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2003-03-18 Fifth Column

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Posted by FOTSGreg 2003-03-18 01:48 pm|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 apparently Mugabe's rape rooms, the slave trade, and endless despotic torture chambers do not merit her attention as does America's inability to liberate millions of oppressed Iraqis without accidently killing as few as we possibly can. Nor does she care if another 3,000 innocent Americans are incinerated into dust, other than the fact that her maid never seems to properly wipe it all off her fine furniture.

Posted by becky 2003-03-18 13:40:30|| 2003-03-18 13:40:30|| Front Page Top

#2 *shakes head* This is a fisking, not a news item.

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-18 13:55:41|| 2003-03-18 13:55:41|| Front Page Top

#3 FYI, Hackworth is USA, ret., not USMC, ret.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-03-18 14:04:17|| 2003-03-18 14:04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I prefer the equivalence between nuclear and conventional weapons. W80s for all!

Posted by Brian 2003-03-18 14:59:59|| 2003-03-18 14:59:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I suppose that the authoritarian left's pretense of concern for the lives of innocents is the worst and most evil aspect of their long-running effort to preserve brutal dictatorships and promote their own social superiority. This sickening whore lies when it suits her, pretends to care about children when her real objective is genocide, and actually gets a pass from the media for it all. This is about to end. These people have a lot to answer for, and it's time to collect.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-03-18 15:18:33|| [www.nuclearspace.com] 2003-03-18 15:18:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Ptah - Sorry, thought it was relevent.
11A5S - You're right. My apologies and memory enhancement duly noted and logged.

Posted by FOTSGreg 2003-03-18 15:43:03|| 2003-03-18 15:43:03|| Front Page Top

#7 This silly scrag's scribblings entomb everthing I loath about the hypocritical handwringing dictator-supporting left. But please, please do not call her 'slut' or 'whore' as this denigrates perfectly self-respecting women who either like to have a lot of sex, or who sell sex for money.

Posted by anon1 2003-03-18 17:50:23|| 2003-03-18 17:50:23|| Front Page Top

#8 also: does anybody have a reference source for *exactly* how many Iraqi children (TM) were killed a) by sanctions b)by GW1, and c) by Saddam?

It would certainly help to quantify in an argument with the looney left.

Posted by anon1 2003-03-18 17:53:23|| 2003-03-18 17:53:23|| Front Page Top

#9 anon1, The answer is c) (for all of them, however many there are). Without Saddam there'd be no b), and hence no a) either. But try explaining that to a leftie...

Posted by Bulldog 2003-03-18 18:06:47|| 2003-03-18 18:06:47|| Front Page Top

#10 "Die you ignorant commie slut traitor." Bravo FOTSGreg!!! That's the language of diplomacy we need to hear more often in the UN.

Posted by Sgt.DT 2003-03-18 19:08:47|| 2003-03-18 19:08:47|| Front Page Top

#11 A couple of technical points:

The Soviet 125mm tank gun, the main gun for the T-64 and T-72 series of tanks have a DU round available to it. It is impossible for me to believe the coalition tanks were the only one launching these projectiles. I don't recall any references to the Soviet APDSFSDU round being fired in this missive, as it undoubtedly was.

Second, you can always tell a polemicist who doesn't have the facts at hand. They use such phrases as "as many as', 'no fewer than' and at least. But my favorite is the phrase 'as many as.' My counter is that the writer also means as few as zero.

Third, for my part, I don't want a woman as wacky as this getting a hold of my root.

Posted by badanov 2003-03-18 19:35:05|| [www.rkka.org] 2003-03-18 19:35:05|| Front Page Top

#12 I've gotta stick up for Greg - I didn't think it was inappropriate as background info . Fred?

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-18 21:16:40|| 2003-03-18 21:16:40|| Front Page Top

#13 It's appropriate as an example of what the fifth column's hollering about - that's why I left it in.

Posted by Fred 2003-03-18 21:48:10|| 2003-03-18 21:48:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, she's full of it concerning 'empty radioactive shells'. DU rounds are solid, meant to penetrate armor not explode.

As for the plea to soldier's 'in the name of God'...the best reply is this from a WWII GI talking to Ambrose:
"Imagine this. In the spring of 1945, around the world, the sight of a twelve man squad of teenage boys, armed and in uniform brought terror to people's hearts. Whether it was a Red Army squad in Berlin or Leipzig, or Warsaw, or a German squad in Holland, or a Japanese squad in Manilla or Seoul or Bejiing, that squad meant rape, pillage, looting, wanton destruction, senseless killing. But there was an exception, a squad of GI's" [and I would add a squad of Tommy's]"a sight that brought the biggest smiles...."
I would go on but you get the picture as this cow never would. The grand sons and grand daughters of these GI's and Tommy's are in the desert even now and would make their fathers and grandfathers proud in every measure. That she so cavalierly demeans them as 'child killers' I can only say SHAME ON YOU Magie Dominic.

Sorry for my long-windedness, but this child-killer shit gets right under my skin....I guess mad-cow Magie is the first to publically state such?

Posted by Steve Snake Driver 2003-03-18 22:38:29|| 2003-03-18 22:38:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Maggie Dominic = Bene Geseret Witch

Posted by anon 2003-03-18 23:28:55|| 2003-03-18 23:28:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Here's a response that I wrote to articles in the Seattle P-I about the use of DU rounds by the Navy earlier this year:

To the Editor,

I agree with the article's implication that contamination of the ocean with radioactive material would alarm fishermen and consumers alike. However, I hope you will take the time to do further research on the actual level of danger to the public.

The article correctly states that depleted uranium remains radioactive for approximately 4.5 billion years. Basically, the time period you refer to is the radioactive half-life of the material. The half-life for a given radioisotope is the time for half the radioactive nuclei in any sample to undergo radioactive decay. After two half-lives, there will be one fourth the original sample, after three half-lives one eighth the original sample, and so on.

For example, Plutonium is one of the most highly radioactive materials on earth--so much so that it is not normally found in nature, but is created by man through atomic fission. Plutonium's half-life is approximately 24,000 years (Knapp, Brian, Nuclear Physics, 1996). The end of the decay process results in a material that is stable, like lead.

In fact, depleted uranium's long half life makes it useful for radiation shielding! Some DU applications include use in medical isotope casks, radioactive source shields, tank armor, and ammunition for the CIWS (AKA Phalanx) and the A-10 aircraft used by the Air Force and National Guard.

The real "danger" of DU is not radioactivity, but toxicity. Uranium is a heavy metal, like arsenic, cadmium, barium, zinc, lead and mercury. Given the small number of rounds fired during the tests you reported, the level of toxic exposure in a given area of the sea is virtually statistically insignificant. Ironically, the lead weights that fishermen use to hold down their baited hooks and nets are much more commonly deposited in the ocean environment than DU. Perhaps your next story can sensationalize that danger?

One of the best articles on the risks of exposure to DU is a recent study by the British Royal Society--the summary is all you need to read.

I've linked to the summary if you need more info.

Posted by Jim 2003-03-19 01:49:41|| [www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-168.pdf] 2003-03-19 01:49:41|| Front Page Top

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