Posted on 11/14/2004 8:44:48 PM PST by waterman478
As many as 1,600 insurgents in Fallujah were killed so rapidly that streets were littered with 'alarming' number of bodies...(no article linked yet)
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
What do they do with all those bodies?
We set up squads of Marines and wait. If an "insurgent" who is covering their face and carrying a gun comes to check it out, we shoot them.
From: http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/design.htm
"Enhanced Radiation Weapons
An enhanced radiation (ER) weapon, by special design techniques, has an output in which neutrons and x-rays are made to constitute a substantial portion of the total energy released. For example, a standard fission weapon's total energy output would be partitioned as follows: 50% as blast; 35% as thermal energy; and 15% as nuclear radiation. An ER weapon's total energy would be partitioned as follows: 30% as blast; 20% as thermal; and 50% as nuclear radiation. Thus, a 3-kiloton ER weapon will produce the nuclear radiation of a 10-kiloton fission weapon and the blast and thermal radiation of a 1-kiloton fission device. However, the energy distribution percentages of nuclear weapons are a function of yield."
Though I'm not really crazy about this quick linked article and I've seen much more comprehensive discussions, this is the bottom line. There is quite a bit to be desired in further discussion, but I'm not going to get involved in this one much more on the present thread, but the long and short of this is that these EHRs are highly destructive to cities and other targets and harm not only biological tissue. This severly limits their military/ political/ tactical usefulness, and in fact, my lengthy research into this seems to indicate that the US has decided that EHRs introduce more problems into the battlefield situation than those they solve.
They are major nuclear weapons and are highly destructive on their own part. The description in britannica.com (which you didn't accredit) is lacking in its failure to point out that very pertinent fact.
Ya can't kill too many bad guys ~ Bump!
General 'Black Jack' Pershing vs. Muslim Terrorists
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42:1 Kill Ratio. Wow. FEAR US, EVILDOERS!
Thank you for clarifyng me about the neutron bomb.
I like that!
Touche'....:)
You're welcome. I trust you also saw posts 139 and 162 this thread.
"Can you imagine what they would do to this guy?"
Let's buy him a plane ticket and find out....:))
[I think he's a "perfect" fool]
Three thousand "insurgents" were in Fallujah. We killed 500 insurgents using air power over the last three months. We kill 1600 of the insurgents and take 500 of them prisoner with this ground assault. Than's about 2,600 of them total out of a roughly estimated 3,000.
To me, "what kind of example" we are teaching them is as clear springtime snot.
Some video ...
Got anymore that was great. Where did it come from originally ?
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Right!!!
Soylent Green
Some serious get some action for our unstoppable fighting men!
I've wanted to see this kind of action since 9/11. These are the scum of the earth who are just as vile as the worst sociopaths produced in Germany and Japan during WWII.
All is right in the world when the righteous kill these vermin by the bushel load!
Gentleman, you are liberty's best friend!
OOORAH!! Devil Dogs!
Blogger needs an education on the nature of evil. He's blind.
That was incredible!
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