On another thread FReeper nolongerademocrat posted:
"If the stuff I’ve been reading about that dispersant they’ve been using (NALCO)is true - those people need to get the hell out of there and quick."
So with that, I will wander into some chilling speculation.
You all remember when Saddam Hussein gassed and murdered thousands of Kurds? Well, I wonder if our own Hussein is going to accomplish the same, albeit more slowly. Now I don't have a doctorate in energy, or a pulitzer for journalism, but I can ask what these people aren't asking and wonder - is it possible that the dispersants that are being put into the gulf are so toxic that in time, they might cause tens of millions of Americans severe health problems, or premature death? Anything Saddam Hussein can do our Hussein can do better. MMM MMM MMM
Okay, I'll bite.
EPA Orders BP To Cut Back Corexit Dispersant on Gulf Oil Slick
A cooler head prevailed Monday when Adm. Thad Allen, Coast Guard commandant in charge of the government’s response, said at a White House briefing the feds are in no position to take over the job of stopping the leak.
“I know that, to work down there right now, you need remotely operated vehicles,” he said. “You need to do very technical work at 5,000 feet. You need equipment and expertise that’s not generally within the … federal government, in terms of competency, capability or capacity.”
Our military is not advanced enough to do technical work at these depths? We have amazing military submarine technology, yet they have ZERO assets to assist with things like this?
What about getting some of those DARPA guys on the job? The tools that this man-child has at his disposal is mind-numbing! And he uses none of them!