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To: Strategerist
Actually they were. ISG report states they had missile that went beyond the range that was allowed.

Anyone else remember that some of this stuff wound up in junkyards in Europe?
11 posted on 06/02/2005 7:32:24 PM PDT by baystaterebel (F/8 and be there!)
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To: baystaterebel
Oh and before I forget.

What was with all those barrels marked "Pesticide" camouflaged in ammo dumps? Same chemicals used in the making of chemical weapons.
13 posted on 06/02/2005 7:37:59 PM PDT by baystaterebel (F/8 and be there!)
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To: baystaterebel

Here's the situation.

First; need to calm down, read the article CAREFULLY, and go back and have a historical understanding of the 1991 terms of the war ending and the various UN resolutions.

The article isn't talking about WMDs at all.

It's talking about various industrial facilities, machines, etc. that could theoretically be used to MAKE WMDs, or make things that could then be used to make WMDs.

Iraq was prohibited from posessing WMDs. There were some things that are basically only used for making WMDs that it was prevented from having.

But there was a lot of equipment and industrial sites they were legally permitted to have as long as they had been regularly inspected by the UN; on the premise that the goal wasn't to shut down the Iraqi economy; it's impossible to have even a semi-functioning modern industrial base of a normal medium sized country like Iraq without having facilities that, while they can produce non-WMDs, could also be used to make WMD materials.

What the article is stating is that SINCE the war and US control of Iraq many of these items and facilities have been looted and scattered around.


14 posted on 06/02/2005 7:38:11 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: baystaterebel

I remember the missile incident. The Iraqi engineers said they were withing the terms of the treaty. I believe it was the launching vehicle that gave it away. They were all to be destroyed but I suppose that paperwork takes a few years of kickbacks.


52 posted on 06/03/2005 1:50:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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