Dirty Bomb goes off tomorrow....Your first thought is....

[Junkdrawer]

Poll question: Dirty Bomb goes off tomorrow....Your first thought is....

[HereSince1628]

1. First thought? Sure glad I don't live THERE!

[helderheid]

2. I love your sig - I'd participate in your poll but I'm too nervous today.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Did I miss something?

Is there a terrorist attach scheduled for tomorrow?

[Junkdrawer]

4. Nah, just a hypothetical and a measurement of this gang's credibility...

with the DU crowd...

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. Or the ambient paranoia level.

Today's paranoia index is: Orange

[zbdent]

5. Good one, Rove . . .

but the righties would not see this as Bush's failure to protect the US . . . :silly:

[ET Awful]

6. To grab Bernie Kerrick by the arm and say "Thank God George Bush is

our president."

:evilgrin:

[TheBaldyMan]

7. Where's Iran going to get enough nuclear material for a dirty bomb?

they only have a tiny amount of 3.5% enriched Uranium. Unless they have been smuggling sweepings of DU from Iraq it would be impossible to obtain.

This just another scaremongering thread.

Do you feel the need to poll about the next scariest nation because the "Iran is about to attack!" threads have worn thin?

[Junkdrawer]

11. I think the poll shows that we're MUCH more afraid of Cheney than Iran n/t

[NoPasaran]

27. Cheney has a long history of evildoing

Iran, for all the hype, not so much.

[Tesha]

14. I dunno; it took me a good *TEN SECONDS* on Google!

http://www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impreso/web_columnas_sup.detalle?var=23950

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Remember kids, the makings of a radiological bomb are as close
as your nearest hospital (and a bunch of incompetent junkyards)!

Tesha

[Junkdrawer]

16. Seen this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2236825&mesg_id=2236825

[Tesha]

19. I would imagine that the truly bold and highly-motivated...

I would imagine that the truly bold could come come up
with a way to lift a few kilos of spent fuel.

But see, that's the really cool part about an NBC weapon:
You don't even need it to be effective! You only need it
to "trip" the monitoring systems and society will do tons
of damage for you in the ensuing panic!

The amount of radionuclides needed to achieve *THAT*
threshold could almost certainly be met from any big
hospital's pharmacy.

Tesha

[Junkdrawer]

20. Yep. All the "let's rally behind the pResident" effects without...

the lasting damage to the economic infrastructure.

[TheBaldyMan]

21. so they get sweepings form Brazil & Mexico waste dumps?

With Bush's enviromental record a dirty bomb might not show up aginst background levels.

[Tesha]

24. I'll take that as sarcasm.

For all of the woes we have with pollution of the
air, water, and ground, there isn't that much
nuclear material floating around most days.

Look at how most of the west learned about Chernobyl:
Nuclear detectors started going off all over Scandinavia.

If a radiological weapon were detonated in America,
you can bet that somebody would know about it. It's
quite likely our government would try very hard not
to tell us about the radiological aspects of the
blast, but but they'd know about them.

Tesha

[TheBaldyMan]

25. not sarcasm unfortunately, it seems that anyone with a pick-up can

build a dirty bomb. My original point was why single out Iran. There gave been a lot of Muslim bashers trying to whip up hysteria in GD and GDP recently. This thread is yet another trying to sustain the panic.

The main driving force behind all of them is bigotry.

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Thank you President Bush. n/t

[aikoaiko]

9. Got to get to my BOB and family. nt

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Good thing it went off over there!

:P

Actually, my first thought would be where's my kids.

[shenmue]

12. "We're screwed"

"President Laughing Boy had to go f*** with Iran, didn't he."

[TheFarseer]

13. after all this bluster about how we are safer

this can still happen. President bush is a miserable failure and all his fighting over there so we don't have to fight them here is complete nonsense just as we all suspected. But I would still think it was Al Queda

[CabalPowered]

17. other: where's that strange thread about $.5M found on drivers near nuke

plant?

[Junkdrawer]

18. IBM...

It's Been Moved...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x83280

[DemoTex]

22. MIHOP

Again.

[underpants]

23. I hope I am at least 4 blocks away and the wind is blowing away

then I would go to a hospital and get checked out probably followed by a shower at home.

Then I would sit back and watch them try to cover for themselves (No attack since 9/11* huh?)

* please ignore the 9 dead from the Anthrax mailings.

[Skidmore]

26. *'s poll numbers must be at less than 20.

[uppityperson]

28. "aw fuck mrbushandhisevilminions"