Fox News reporting marines find "weapons grade plutonium"

Fox News ^

[JustRight]

On TV right now.

[fight_truth_decay]

What would you do differently? They have not substantiated anything only a possibility. The reporter already had it out to his Pa. paper.

Interested. F_T_D

[fuzzy122]

I think it was Russian!

MEGA-

Stay Strong
Fuzzy

[El Sordo]

Give this a little time.

It was probably identified through preliminary assemsment of level and type of radioactivity as well as color (Pu goes from green to pink depending on level of enrichment. But, it's been a while so don't hold me to that).

The men in the field are making rough estimates based on superficial info. A sample was probably winging its way to a proper test facility within an hour of discovery. Let's see if it pans out.

[The Right Stuff]

War is Bad....but only when waged by Republicans

[NYC Republican]

I assume you've seen the commercial? Where the daughter gets a quarter (saved in a jar) each time a family member loses their temper, she got enough to buy a bike... Great commercial.

[fight_truth_decay]

This has turned to 'chat'..will tune in when there is a story.

Respectfully
f_t_d

[concerned about politics]

I assume you've seen the commercial? Where the daughter gets a quarter (saved in a jar) each time a family member loses their temper, she got enough to buy a bike... Great commercial.

If we chose to do that, I wouldn't be able to afford one evening of Peter Jennings. I'd have to use credit cards.

[Poohbah]

What would you do differently? They have not substantiated anything only a possibility. The reporter already had it out to his Pa. paper.

I would avoid the purple prose on the website and in the studio until there was more solid info.

[Not Insane]

>>Not to mention the entertainment value of watching the three-foot long cockroaches fight with the six-foot rats over left-over cheetos. <<

Oh, yeah. Easy for you to say, but what about "THEM!"

[fuzzy122]

HOLY SH*T!!!

MEGA-

Stay Strong
Fuzzy

[ican'tbelieveit]

Amen for your comments. I am tired of hearing how professional CNN/MSNBC are in reporting this war. They released info on the POW's/executed soldiers, even though they were asked not to.

They released private information on PFC Lynch even though they were asked not to.

And in channel surfing this morning I happened across CNN heading into a commercial. They chose to show a picture representing Bush as Hitler. With all of the incredible photos of Iraqi's being liberated yesterday, celebrating, they chose that picture.

[Lucas1]

Canadian Newspapers are already claiming there never were weapons of mass destruction...

[Warren]

Fer sur, like Chirac said, he wouldn't believe it if he saw it. An obvious plant by imperialistic U.S. infidels.

[MamaLucci]

I haven't seen Rita lately. What exactly did she leak?
Her breathlessly erroneus report of a Gore win
at the Supreme Court during the 2000 elections,
turned me off from her for good.

[sissyjane]

Fox interviewed the author of the article.

[Republic Rocker]

Looks like nothing...KABC News in LA just said........

The Marines did not know it was a know facility. The Nuke Org. had capped it however the high radioactive readings may be from recent tampering......

Dirty Bombs could have been made.....

So SO news IMHO

[Not Insane]

>>We took that to mean it was a serious nuclear threat.<<

I think that was supposed to be the effect.

However, I seem to remember a "mother of all battles" somewhere back there as well.

[Keith]

My mom on Klinton: "sex isn't a crime"

Except that in laws passed by Clinton's congress, having sex with a 21 year old subordinate IS!

My mom on my conservatism: "How did my only child turn into such a fanatical-rightwing-fascist?"

Mom, I didn't know you were Saddam Hussein's mother as WELL!!Oh, you mean me...well, seems like I had better reproduce A LOT to cancel out your vote.

My mom on the war: "I don't trust GW, he's an oil monger"

Yea, Mom, it's in his back yard and he wants it at $2 a gallon cuz he knows that will guarantee him re-election.

My mom on Ann Coulter: "I hate that bitch"

yea, but she has great legs and is smart as a whip. I wanna be a bitch like that someday.

My mom on 2000 pres election: "Al Gore was robbed"

yes, and I am SO GRATEFUL! Wait till you see how we are gonna steal the election next time!

My mom on Foxnews: "liars"

yea, truth hurts. but it's Daschele's pants that are on fire.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Not to mention the headline in breaking news about MSNBC reporting 4 dead marines in a suicide bomb. The other channels are just as guilty of Fox in trying to get the scoop first.

[John H K]

Ok, here is the changed portion of the new revised Fox text article, the first to actually mention Plutonium:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83821,00.html

"BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Marines may have found weapons-grade plutonium in a massive underground facility discovered beneath Iraq's Al Tuwaitha nuclear complex, an embedded reporter told Fox News Thursday.

Coalition forces are investigating a stash of radioactive material found at the site south of Baghdad, the reporter, Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, told Fox News.

The material was discovered at the complex, which is operated by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission and is located south of Baghdad's suburbs.

While officials aren't prepared to call the discovery a "smoking gun," two preliminary tests conducted on the material have indicated that it may be weapons-grade plutonium."


My basic point is people shouldn't be running off to DU to post and gloat or e-mailing their anti-war friends to gloat based on "two preliminary tests" that indicate "it MAY be weapons-grade plutonium."