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Sunday, May 14, 2006

Captain's Quarters: Iraq's Mobile Labs NOT Used for Making Hydrogen

I have always wondered who came up with the wacky idea that the mobile labs we found in Iraq and which were first identified as bio-labs were actually intended to make hydrogen for weather balloons.

Why make hydrogen in a mobile lab when everybody else makes it in a fixed facility – usually as a byproduct of petroleum refining - and move it around in cylinders.

Stories like this are concocted to take advantage of the technological illiteracy of the average American as well as virtually all of the members of the media.

What amazes me is that this fairy tale has been accepted by most of the people who have heard of this controversy.

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