[Coleus]

Radiation sickness drug could save thousands

[Paladin2]

Mecca assured destruction. MAD.

[bvw]

This is raw stock tooting by Sixty Minutes. 100,000 acute cases of rad posioning is a lot more than small nuclear device would deliver even if set off in Union City NJ -- imo.

[Doogle]

SHUUUUUUUSH!! CBS....your scaring Hilderbeast

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Am I sure I want to be 'saved" and be around for what follows in this country after an attack? What a F...g nitemare. And our congress is just a ship of Fools. I am so depressed I am going out to get ice cream.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Democrats and a few Republicans are hell-bent on welcoming this kind of calamity!

It's not fair listening to the terrorists' cell phone calls.

Why doesn't Congress just make a law requiring every other American to be beheaded by Christmas!?

[Alexander Rubin]

Ping for later reading.

[theFIRMbss]

>That’s because the Pentagon — after decades of searching — believes it has found a drug to treat radiation exposure. Why isn’t that drug available?

So, the Pentagon
knocks on your door, and they want
to give you a shot.

How many Freepers
are gonna roll up their sleeves
and get injected?!

[Triggerhippie]

Even the worst case scenario isn't all that bad...

1) Muslims nuke a major city (most are predominantly democratic bastions)
2) The attack results in fewer DUmmies to steal elections/cause crime/murder the unborn/vote for socialists/live off the government teat.
3) We "honor their memory" by nuking Mecca.

I can live with that.

[right right]

I suggest they hit San Francisco, Vermont, or Massataxus.

[mkjessup]

Yeah, but for Howard Dean and the rest of the DefeatoCrats, the "Worst Case Scenario" is really the "Best Case Scenario" because a nuclear terrorist attack opens up the door to all sorts of political opportunities in which the 'Rats can blame the Republican Party for a "miserable failure" (thank YOU Dick Gephardt) in allowing such an attack to take place, you can bet your last dime that while Red Cross teams are trying to save lives, the 'Rat Party will be trying to assess their chances for seizing power at the earliest opportunity.

Cynical? Not at all. This is based on the proven behavior of the Wellstoners and King "mourners" who have demonstrated what their priorities are.

[sono]

[Brilliant]

"We can no longer ignore the worst-case scenario of a nuclear terrorist attack on an American city."




Hmmmmm... I don't think the rest of us have been doing that. Only the media and the Congress.

[YOUGOTIT]

BUTT CBS, NYT, TWP, ABC, NBC, CNN, LAT, ACLU, Bob Barr and the left wing say we should not monitor the terrorist without a warrant. So we can do nothing if the judge says NO and the enemy is laughing at the idiots who say we cannot monitor them.

DUMB, DUMB, DUMB

[Yaelle]

Maybe I'm an idiot here, but why does the GOVERNMENT need to purchase said drug? Why can't individuals purchase it themselves, through their doctors? Why do we need to go through the government for this? Will Big Brother buy the duct tape for everyone's windows, too?

[The Duke]

The 9/11 Commission considers such an attack the No. 1 threat today, not because it’s the most likely disaster scenario, but because it would be the most devastating.

I suspect there are things these terrorists could do that would be comparatively destructive to a nuke (and much less costly). The powers that be need to be using their imaginations.

[JohnBovenmyer]

If "Red Star Rogue" is correct The Worst-Case Scenario, a nuclear attack on the US, already happened. On March 7, 1968 a highly placed, but not ruling, renegade clique within the USSR attempted to nuke Pearl Harbor and frame Mao for it. And we thus know what a Democrat President would do in that case. Hide that it ever happened. If the book's reading of what's known is correct we have the foresight of a Republican President to thank for the attack's failure. Thank you, Ike, for leaking fail safe technology in the 50s. It kept 50 stars on the flag. The subsequent Republican President, Nixon, used this as diplomatic leverage against the USSR in general and told Breznev enough so he could pull the clique's teeth.

If the book is correct than now is the time for the secret to become known. So we realize that small groups of powerful nut cases are capable and willing to nuke us. If Yuri Andropov, as the head of the KGB, and his mentor Suslov, the top Soviet ideologue, did it; we can't discount that the head of Iran and their top Mullahs would do it. They might not fail.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Hundreds of thousand of people could die in a nuclear attack, but hundreds of thousands of others could be saved.

Lets concentrate on stopping said nuclear bomb detonating in the first place, and not setting the ground for post nuclear lawyer trust funds.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Does Ed Bradley hold Hollis-Eden stock?

[Doc Savage]

Absolute rubbish. Platelets and neutrophils. The same cells physicians worry about following a stem cell transplant or haematopioetic cell transplant. Several drugs (cytokines) have been available for years to stimulate neutrophil and platelet production. A totally bogus story.

Depending upon the degree of radiation you are exposed to there may be absolutely nothing that can be done for you, or, indeed, you may be able to survive with treatment if you only receive a slight degree of radiation.

Want to treat radiation sickness the most effective way??????????????????????????? Turn Iran and Syria into glass NOW!