Monday, March 02, 2009

Least Comprehensible Headline

Mullen: Iran has fissile materials for bomb

Fissile?

To rhyme with missile?

Is that a missile that is fissionable missionable?

Is it a "fizz"?

No, it seems to be bad English.

Great, now we have Army generals trying to talk French.

I know Iranians use French a lot but we need a bit more backbone, unlike that which the French provide little example of.

==============================

UPDATE

Oh, oh.

Not only is the English incomprehensible, their raw intelligence data is as well:

Iran is not close to having a nuclear weapon, which gives the United States and others time to try to persuade Tehran to abandon its suspected atomic arms program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.

"They're not close to a stockpile, they're not close to a weapon at this point, and so there is some time," Gates said on NBC television's "Meet The Press."

Gates' comments followed a televised interview with Adm. Mike Mullen, head of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told CNN's "State of the Union" that he believed Iran has enough fissile material to make a nuclear bomb.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Actually, that is a pretty common word for nuclear material used in a fision process.

The raw data says the have all the parts they need, but don't know how to but the pieces together where it will actually work.