Question RE: "we should just nuke 'em"

[cheezus]

In addition to all of the security problems that would create, what would happen to the oil supply? Would it become radioactive? Could we still use it?

[RobertSeattle]

1. I doubt it - Most crude oil is deep underground

So I'm sure Halliburton would find a way!

I think the most effective nuke is detonated several hundred feet above the ground so the blast is most effective against ground targets without a nasty crater that would generate a huge amount of radioactive dust.

[Goldmund]

2. The oil is underneath the ground

So we could probably use it for the week or two before we all get vaporized in a global nuclear conflict.

[quinnox]

3. couldn't get to the oil

the radiation would kill first, unless robots were used maybe.

[Qanisqineq]

4. callers to Mancow in the Morning

this morning were saying "just nuke 'em all" over and over again. And some of 'em weren't just talking about Iraq, but all Muslims.
:puke:

[arcane1]

7. yet the war was (for a while) about stopping evil WMD's

:eyes:


ever lose faith in the American public..? Constantly?

I sure as hell do

were any of those people calling from the front lines? Probably all from their living rooms...

losers

[Qanisqineq]

9. lose faith?

after listening this morning (I only expose myself to that punishment about once a week), I felt like moving to another country. Too bad Mancow can't at least dispense all the facts, he loves to whip them up into a frenzy with his partial truths.

WMD's? I thought it was about liberation?? :eyes:

[arcane1]

11. my favorite excuse

was that he invaded Iran :crazy:

[demnan]

5. What insanity is this?

If we did this the Iranians would make sure that Israel was toast.

[rman]

6. By all means let's not mention all the people problems that would create

Would people become radioactive? Could they still live?

[Bandit]

8. Kind of makes one proud to be an American

Let's kill millions of innocents because one American was killed horribly. That's the ticket. We will really stand tall in the eyes of the world.

[LoneStarLiberal]

10. Usable But Very, Very, Very Expensive

The oil supply itself wouldn't be radioactive, though irradiating it wouldn't be that difficult (injection of radioactive waste into the oil tables).

Extracting it in a heavily-irradiated environment is another story, though. That would be super-expensive (try oil around $100 a barrel or so) and we'd have to rebuild nearly all the infrastructure to extract and transport the oil.

So maybe it would be more like oil @ $150 a barrel.

[arcane1]

12. luckily for PNAC, there is an entire nation of Iraq that is ripe...

for enslavement. And slaves are sub-human, so there is no moral issue regarding having them extract oil from a radioactive wasteland.

though methinks the people of Iraq will have no patience with that

[historian]

13. yep go ahead and nuke em

open the doors to using nukes and off we go. Kiss the world goodbye.
Anyway, even if there is no nuke retaliation the increase in murderous acts would eventually pale the numbers of dead in the nuclear blast.
right on freepers - dig your own graves.