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2004-04-05 Home Front: WoT

Itâs a dirty job and terrorists are doing it

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-05 12:10:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lets say you placed a dirty bomb at an intersection for maximum dispersion. Can't you just use fire hoses to wash the material into the sewers?
This is one of those threats that is overblown I think. Now the giant alligators that attack the city a year later, THATS a real threat.

Posted by flash91 2004-04-05 10:34:40 AM|| 2004-04-05 10:34:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Everybody: Read this article! If anyone is still doubting that we're in a war, or that we should go home and forget it, this puts such to rest. And we better make sure we win.

Problem: I'm afraid many Americans and Westerners won't understand what's happening and support the appropriate actions until it's too late.

Excerpts:

"The most dangerous country for the United States now is Pakistan, and second is Iran."

The Cold War has been replaced by a hot war. The murder and intimidation of "infidels" has become an end in itself. In this war, Iraq is a sideshow.

If any of y'all out there have something encouraging to say regarding the info in this article, I'd like to hear it. The Fallujah thing certainly pales in comparison.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-04-05 10:44:00 AM|| 2004-04-05 10:44:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I assume the jihadis are aware that a dirty bomb in, say, Trafalgar Square, Times Square, Red Square, etc. might result in similar treatment for a certain popular black monolith and a few other select desert attractions? Needn't even be anything officially sanctioned, of course.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-04-05 2:20:52 PM|| 2004-04-05 2:20:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 BD - This is a job for Stephen King's character "Trashman" from The Stand... Just send him on the hajj and tell him Randall Flagg, "his Lord", requires it.

Posted by .com 2004-04-05 2:32:08 PM|| 2004-04-05 2:32:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I assume the jihadis are aware that a dirty bomb in, say, Trafalgar Square, Times Square, Red Square, etc. might result in similar treatment for a certain popular black monolith and a few other select desert attractions? Needn't even be anything officially sanctioned, of course.

Why shouldn't it be "officially sanctioned?"

If these maggots want to wreak nuclear terror on the West, then we need to start glassing over and windexing their most precious Holy sites. Wanna play tough with world powers? Fine, just be ready to accept some unbelievably dire consequences.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-05 6:18:23 PM|| 2004-04-05 6:18:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What Zen said,in spades.

Posted by Raptor 2004-04-05 8:55:59 PM|| 2004-04-05 8:55:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's your Zenster, Raptor:

Zenster, this is my favorite among your posts:

"Jen, only when and if he is ever properly elected will I then be grudgingly obliged to address him as you wish I would. His intentional blurring of the separation between church and state while simultaneously attempting to constitutionalize discrimination gets nothing but scorn from me.

Thank goodness we live in a country where we can disagree on this matter. Please know that you indeed have the privilege to dislike me for what I say, that is entirely your right. Understand one thing though, I don't do this to intentionally anger or offend you or anybody else.

As a proud American I cannot abide the White House's ham-fisted tampering with both the duties of executive office or our beloved constitution. Whatever proper intransigence might be shown for terrorism (as is demanded of all worthy commander in chiefs) still in no way confers any right to enshrine religious commandment as constitutional law, especially not in a nation wholly founded upon secular ideals. This is what he's attempting and my own ethicality demands that I consider it to be nothing less than malfeasance of office. Hence my scorn."

Oh, Dumpster, you're a treasure.

What a load of juicy bullshit.

He IS the duly elected President of the United States, fucktard. Proof that all else you may say is at the very least suspect, if not outright total fucking bullshit.
You're full of shit.

Your notion that he is "constitutionalizing discrimination" is truly insane. Proof?
You're full of shit.

You provide no proof of any "ham-fisted" actions - or anything even remotely associated.
You're full of shit.

As an atheist, I know he has not done anything that hasn't been done before for the last 30 years to "enshrine religious commandment as constitutional law". I most certainly would've noticed.
You're full of shit.

The phrase "my own ethicality demands that I consider it to be nothing less than malfeasance of office" is so utterly asinine and disingenuous as to be breathtaking. You couldn't prove any aspect of that charge if your worthless life depended upon it.
You're full of shit.

It is clear that you're one thoroughly conflicted and fucked up induhvidual - and given your comments, so anti-Bush that you'd remove him from office if you could. You obviously think President Gore is being denied his constitutional rights. You're fucking insane. It is not unreasonable to presume you will vote against Bush, therefore, so you are in league with the enemy - there is no sane RBer who could possibly believe Skeery would be worth warm spit in the Wot - your pathetic little aside about Commanders in Chief notwithstanding.
You are unbelievably amazingly self-defeatingly massively full of shit.

You're a troll.

Posted by .com 2004-04-05 9:00:18 PM|| 2004-04-05 9:00:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Another regular on Rantburg also has trouble with Zenster--told me he's not to be trusted. Remembesr he likes to call President Bush "Shrub." Hmm. Zendude, what say you?

Posted by ex-lib 2004-04-05 11:36:31 PM|| 2004-04-05 11:36:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ex-lib - Here ya go.

Posted by .com 2004-04-05 11:43:01 PM|| 2004-04-05 11:43:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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