Make that tonnes (more…)
Filed Under (Biased Media) by Don C on 22-10-2007
The Reuters headline proclaims 19 tons of explosives found in Iraq. Inside the story it reads “nearly” nineteen tons.
U.S. forces in Iraq discovered nearly 19 tons of explosives in a weapons cache north of Baghdad this week, one of the biggest finds of its kind, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
I wonder if this discovery is reported the mainstream media and if so on what page. This particular Reuter’s story is six graphs, one of which contains directions to the cache and another two about how gory car bombs are. In the only paragraph that talks about what was found they misunderestimate:
The find was made up of 41,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate and 35 mortar bombs. U.S. forces destroyed the cache.
Even though Reuters didn’t indicate metric tonnes in the article the math is correct if you use 2,205 instead of 2,000 in your computations. Then stating the find was “nearly’ 19 tonnes is correct–if 35 mortar shells don’t weigh anything at all. But 6 inchers (155mm) weigh about 22 pounds each. They go up from there. Eight inch (203mm) shells weigh about 220 pounds. So 35 small shells would weigh nearly a half ton and 35 203mm shells would weigh well over three tons, metric or not.
I guess “nearly nineteen” sounds better than nearly twenty if you are constitutionally incapable of reporting anything good from Iraq.
Timothy McVeigh’s bomb was only about 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate. I bet if about thirty five bombs like McVeighs were to go off around Baghad the NYT, WaPo, and the rest of the mainstream media would run a Page 1 above the fold story around the clock until we surrendered.
Hurray for the surge. Remember come election time that the libs wanted to surrender unconditionally when all we needed to do was send over a mere 20,000 more troops. Wusses.
more… in regards to Iran’s threat of 11,000 missiles a minute…
I guess since this piece is pretty much a rant anyway I’ll go ahead and say that the Arabs need to thank Allah the next time they hit the mat — All Arabs should be thankful that the United States has a professional military and civilized civilian leadership (if not severely disabled) instead a bunch of ya-hoos like they have in charge of their command and control. Because their asses would have already been swatted down if we ran our operation anything like theirs.
If America were to issue a tank to any citizen of fighting age who requested one along with transport to whatever shithole they needed to go, there would come an end to the bullshit or everything gets blown to the ground. Spoils of war. Issue the Letters of Mark to make it all official. Bring the beautiful Persian women back home and treat them like, er, concubines? Heh. Leave the filth to rot in the Hell they brought down on themselves.
And don’t say that we can’t just turn a bunch of hotheads loose with state-of-the-art battle tanks, because I say we can, if we wanted to. It seems there will always be some scheming sack of shit lurking under every rock waiting to pounce on any opportunity for world domination. I don’t see why it would suddenly change. If you are not hitting these guys in the mouth they are scheming to stab you in the back, and eye, and neck. The dictator/tyrant types never go away either. They either win or they are killed. I think most normal people know this since it’s been proven over and over again. It’s the bully syndrome writ large.
If Saddam hadn’t been killed, he probably would have made a spring comeback this year with all the Democratic support he had in the House and Senate.
