[GRRRRR]

This highway is a direct line to IRAK. I waited and waited and waited for FOX to get this story up on either the AIR or the NET...I hate giving any credit to the World News Network...(CNN)...this finding of potentially fissile materials in the hands of such people is more "poof" for little Tommy Daschole and the rest of the stinking Peace First Pacifists here and abroad.

These filthy marchers in DC, just want to sit back, they want to let the Commie Chinese poke and prode Saddam, give him money and the next thing you know, they are invading Saudi Arabia and the Commie Chinese are lobbing missiles into the ROC.

If you ever wonder what it might be like in a world dominated by the Islamic Terrorists and Commies, just go get Jeff Head's books...Dragon's Fury Vols 1 and 2. They are too real and scary.

GRRRRRollin'

[The Raven]

Weapons grade, mind you !!!

How much do they already have?

[PhilDragoo]

Stuff this cannister up Dashole.

Tommy Boy, you couldn't see this uranium because your head was in Uranus.

Let's do Iraq real soon, give Saddam an overdose of B-2.

When W has Jiang to his Crawford ranch on the 28th, he can say,

Don't mess with us, amigo, and by us I include Taiwan, comprende? Now, how about another beer?

[InvisibleChurch]

ya gotta wonder whether irak has bombs waiting for US troops...hussein would think nothing about nuking other irakis, and the left here would say it was a US nuke.... the daschle-ites would jump all over W for it

[templar]

Does anyone know exactly what constitutes weapons grade uranium as opposed to non weapons grade?

[BenLurkin]

YIKES! Rueters - Not exactly a fly by night outfit: meaning this story probably has some veracity.

Those who would wait for the U.N. do not have our nation's interest in their intentions.

[BluH2o]

I sent a copy of an earlier post, on this breaking news, to a few fence sitting pacifists I know ...
I told them not to expect to see anything this evening on national news ... this type of news is not what the pacifist liberal news networks want to hear ... makes their anti-Bush stance, on possible war with Iraq, hopeless.

[snopercod]

weapons-grade uranium

Does that mean U-235? Of what concentration? (I suppose that is too difficult a question for our American media.)

[Right Wing Professor]

If this story is fully accurate, it's by far the most frightening piece of hard news I've seen in the last five years. 15 kg of ²³⁵U enriched uranium is a super-critical mass. Simply collecting it together in one lump gets you a very messy little nuclear fizzle, and making a low-yield bomb out of it is something an intelligent physics or engineering undergrad., with a decent machine shop, could do.

There have been lots of vague stories about fissile material for sale on the black market, and I suspect most of them are bogus, but this looks like it's more substantial.

[TheEngineer]

Some Interesting Reading...

www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/articles/2001/bomb%20facts.htm

From the aforementioned web page...

Uranium-235 needed to make a bomb:

- 60 kilograms: Reported amount used in Hiroshima bomb "Little Boy."

- 50 kilograms: Weight of a solid sphere of 100 percent uranium-235 just large enough to achieve a critical mass without a reflector.

- 15 kilograms: Weight of a solid sphere of 100 percent uranium-235 just large enough to achieve a critical mass with a beryllium reflector.

- 16 kilograms: Amount needed for an Iraqi bomb design found by UN inspectors.

[wretchard]

From an Eastern European country, eh? Look at this graphic accompanying the news. It visibly says, "Made in W. Germany"

[concentric circles]

Response from the appeasing Left:

" How can we bomb Iraq for something that was found in Turkey?"

Any bets something like this will be heard on a Sunday talk show?

[republicman]

Do we have to see all of NYC go up in am mushroom cloud before the liberals will want to hit Iraq.

But of course intervention in Kosovo was vitally important /sarcasm

[Man of the Right]

If memory serves, 40-lb. is enough for a 20K nuclear weapon.