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| Terror Networks |
| The southern axis of evil involving NutJob and host of comic book villains. |
| 2007-10-02 |
| "Hitler" did New York and was received like, well, the new Adolf Hitler. Then he flew south and was received like a revolutionary hero. Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has seen the face of two radically different Americas. Call it a practical lesson in the new multipolar world order. read the sad story at the link. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #7 Imperial Japan started a war with America when we threatened to cut off fuel supplies without which their economy would quickly crash, correctly understanding that to be an act of undeclared war, if I remember my history books correctly. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-02 21:51 |
| #6 So long as China is buying oil no amount of conservation on our part will disempower these villains. We should instead take the oil. This cuts off all funding to the Orcs of Mecca and the Orcs of Qom and it puts the Red Chinese under a barrel (so to speak). |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-10-02 19:58 |
| #5 Agreed - the only pragmatic reason for Iran to have/demand lithium in large quantities is for the production of [post-Uranium] advanced nuclear devices. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-02 19:02 |
| #4 Besides mood-stabilization, lithium has other applications, according to Wikipedia: Lithium deuteride was the fusion fuel of choice in early versions of the hydrogen bomb. When bombarded by neutrons, both 6Li and 7Li produce tritium—this reaction, which was not fully understood when hydrogen bombs were first tested, was responsible for the runaway yield of the Castle Bravo nuclear test. Tritium fuses with deuterium in a fusion reaction that is relatively easy to achieve. Although details remain secret, lithium apparently no longer plays a role in modern nuclear weapons, having been replaced entirely for the purpose by elemental tritium, which is lighter and easier to handle than lithium salts. [citation needed] Metallic Lithium and its complex hydrides such as e.g. Li[AlH4] are considered as high energy additives to rocket propellants[3]. Lithium peroxide, Lithium nitrate, Lithium chlorate and Lithium perchlorate are used and thought of as oxidizers in both rocket propellants and oxygen candles to supply submarines and space capsules with oxygen.[8] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-10-02 17:52 |
| #3 the Iranians are very much interested in exploiting lithium and uranium in South America Lithium? Nutjob needs that much? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-10-02 17:46 |
| #2 rjschwarz, wishfull thinking. Rather to start exploiting what we have. As well as building new nuke power plants. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-02 17:12 |
| #1 If the US got off of oil these guys would just be tin-pot nothings. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-10-02 16:06 |