[Carolina]

Nuke plant report from yesterday:

Marines hold nuclear site

[Howlin]

Live Thread ping for today!

[dsmtoday]

Thanks for the link about the nuke site.

Marines hold nuclear site
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_128200.html

Given that when someone finds a can of RAID, the media report it as a chemical weapons find, I can't believe I haven't heard anything else about that story. Any other backup to this story? What's the trust level on this story?

[dsmtoday]

Quick review of opinions... Who here thinks that France and the rest actually did us a giant favor with their obstinence?

Too many cooks spoil the broth - I'm glad they weren't part of the "coalition of the willing". We'd be getting second guessed by them constantly.

[BagCamAddict]

Did Pretty Chicken REALLY just ask "What is this square called?" in reference to the traffic circle???

[BagCamAddict]

MY BAD !! (I'm still reading the nuclear facility article, so I'm behind on posts)

That's not Pretty Chicken, that's Dr. Bob!! Dr. Bob made it to downtown Baghdad, up onto the top of the Palestine Hotel !! Wow, truely incredible.

[BagCamAddict]

Anyone who hasn't read the article about the nuclear facility should do it... it's an eye opener. Excerpt:

A few hundred meters outside the complex, where peasants say the "missile water" is stored in mammoth caverns, the Marine radiation detectors go "off the charts."

"It's amazing," said Chief Warrant Officer Darrin Flick, the battalion's nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist. "I went to the off-site storage buildings, and the rad detector went off the charts. Then I opened the steel door, and there were all these drums, many, many drums, of highly radioactive material."

(the rest of this is my ad lib)"So I went and opened one of the drums, and it was literally glowing green inside, filled with liquid, and in the bottom of the drum was a bar of pure uranium. So I reached down through the liquid and picked up the bar of uranium. I put it in my pocket so I could go show it to my commander. Then I went to another drum and opened it. Inside the drum was a suitcase. I removed the suitcase from the drum and set it on the ground. It had a combination lock, so I tried a few combinations and got it to pop open. Inside was a button that said "DANGER, don't push this button." So I pushed the button and...."