Bushista Narco Buddy Columbia IS Latin America's Israel
When Columbia crossed the border into Ecuador a few days ago and murdered (at last count) twenty one FARC guerrillas it wasn't doing anything unusual or illegal according to the US junta. After all, america's best little buddy in the middle east has been doing just that for decades. Coincidently, Columbia gets more foreign aid than any of it's neighbors while Israel gets more US aid than any other country in the world.
So when a buddy takes heat for what is roundly criticized as war provoking activity, the Bushistas and their lapdog media brownshirts spring into action. Whenever possible blame the victims, so reaching into their WOT bag o' tricks the Columbians claim three laptops somehow miraculously survived the bombing and contained information that FARC was looking to build uranium laced dirty bombs. This earth shattering bit of news is then spread far and wide as justification for the raid.
Problem is, as Eli points out, you can't make a dirty bomb with uranium.
"But uranium's extremely low radioactivity is harmless compared with high-radiation materials, such as cesium and cobalt isotopes used in medicine and industry that experts see as potential fuel for dirty bombs.
"I used a 20-pound brick of uranium as a doorstop in my office," American nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, of King's College in London, said to illustrate the point.Zimmerman, co-author of an expert analysis of dirty bombs for the U.S. National Defense University, said last week's government announcement was "extremely disturbing, because you cannot make a radiological dispersal device with uranium. There is just no significant radiation hazard."
Other specialists agreed. "It's the equivalent of blowing up lead," said physicist Ivan Oelrich of the Federation of American Scientists."
Bomb, laptop, hmm, where have we heard all this before? Oh yeah - the justification to ram new sanctions on Israel's nemesis Iran just a short time ago:
"Much of the information is not new and involves plans, designs and experimental results purportedly found on a laptop computer smuggled out of Iran in 2004 in unexplained circumstances. While providing details to the IAEA, the US administration refused to formally release the intelligence, or allow the IAEA to discuss its details with Iran."
So when a buddy takes heat for what is roundly criticized as war provoking activity, the Bushistas and their lapdog media brownshirts spring into action. Whenever possible blame the victims, so reaching into their WOT bag o' tricks the Columbians claim three laptops somehow miraculously survived the bombing and contained information that FARC was looking to build uranium laced dirty bombs. This earth shattering bit of news is then spread far and wide as justification for the raid.
Problem is, as Eli points out, you can't make a dirty bomb with uranium.
"But uranium's extremely low radioactivity is harmless compared with high-radiation materials, such as cesium and cobalt isotopes used in medicine and industry that experts see as potential fuel for dirty bombs.
"I used a 20-pound brick of uranium as a doorstop in my office," American nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, of King's College in London, said to illustrate the point.Zimmerman, co-author of an expert analysis of dirty bombs for the U.S. National Defense University, said last week's government announcement was "extremely disturbing, because you cannot make a radiological dispersal device with uranium. There is just no significant radiation hazard."
Other specialists agreed. "It's the equivalent of blowing up lead," said physicist Ivan Oelrich of the Federation of American Scientists."
Bomb, laptop, hmm, where have we heard all this before? Oh yeah - the justification to ram new sanctions on Israel's nemesis Iran just a short time ago:
"Much of the information is not new and involves plans, designs and experimental results purportedly found on a laptop computer smuggled out of Iran in 2004 in unexplained circumstances. While providing details to the IAEA, the US administration refused to formally release the intelligence, or allow the IAEA to discuss its details with Iran."
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