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• • 26 Aug 05
  • 11:50 pm

  Dear Roger: Here is what it has come to: I don't believe a single thing that you posted. I will not bother to check your links or the articles you referred to. I assume that they are all lies. At this point, I automatically assume that anyone supporting the Bush administration and their policies is either a moron, a useful idiot, or a shill. I would categorize you as somewhere between useful idiot and shill, with the proponderance of evidence toward shill. There has been no truth forthcoming from the Bush administration or the Pentagon. Zero. All lies and spin. Possibly …

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• • 27 Aug 05
  • 12:32 am

  Quote: "I do not believe in spreading lies that are costing American lives." Interesting. Would you care to explain how posting information on uranium poisoning is costing American lives?

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• • 27 Aug 05
  • 2:51 pm

  Jsong: Do you understand what a "dirty bomb" is? That is how uranium/plutonium contamination can be used for "area deniability" and long term damage. At the time of the Manhattan project, they did not really know if atomic weapons would explode, but they knew that the bomb would at least blow up (because of the TNT charge) and scatter radioactive particles over a wide area. Apologies to John McCarthy, I just couldn't stand it. : ) Interestingly, there is a school of thought that claims atomic bombs DO NOT work, that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were actually just …

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• • 31 Aug 05
  • 2:03 am

  m_astera here again. I've been out of town for a few days, but I see that the argument has been in good hands. Eadora posted above that as of January of 2004, 518,000 of 580,000 Gulf War I vets were on medical disability. So 90% of our soldiers are disabled from that one. Cui bono? (who benefits?) As I write this, the Southern States have been severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina; New Orleans is largely under water with bodies floating in the streets. Meanwhile, over 4,000 Lousiana Nat'l Guard troops and most of their equipment are in Iraq, and unavailable to …

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• • 31 Aug 05
  • 2:27 am

  As an addendum to what songbd posted above on detoxing, the herb cilantro (coriander) has been shown to be a very efficient heavy metal chelator-- it binds to heavy metals and eliminates them through the kidneys.

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