The 150 Million dollar failure!!!!!!

You know during the recent white House Correspondence Dinner President Obama made a joke that Sheldon Adelson spent 100 million dollars of his own money to defeat Obama. I actually thought Obama was joking or had ballooned the amount, but doing some research several sources says that both privately and publicly Sheldon Adelson actually spent 150 MILLION dollars. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2223589.html http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...ng-150-million

Now granted Mr.Adelsen is a billionaire and spent his own money- but I wonder if 150 million dollars could have been spent much better-
I mean 150 million could have been used to buy Whirlway, COG, IFFORD, Lexus Lover, IAINTLIEN, LovingKayla, I B Hankering and rest of that gang a one way ticket out of this country.

Obama thinks in billions of dollars, so pissing away a hundred million is chump change;

Look how Obama pissed away $3.4 billion on Pigford (and counting) !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us...wanted=5&_r=1&


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ves-On-Pigford

Obama thinks in billions of dollars, so pissing away a hundred million is chump change;

Look how Obama pissed away $3.4 billion on Pigford (and counting) !!!!!!!!!!!! Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Now I bet if some Billionaire was spending 150 million to make sure Romney would lose you would be going ape shit. 3. billion is small compared to the trillion dollars Bush spent on an unfunded war and if you add the lives that were lost in that useless and senseless war you couldn't put a price on that tag.

You mean the war that almost every Democrat voted for ?

To Obama; pissing away billions of other people's money isn't a moral issue................

You mean the war that almost every Democrat voted for ? Originally Posted by Whirlaway

NOT THE POTUS!!!!!! And most of those who voted cast their vote based on lies- remember WMD's???

shoving a "smoking gun" aka "mushroom cloud" down the throats of a country in panic on the heels of 911 should be an offense deserving 25-life in prison. Even though there no official war declared, Congress voted the way the general public expected them to vote, and do their best to stop what they were told was about to happen by the "LEADERS ?" of the country.

NOT THE POTUS!!!!!! And most of those who voted cast their vote based on lies- remember WMD's??? Originally Posted by wellendowed1911

Yeh, we are all definitely remembering them now, since those very ones are what ole Assad is using on his people now.

Remember the satellite pictures of those trucks hauling across the border just before the Iraq Invasion. All of that got pushed under the rug.

Another failure by our major news outlets for not following up. Of course, since ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, etc, were all taking their talking points from The Democrat National Committee, why would they bother?

Yeh, we are all definitely remembering them now, since those very ones are what ole Assad is using on his people now.

Remember the satellite pictures of those trucks hauling across the border just before the Iraq Invasion. All of that got pushed under the rug.

Another failure by our major news outlets for not following up. Of course, since ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, etc, were all taking their talking points from The Democrat National Committee, why would they bother? Originally Posted by Jackie S

you may want to find out (exactly) what the shelf life of Sarin gas is before you go out on a limb and say its the same shit that was in Iraq

just sayin

You mean the "lies" perpetuated by Clinton (bill and hillary), Al Gore, John Kerry, et al ?

If the WMDs claim qualifies as a lie in your low bar standards; then there is no denying that Obama is the biggest liar to every occupy the white house............

You mean the "lies" perpetuated by Clinton (bill and hillary), Al Gore, John Kerry, et al ?

If the WMDs claim qualifies as a lie in your low bar standards; then there is no denying that Obama is the biggest liar to every occupy the white house............ Originally Posted by Whirlaway

if the aforementioned were the people sitting in the presidential office and took us to war, then yes.

you may want to find out (exactly) what the shelf life of Sarin gas is before you go out on a limb and say its the same shit that was in Iraq

just sayin Originally Posted by CJ7

Sarin by itself lasts on the order of weeks.

But sarin shells are often implemented as a binary chemical agent in which the 2 precursor chemicals are stored separately within the shell. They mix only at the time the shell is fired. In that case, the shelf life may be many years or decades.

Sarin by itself lasts on the order of weeks.

But sarin shells are often implemented as a binary chemical agent in which the 2 precursor chemicals are stored separately within the shell. They mix only at the time the shell is fired. In that case, the shelf life may be many years or decades. Originally Posted by ExNYer

if, in fact , the mix is as close to pure as it can possibly be, otherwise its not

if, in fact , the mix is as close to pure as it can possibly be, otherwise its not Originally Posted by CJ7

The purity of the mix doesn't matter in a binary agent. That's why they are kept separate.

The impurities only affect the shelf life of Sarin AFTER it has been formed by mixing the two agents. Since that occurs when the shell is fired, the sarin only has to last for a matter of seconds.

Here is a link:

http://www.fas.org/irp/gulf/cia/960715/72569.htm

Key quote:
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IN 1989 THE IRAQIS DESTROYED 40 OR MORE TONS OF SARIN THAT HAD DECOMPOSED.

EFFORTS TO LENGTHEN SHELF LIFE

IRAQ HAS TRIED TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM IN TWO WAYS. FIRST, IT ATTEMPTED, WITH FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, TO IMPROVE THE SHELF-LIFE OF ITS UNITARY SARIN BY INCREASING, THE PURITY OF THE PRECURSOR AND INTERMEDIATE CHEMICALS AND-REFINING PRODUCTION PROCESSES.

SECOND, IT BEGAN TO DEVELOP BINARY CHEMICAL WEAPONS. IN A BINARY MUNITION, THE TWO PRECURSOR CHEMICALS ARE STORED SEPARATELY AND ONLY MIXED TO FORM THE CHEMICAL AGENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE OR WHEN THE ROUND IS IN FLIGHT. THUS, THE SHELF LIFE OF THE AGENT BECOMES IRRELEVANT; MOREOVER, THE MUNITION IS SAFER TO HANDLE AND STORE. BY 1990 IRAQ HAD SUCCESSFULLY TESTED 155-MM ARTILLERY SHELLS AND OTHER BINARY MUNITIONS AND LAUNCHED A BALLISTIC MISSILE WITH A BINARY WARHEAD AS WELL. CIA HOLDS THAT THE STOCKS OF SARIN MAY REMAIN VIABLE WELL BEYOND MARCH. CIA ANALYSTS BELIEVE THAT THE SHELF LIFE PROBLEM WAS ONLY TEMPORARY AND THAT THE IRAQIS CAN NOW PRODUCE UNITARY AGENTS OF SUFFICIENT QUALITY BY ADDING A STABILIZER OR IMPROVING THE PRODUCTION PROCESS.

CIA ALSO BELIEVES THAT A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF IRAQ'S NERVE AGENT STOCKPILE NOW CONSISTS OF BINARY CHEMICAL WEAPONS WHICH WOULD NOT BE SUBJECT TO DEGRADATION.
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the 40 some odd tons of sarin Iraq destroyed in the early 90's was classified as degraded by our own chemists, and described as non lethal ... the most sophisticated equipment the world had to offer could find no new evidence of sarin being made anywhere in the country, not even on a single grain of sand ... after that, and up until we insisted on sarting some shit with saddam, nothing, nada.

so at best the sarin (if shipped to any other location) was 20 years degraded and still as non lethal as it was 10 years prior