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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] Because it isn't feasible, Tex. You simply can't stuff things down an oil well like you can a dead body down the 20 foot deep 5 feet in diameter hand dug well in gramma's back yard. Very few things will fit and even if they would, there is already stuff in there and, in those oil fields, almost guaranteed to be under high pressure. Like it was in Kuwait, as demonstrated by the fires during the Gulf War, if you open one of those wells, stuff comes out and it comes out with great force. And assuming you tried to inject some sort of gas into the well, even one that doesn't have it's own positive pressure, the stuff might fill the hole but it can't disappear into the rock. The wells casing blocks it if there is any porous strata above the bottom and the oil bearing stratum at the bottom is already full of oil and gas. So you are limited to the volume of the inside diameter of the casing. Let's look at the volume available in an oil well. With 3.14 approximating pi and the inner radius of the hole being 3 inches (=0.25 feet), the area of a cross section of the inside of the well is pi times the radius squared or, 3.14 x (0.25ft) x (0.25) = 0.196 sqft, approximately, and for convenience, we'll round that off to 0.2 sqft foot cross section of the well.. So, if the well is 1000 feet deep, there are approximately 200 cubic feet of space in it; for a 2000 foot deep well, approximately 400 cubic feet, for a 3000 foot deep well, approximately 600 cubic feet, and so on. Now, there are about 7.5 gallon per cubic foot, so [(200cuft) (7.5gal/cuft] = 1500 gallons, approximately in 1000 feet of oil well.. I have no figures for the depths of the Iraq oil fields, but it probably isn't much different from those in Kuwait, where the depth of the deepest wells are reported to be about 8 - 9 thousand feet (see http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/declassdocs/cia/19960531/cia_62717_62080_01.html). Using the largest of those, we get that (9000ft)(1500gal/1000ft) = 13500gallons per Iraqi oil well. approximately. And that is assuming the space in the well contains nothing to begin with, which means a dry hole.. I don't remember the actual figure Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice, etc. were claiming that Saddam had on store at the time of the invasion, but it was many many tens of thousands of cubic feet of biological and chemical weapons. Now, assuming you could find enough oil wells not under a huge pressures, so that you could pour or force those things into it, how long would it take how many people to pour how many tens of thousands of gallons of them into the oil wells? We are not talking days or even weeks and we are not talking a miner effort to do it. How long does it take to pick out enough of the wells that can be filled with bio-weapons and chemical weapons and whatever? We'd need to gather and find a way to transport the stuff to the wells, something that isn't going to be done by just any average Iraqi you can find, because of the special care needed to handle this stuff. Once at the well, you have to uncap the well and afterward you have to recap it. Then. since we know there was no evidence of spillage of the stuff or any other of the activities of pouring it in the wells found after the invasion, it all had to be cleaned up and the evidence removed. Could that be done in days? Weeks? He didn't have weeks. It simply isn't reasonable to assume Saddam hid all those thousands of gallons of poison gas, biological weapons, and nuclear devises we were assured he had in oil wells and it isn't reasonable to assume that the possibility hasn't had sufficient consideration. By now, some of that nerve gas, some of that biological weaponry, or some other liquid or gaseous stuff he had hidden in the oil wells would have escaped or been pumped out and been discovered or some one of the large force of people it took to do it would have taken the rewards offered for information or otherwise let the cat out of the bag and told the story and we'd know.. I'm sorry, but the notion that Saddam had all the nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and biological weapons the Administration assured us he did isn't reasonable. The only proper conclusion is that the Administration sold us a bill of goods. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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