Iraqi insurgency has possession of chemical weapons
More backstabbing by the CIA.
They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?
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
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.
AP and 'unnamed sources' are pretty much the same
story tellers
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.
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.
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.
unbelievable. Backstabbers in our own government.
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
Intelligent officials could be democrat lawmakers. Oops, that's a contradiction in terms isn't it?
Hmm, maybe they don't want the bad guys to know the stuff is still good and don't want them using it. Or, this is another group of Clinto-Punks stirring up things against the administration. If that's the case I suggest they start with the first of the 500 weapons and one by one open them up an stick their heads in them.
Good! So this means that all those stockpiles the military wants to burn can be gotten rid of next week right????
Guess all those law suits can be dropped as well, eh?
;-)
The argument used so freely by the anti-war types, that Bush went to war for the "wrong reasons", or that "Bush lied", has been pretty largely blown out of the water. Saddam HAD'EM! And Rick Santorum was perfectly right in revealing the existence of this report, and publicizing parts of it (some parts are still classified).
Thank you for posting this article.
"But the intelligence officials, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, "
TRANSLATION: The AP reporter has a sock puppet.
I was watching Imus this morning and he had a military guy on who said he found a little-publicized report that traces of sarin were found in the Tigis River by our troops.
I had never heard of this and this guy is certainly no fan of the president so I was surprised when he said this.
Anyone else hear this?
Jane