Republicans - Keeping Us Safe!

UPDATE: Something I hadn't thought of earlier but that was pointed out to me by something I just read, the bomb making plans discussed below were conveniently written in Arabic! Making it all that much easier for Bin Laden and his bunch. Wow, this just keeps getting better. Can we impeach him NOW?

Some video here.

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So, I sit down on the train this morning and I read a story about how Republican politicians pressured the Whitehouse to put NUCLEAR SECRETS on the web for all to read. Let me say that a different way... Because the Republicans are desperate to find something, anything, to scare people into voting for them, they published NUCLEAR SECRETS on a web site. A site unprotected by any sort of security at all.

This was in my Chicago Tribune! A conservative newspaper! They endorsed Bush BOTH times! I've included a few choice comments from the article below but feel free to click the MORE HERE link below for the entire story.

Those Republicans... Putting their political futures ahead of our safety. HAD ENOUGH? Vote for a Democrat! Any damn Democrat will do! There is no way we can allow this level of incompetence to go unchecked!

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say present a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

On Thursday night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended "pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing."

Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help nations like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the U.S. ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity. One diplomat said the agency's technical experts "were shocked" at the public disclosures.

The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that the nuclear experts say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.

"For the U.S. to toss a match into this flammable area is very irresponsible," said A. Bryan Siebert, a former director of classification at the federal Department of Energy, which runs the nation's nuclear arms program. "There's a lot of things about nuclear weapons that are secret and should remain so."

The government had received earlier warnings about the contents of the Web site. Last spring, after the site began posting old Iraqi documents about chemical weapons, United Nations arms-control officials in New York won the withdrawal of a report that gave information on how to make tabun and sarin, nerve agents that kill by causing respiratory failure.