Iraqi security forces rely on magic to [not] detect bombs

Ghoulish Delight · 11-05-2009, 11:56 AM

Apparently Iraqi security forces have put in heavy use at checkpoints devices that amount to divining rods. story here.

The bomb that killed 155 people last week would have had to go through one such checkpoint. Would those 155 people been saved if the security forces didn't believe in magic? Do people still want to argue that pseudoscience and superstition don't hurt anyone?

scaeagles · 11-05-2009, 02:01 PM

Seems to me like some Iraqi higher ups are getting kickbacks from the company the manufactures them.

BarTopDancer · 11-05-2009, 02:20 PM

Haliburton?

Moonliner · 11-05-2009, 02:50 PM

I say we load up 9 crates with high explosives and one without. Then ask the president of the company that makes the wands to select which one he would like to sit on as we set them off.

Ghoulish Delight · 11-05-2009, 02:54 PM

He's probably had a drink of some water that had a bomb in it once and has since been diluted 1 million times, so he'd be immune to high explosives anyway.

Moonliner · 11-05-2009, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

He's probably had a drink of some water that had a bomb in it once and has since been diluted 1 million times, so he'd be immune to high explosives anyway.

Into the sack you go!

€uroMeinke · 11-05-2009, 08:50 PM

But what if it worked?

scaeagles · 11-06-2009, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Haliburton?

According to the article it is a British Company called AtSC Ltd.

Moonliner · 11-06-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

According to the article it is a British Company called AtSC Ltd.

This company is killing our service members and they have a website. I wonder if their corporate PC's are on the same network. Hummm..

11-05-2009, 11:56 AM	#1
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Iraqi security forces rely on magic to [not] detect bombs Apparently Iraqi security forces have put in heavy use at checkpoints devices that amount to divining rods. story here. The bomb that killed 155 people last week would have had to go through one such checkpoint. Would those 155 people been saved if the security forces didn't believe in magic? Do people still want to argue that pseudoscience and superstition don't hurt anyone? __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Seems to me like some Iraqi higher ups are getting kickbacks from the company the manufactures them.
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Moonliner 8/30/14 - Disneyland -10k or Bust. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 9,022	I say we load up 9 crates with high explosives and one without. Then ask the president of the company that makes the wands to select which one he would like to sit on as we set them off. __________________ - Taking it one step at a time.
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	He's probably had a drink of some water that had a bomb in it once and has since been diluted 1 million times, so he'd be immune to high explosives anyway. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	But what if it worked? __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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