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Locus Coeruleus

8/10/2005 9:12 PM

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Rumsfeld: Iraq bombs 'clearly from Iran'
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Ness

8/10/2005 9:19 PM

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One official said the shipment included "tens" of bombs. WOW, thats an impressive number.
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Flayum

8/10/2005 9:47 PM

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I don't actually believe this will lead to a Iranian war. We really do have bigger fish to fry and, if anything, we need to stabilize Iraq sufficiantly before we "try" anything.
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mongoose201

8/10/2005 10:57 PM

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WOW, thats an impressive number. It certainly is impressive, especially since it only takes one.
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Ness

8/10/2005 11:12 PM

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It certainly is impressive, especially since it only takes one. It only takes one to do what? I think finding a sword would be more impressive that a single small bomb. A single sword can kill thousands of people, a single bomb of the calibre they found might kill 20 people if all the people were concentrated in the trajectory path of the bombs explosion area. I mean, its good that they found them, but common, tens of bombs, if an Iraqi wants bombs, they can just take them from the numerous unprotected bomb storage areas in the desert like they did last year, and get thousands of bombs, tens is hardly impressive.
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mongoose201

8/10/2005 11:33 PM

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It only takes one to do what? Umm.. kill dozens of people. Not everything is about the "great scheme" of things. It's a lot of little things that add up to big things.. These particular bombs are confiscated, and perhaps a planned attack is thwarted for the time being, giving authorities that much more time to close in on those responsible.. Is it a perfect system? Of course not. But those 'tens' of bombs could add up to hundreds of lives saved. Oh.. and these days, nobody is using swords much in battle situations. Although I understand the analogy you were trying to make, we are not talking about hostage taking and we are also not talking about feudal Japan.
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CivFan

8/11/2005 1:25 AM

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I think the whole point is where they came from, not how many there are. Considering how easy it must be to get a bomb in a war-torn country, especially one such as present-day Iraq, we can only speculate on how many lives actually were saved. Maybe hundreds, or maybe none, as the bombs will just be gotten from somewhere else.
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Ness

8/11/2005 2:07 AM

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By my original statement, I was referring more to the fact that, why not just say, "We found approximately 50 bombs” or something of the nature. I think the context in which it was used, "tens of bombs" is generally used for tens of thousands" or something in a large quantity where they have not counted them all, but can estimate at the approximate number by saying tens of thousands. Tens of bombs just sounds silly.
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jerm

8/11/2005 7:04 PM

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It does sound silly. It's funny that CNN decided to throw that silly terminology in instead of trying to find out a more specific number. Looks like they did their job in making the administration look "silly".
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mongoose201

8/11/2005 9:56 PM