Fox News reporting marines find "weapons grade plutonium"

Fox News ^

[JustRight]

On TV right now.

[snippy_about_it]

I'm proud to have a President who protected the US from lunatics and their terrorist friends running loose with Atomic, Biological and Chemical weapons.

Amen gw.

[areafiftyone]

They are already posting it. But the poster already started saying that the guy from the Pittsburg Tribune is not listed on their website so in other words this will be called Propaganda until one of their commie papers picks it up. Fox is considered the Faux channel to them.

[agrace]

That must be because she is fluent in Arabic, as discussed here on FR a few months ago...am I remembering that correctly?

[finnman69]

al Tuwaitha in Arabic means "nothing to see here"

[kpp_kpp]

>OK Liberals, what's your excuse now????


"We are occupiers not liberators"

[JustRight]

"Capt. John Seegar, a combat engineer commander from Houston, is currently running the operation in Al Tuwaitha. "I've never seen anything like it, ever," he told the Tribune-Review. "How did the world miss all of this? Why couldn't they see what was happening here?"

It's just a naturally occuring deposit of weapons grade plutonium in the Iraqi desert. Allah has truly blessed the people of Iraq with both the oil to build palaces for the great Saddam, and the weapons to smite his attackers.

[peeve23]

You're right (and who am I to argue with EOD...are you quasis?)

Besides, I'm sure they were telling the truth about the reinforced aluminum tubing that el baredei said was really just for missile bodies or some such nonsense.

[texasbluebell]

She is also the only anchor I've heard who pronounces arab names properly.

Linda V. is a speaker of Farsi!

[MamaLucci]

I believe that Linda is an expert of sorts on the Middle East,
and speaks several languages.
I will look for some info on her and post it.

[John H K]

Probably should wait for official announcements from US military or government officials before gloating, as we've learned before.

I doubt the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employs a lot of nuclear engineers as reporters.

There's once again infinite possibilities for "breaking information that turns out to be wrong" in this story.

[Dog]

Can you get weapons grade stuff using centrifuges??

[Donna Lee Nardo]

It was originally an "alleged" site for jihadists. Then, it was taken over by a group of technical savvy folks who turned it into a bulleting board where arabic e-mails, pictures and postings are culled from the many arabic web sites that pop up continually (before they are shut down by the Feds) and then are translated by "al qaeda hunters." I am a lurker at the board, not one of the posters.

http://www.itshappening.com/forumdisplay.php?s=8312215791f6eaa4eb299fa4332de423&forumid=5

[Agent Smith]

FOX employs TOGO WEST? BARF!

[mvpel]

Never mind the radiation, plutonium is toxic just for being a heavy metal. Contact with skin is deadly.

No need to whip up mindless hysteria, leave that to the Democrats...

CDC Fact Sheet: Plutonium has not been shown to cause adverse health effects in people. Animal studies have shown lung diseases from short-term exposure to high concentrations of plutonium. Animal studies have also shown effects on the blood, liver, bone, and immune system from plutonium exposure.

Mercury is more of a heavy-metal toxin than plutonium, and yet I'm still here after rolling little balls of mercury around on my palm when I was a kid.

[concerned about politics]

Ultimately they will say, "So what if Iraq has nukes, why should the US be the only country with them?"

"So? Why worry about that little stuff? What about health care? Day care? Housing, food, and clothing for us American victims? What about proscription drug coverage? What about all the stuff I want.... The stuff I want...... All the free stuff I want....I want.....I want....?"

[ladyjane]

Next question...Has any of it left the premises

I wondered why the administration was in a hurry to get in there. I wonder what else they know.

[b4its2late]

How can this be? The UN Atomic Energy thingy said they didn't have anything.... /sarcasm

[magslinger]

This kinda finding is only gonna mushroom
No, we're trying to keep it from mushrooming.
Thank you, God for GWB,and guide and protect him in his defence of th U.S.!

[Redcloak]

Rest assured that Tom Daschle is deeply saddened at this news.

[conservababeJen]

OK Liberals, what's your excuse now????

While I love my mother dearly, I must admit that she is a drooling liberal. I asked her this very question last night and she called "us" (we Americans) "bullies". She doesn't care that a "few" Iraqis are happy about "us" being there. she wants to know why "we" should take out this dictatorship (since there are so many). She said that this is all about GW's desire for oil control. She said that we will never find WoMD. She said we have proved NO LINK TO TERRORISM...

*sigh*
I love my mother.....
But I hung up on her anyway.