On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Keith Addison wrote:
> Now what does all that remind me of? Weak. If there were a smoking
> gun we'd definitely know all about it beyond any doubt. Just oil. And
> politics. The two hopelessly confused as ever, when it comes to the
> US.
I agree with you about oil and politics being hopelessly intertwined, and
that oil (along with political gain) does have too much to do with our
current motivation towards going after Iraq. But, there ARE other valid
reasons as well. Do you know anyone from Iraq? I work with a physicist who
fled Iraq with his family years ago to escape. He, along with many other
Iraqis, want Saddam ousted from power, and a true democratic government
established. His regime is a regime of terror - not only threatening
Israel and the US, but also neighboring countries, and killing large
numbers of people within Iraq because of their ethnicity, religion, or
just to test some weapons.
If Germany had large oil reserves, then back in 1941 would you have been
saying that we shouldn't get involved militarily in what was going on in
Europe, because our motivation must be based strictly on oil, since there
is oil there?
The fact is, some people are just plain evil (malicious, egocentric, and
dangerous).
Personally, I don't think our first priority right now should be going
after Saddam. It should be securing the cold war era nukes and fissionable
material (that are relatively poorly guarded) in the countries of the
former Soviet Union, to try to prevent the MANY countries/organizations
that want to get their hands on it from doing so. We should help Russia
and the other countries build their economies, in exchange for letting us
glassify all the fissionable material that's just sitting around.
Mike
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>
> Keith
>
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:42 AM
> >Subject: RE: [biofuel] The BBC has been fooled by a CIA set
> >up...NOT
> >
> >
> > > >15,000 grams, so that's 15,000/19=790 cubic centimeters. So,
> >if it was 2
> > > >feet long (24 inches, at 2.54 cm per inch, so 61 cm long),
> >then the
> > > >cross-sectional area must be 790/61=13 cm^2. So, assuming it's
> >a cylinder,
> > > >the radius would be slightly more than 2 cm, or a diameter of
> >4 cm (a
> > > >little over 1.5 inches). Yeah, that would be tough to fit
> >under a seat.
> > > >(sarcasm)
> > >
> > >
> > > You wouldn't be sarcastic for long with no shielding. You left
> >shielding out
> > > in your eagerness to stuff it under the seat.
> > >
> > > Kirk
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael S Briggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:37 PM
> > > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: [biofuel] The BBC has been fooled by a CIA set
> >up...NOT
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > OK, so what is the gamma fluence from a 15%U235 pencil 15
> >kilos and 2 or
> > > > so
> > > > > feet long? Remember effective half life decreases as sample
> >increases
> > > > since
> > > > > U235 is neutron sensitive. Is 15% hot enough for a bomb or
> >just a
> > > reactor?
> > >
> > > You wouldn't make a bomb with it still in 15% concentration,
> >but there
> > > would be enough U-235 in there to make one (you just need to
> >separate it
> > > out, which can be done with those centrifuges Saddam recently
> >purchased).
>
> etc etc
>
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