Re: the Ammo dump explosion in Iraq

[NMDemDist2]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I saw one go up too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

In that incident, in addition to the ammo in the dump cooking off all night, four 50,000-gallon avgas tanks blew. We thought the first one was a nuke. Mushroom cloud & everything. By the time the second went, an hour or so later, we had been told what they were.

[NMDemDist2]

2. thanks Jack. helps to have eye witnesses debunk some of the

awfulizing

and thanks for your service

[Blackthorn]

3. I'd just like to point out that just because an ammo dump blowing in Nam didn't kill anyone

...DOES NOT mean that the ammo dump blowing up Baghdad did the same. I think there's a liklihood of casualties, but until we get a decent report, we don't know.

[NMDemDist2]

4. it's standard operating procedure to build the ammo dumps like that

did you not read my link?

[Blackthorn]

5. Yes I did.

You can't argue that simply because bases are built in a certain way, that guarantees no casualties.

[The Wielding Truth]

6. Greatest thread-Seymour Hersh looking into /Ammo Dump

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[NMDemDist2]

7. that's the thread my OP is on n/t