Terrorists kill 4,000 Americans, injure over 36,000

[DBoon]

August31,RockyMountainNews–
The U.S. nuclear weapons program has sickened 36,500 Americans and killed more than 4,000, the Rocky Mountain News has determined from government figures. Those numbers reflect only people who have been approved for government compensation. They include people who mined uranium, built bombs and breathed dust from bomb tests.

Many of the bomb-builders, such as those at the Rocky Flats plant near Denver, have never applied for compensation or were rejected because they could not prove their work caused their illnesses. Congressional hearings are in the works to review allegations of unfairness and delays in the program for weapons workers.

Source:http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5686694,00.html

Someone who would use an atomic bomb against a civilian population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) must be a terrorist, right?

[niyad]

1. do you hear the same screams I do when I point this out to the deluded 28%

[CJCRANE]

2. These figures

are also similar to the coalition casualties in Shrub's war of choice in Iraq.

[niyad]

3. weird coincidence

[huskerlaw]

4. I thought this was going to be an Iraq war thread

Seriously. The numbers are nearly the same. :scared:

[xchrom]

5. frightening.

[uppityperson]

6. k&r

[kineneb]

7. how many of the soldiers who "witnessed" the tests are counted?

I remember seeing the photos of soldiers out in the desert, with only goggles for protection, watching the atomic bomb tests. I have always wondered about their fate.