When did it become 2003 again? And why is it one letter off from the way I remember it?
are you saying america is about to invade Iran, then three months later declare “mission accomplished”, then have a military presence there for 20 years while they set up a new government which is just as corrupt as the previous one?
I’m saying ‘Ira[x] bought a bunch of uranium from Niger’ sounds awfully familiar.
Yeah, but how are they fixed for aluminum tubes?
Irax sounds like a scifi writer really should try harder with the real world parallels
Iraxis
I think that’s being optimistic, after Iraq no one is going to trust the US enough to not instantly screw over the opposition just as hard as the government they’re over throwing.
The only reason Bush had the opportunity to declare mission accomplished is because the majority of the Iraqi military gave up before/during the invasion because we cut deals with the Baathist, and then immediately turned on them.
When Bremer made being part of the Baathist party illegal, he basically outlawed anyone with a college degree in the country from joining the new government, and instantly turned the people who betrayed sadam in Iraqi army into a militant.
You say that like Bremer and Bush didn’t know that’s exactly what would happen.
Shit I’m still bitter about that decision 21 years later.
Tbf, I don’t know if Bush knew about the eventual consequences of the action before hand. Not that it absolves him of any responsibility. However, I think that was near the time where he was just hanging at Camp David for weeks on end and letting Cheney and Rumsfeld run the show.
But yeah, the Bush administration appointed Bremer to the CPA specifically to disband the Baathist party and the Iraqi military.
Maybe they could just not arm IS this time
They’ll just train and arm an entirely different group of right-wing fundamentalists.
Is it like when you concentrate orange juice by removing the water?
What they bought was yellowcake, which is uranium ore with most of the non-uranium stuff removed, so… yeah, basically.
This is distinct from enrichment, which is when you turn one isotope of uranium into another one which does fission better
Is enrichment turning one isotope into another or when you separate out the different isotopes?
I know Iran has centrifuge technology for this became Mossad sabotaged them a while back.
That wasn’t mossad, that was stuxnet from the US. It caused the centrifuges to over speed and break often with associated injury.
People hear centrifuges and they think those little table top deals you messed with in chemistry class. These are not those, these are high speed multiple story structures.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge
https://youtu.be/JNT28WKAxgs?si=ir5xKdsWYMW2_kWx
I’ll try to find the video but floating around out there somewhere there’s a video of one of the centrifuges overspeeding and essentially exploding.
Enrichment is sorting. Breeding is isotope conversion and done in a reactor. (Fast breeding reactor)
Nah they just gave it a lot of Ritalin.
Remember when Obama got them to abandon their nuclear programs and then Trump fucked it up?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Guess it’s time for some more Olympic Games
Stuxnet: is for me?
Oh man, breeder reactors! Only 90s kids will remember.