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Originally posted by uno
We havent' spent 300+ billion on Iraq and I'd like a source on that story about sending nuclear material around the world and driving it across the US. Sounds interesting.
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yeah when I looked it has only been around 150 billion and growing. I wonder if that number includes everything meaning cost of rebuilding, cost of having our soldiers there etc.
the story about them shipping in nuclear material was on either 20/20 about 9 months ago. they got some old nuclear material that still put off a radioactive signal. Got an expert in the nuclear field to tell them how much to get so that it would be around the same amount as a nuclear bomb. Then they went to Malaysia and put it in a shipping crate inside a chest with a bunch of furniture. They were never questioned or even inspected in the loading area. The ship came into Los Angeles and was inspected and not caught. They then put the chest on a truck and drove it to chicago. Nobody ever looked twice at them. Only when they turnned over their tapes to the FBI did they come around and start asking questions. You could tell the FBI was pissed and probably pretty embarassed.
the amazing this is that they did it twice. Thy did it on the one year anniversary of 9/11 and then showed the FBI then did it a second time. Here's the story about it http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/furanium.asp
the most telling quote in the story, to me, is "The fact that ABC News was able to smuggle in what could have been weapon-grade uranium a second time speaks volumes about the failure of the Bush administration to secure nuclear weapon materials," said Tom Cochran, the physicist who heads NRDC's Nuclear Program.
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