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Iraq chemical weapons too old to use: US intelligence officials
AFP via Yahoo ^
| 6/22/06
| Jim Mannion
Posted on 06/22/2006 12:50:39 PM PDT by Enchante
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Unnamed intel officials trying to put down the story. Are they fully informed and providing accurate info or is this the "revenge of the Clintonistas"??? Even if what this article reports is accurate, there is much more that needs to be understood about this issue and it's far from over.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:50:42 PM PDT
by
Enchante
To: Enchante
More backstabbing by the CIA.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:52:17 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Memo to GOP: Don't ask me for any more money until you secure our Southern border.)
To: Enchante
They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:52:33 PM PDT
by
moose2004
(You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
To: Enchante
The report which was declassified says that the weapons pose a threat to the region.
And the reporter really didn't do their homework so freeper jveritas has done it for him.
UNSCOM says that WMD in canisters is still viable and danger even beyond 12 years of storage.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653841/posts
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:53:30 PM PDT
by
Peach
(Iraq/AlQaeda relationship http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/2006/06/strategic-relationship-between.)
To: Enchante
This question was just asked of Rummy...whether these kinds of weapons could harm our troops when/if found in Iraq.
Rummy said, with Gen. Casey next to him...that YES, our troops would be in danger from them.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:53:30 PM PDT
by
Txsleuth
To: moose2004
"They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?"
I would strongly suspect YES, though I certainly don't know. The article does refer to such unspecified modifications that could still make them dangerous.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:54:10 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(General Hayden: I've Never Taken a Domestic Flight That Landed in Waziristan!)
To: Peach
12 years. Wow.
Listening now to Rumsfeld and Casey giving a news conf...on FOX now FYI
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:54:50 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: Enchante
AP and 'unnamed sources' are pretty much the same
story tellers
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:55:43 PM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: Txsleuth; Peach
Ahhh, so we have yet another case of mindless MSM drones and their 'anonymous' sources desperately trying to spin a major story to protect the depraved libs. How enlightening.
Thanks to jveritas and everyone here working for actual knowledge as opposed to MSM/lib fantasies on these issues.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:56:05 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(General Hayden: I've Never Taken a Domestic Flight That Landed in Waziristan!)
To: Enchante
WTF?? Too old to use? We are destroying stockpiles that go back to WWII and WWI today.. while there potentcy may not be what it once was... I guranatee you, you don't want to be around when a WWI mustard gas shell goes off.
To: Enchante
Old or not, I'm glad they are out of potential circulation.
GE
no evidence that any element of the
Iraqi insurgency has possession of chemical weapons
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:56:40 PM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: Enchante
First, we're told there's no WMDs.
Then, it's those that were found out in the desert were nothing more than snow cone trucks and agricultural fertilizers.
Today, the WMDs recently found are old and not of any significance despite the fact we've spend untold millions of taxpayer dollars and man hours between investigators and military.
Next, they'll tell us Saddam was a good guy... oh, never mind, they've played that card already.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:56:45 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Enchante
We all should expect this.
They ignore historic facts. As someone else posted earlier, mustard gas canisters from WWI are still being found and in some instances killing people. These people are added to the casualty list of WWI.
Pueblo Colorado chemical weapons depot as still being cleaned up as the munitions there, some as old as 60 years, are still viable.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:56:49 PM PDT
by
technomage
(NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)
To: Enchante
unbelievable. Backstabbers in our own government.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:57:09 PM PDT
by
balch3
To: Enchante
It makes exactly zero difference at all if they had degraded. We had no way to know beforehand, due to Saddaam's kicking out the inspectors, that every chemical round was not brand spanking new and lethal.
They were there, they are there and we found them. That is all that matters
To: moose2004
Yes, But they are not " weapons of MASS destruction".
They are not nukes, or anthrax, or huge bombs.
It is a a bit like saving fire works from 10 years back.
They can still burn you, but may not blow your hand off.
I find this to be election year wanna be politics.
To: Enchante
But the intelligence officials, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the weapons were too degraded to have posed a threat to US forces in March 2003. Intelligent officials could be democrat lawmakers. Oops, that's a contradiction in terms isn't it?
To: moose2004
Question is, "Would this guy want 10-15 of them in his living room?" As an Officer in the Chemical Corp, I took basic at Ft McClelland/Ft Rucker (God bless the WACS) Ala and were constantly warned to not sit on the groud in certain places as you'd get blisters from their WW1 mustard gas testing.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:59:01 PM PDT
by
edzuk
To: Enchante
The Sarin found was still viable I believe.
The point is.. Saddam lied about destroying WMD's.. Something he wasn't allowed to do without UN supervision.
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posted on
06/22/2006 12:59:02 PM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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