Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal (vice.com)

Jason Koebler writes: An Alabama man allowed an Apollo-era lunar rover prototype to rot in his backyard before ultimately selling it to a junkyard for scrap metal last year, according to documents acquired from NASA as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. NASA spent much of 2014 attempting to acquire the priceless artifact for display in a museum, but it was ultimately destroyed before the agency could recover it.

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Re:Leave it to idiots..

[Coren22]

The invasion of Iraq was not about oil, that is a conspiracy theory, and is frankly so asinine as to be on the same level as the moon hoaxes. Saddam would have loved to sell the US oil, we were refusing to buy his oil, so he had to find other buyers. Before the attack on Iraq, Saddam was acting like he was building a nuclear weapon, and was refusing access to the nuclear inspectors to the sites that were suspected of being bomb making sites. It was a widely held belief by many in government that he really did have WMD, not just some rumor that originated with one person.

http://politics.slashdot.org/c...

This guy goes through and cites tons of quotes of people talking about the WMD including Clinton. Are you calling Clinton a liar?

Saddam also had already previously shown that he was more than willing to use WMD of a different type when he gassed the Kurds, an ethnic group in the area that has been routinely put down by most countries in the area, including Turkey who is currently letting ISIS kill them due to their hatred of them.

Stop acting like your total lack of knowledge about world affairs gives you the right to try and call Bush a liar. Learn history, look at the events surrounding the invasion of Iraq. But then again, you were probably a child when the invasion happened.