles above practicalities.

[miko2d]

That revilation was too hasty. They should have waited with it for a couple of weeks - after we invaded Iraq and killed it's leader under the false pretext.

 Remember how US population was swayed to support liberation of that tiny medieval princedom Kuwait in 1991 when it heard about poor pre-term babies cruelly ripped out of their incubators by ruthless Iraqi agressors - which proved to be a hoax?

 miko

[fd ski]

Miko, are you meaning to suggest that there wasn't 100, 000 executed albanians either ?

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by miko2d
That revilation was too hasty. They should have waited with it for a couple of weeks - after we invaded Iraq and killed it's leader under the false pretext.

 Remember how US population was swayed to support liberation of that tiny medieval princedom Kuwait in 1991 when it heard about poor pre-term babies cruelly ripped out of their incubators by ruthless Iraqi agressors - which proved to be a hoax?

 miko

It's true. In fact the Iraqi soldiers were reading the babies bedtime stories and preparing warm milk for them when US warplanes bombed the maternity ward and massacred the babies.

Emotional appeals go both ways.

-Sikboy

[Monk]

Originally posted by miko2d

 Remember how US population was swayed to support liberation of that tiny medieval princedom Kuwait in 1991 when it heard about poor pre-term babies cruelly ripped out of their incubators by ruthless Iraqi agressors - which proved to be a hoax?

 miko

Looking out my window and thinking........ maan that was a blast in 90-91.  Almost got a tear in my eye, boy those were the days.

[miko2d]

fd ski: Miko, are you meaning to suggest that there wasn't 100, 000 executed albanians either?

 It might have been simple misunderstanding - a 100 albanians each shot 1000 times.

 A simple accounting error could have occured when a 1000 dutch UN "peacekeepers" supervised orderly execution of each of a 100 of albanians they were entrusted to protect and each filed a report and they could have got added instead of collated...

-Sikboy: Emotional appeals go both ways.
 Too true - because ithey are effective. If anyone appealed to reason, people could have asked "Why the heck would those iraqi waste time clearing the incubators?"

 I wonder if those Iraqi peasants to whom we promised "liberation" are wondering why the heck did we kill about 100,000 of them in 1991 when Iraqi army was running away without any resistance? Why not just let them go instead of using them for targets on that "highway of death"? It's not like 100,000 dead peasants would make a noticeable dent in a population of Iraq - just make the remaining ones more hostile.

 miko

[Dowding (Work)]

Miko2d - you just don't get it do you? A weapons test is a scientific process that must be allowed to run its course.

Philistine.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by miko2d
 Why not just let them go instead of using them for targets on that "highway of death"? It's not like 100,000 dead peasants would make a noticeable dent in a population of Iraq - just make the remaining ones more hostile.

Excellent point. Since those were just farmers and stuff. They weren't Iraqi soldiers trying to get Iraqi military equiptment back across the border.  

-Sikboy