Posted on 06/25/2006 10:41:00 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
Anniston is a vivid reminder that the weapons of mass destruction from the 20th century were a lot easier to make than they are to destroy.
Also, I am not sure of the specific munitions found in Iraq. I would think if they were the binary type of shells, the chemicals are kept separate and would not be subjected to the same type of degredation over time. Storage and handling were one of the reasons they were designed that way.
Republicans and patriotic Americans are fighting a war on terror. The Democrats are fighting a war to regain power against Republicans.
Nothing is too dirty in the democrats war.
I heard Congressman Curt Weldon on Michael Savage this week. He said that most of Saddam's WMD were smuggled to Syria with the help of Russia. He also said Santorum is trying to declassify secret reports that show four storage sites for WMD in Iraq. Investigators confirmed WMD had been (or are currently) hidden there. But Rumsfeld ordered the weapons investigators out of the country. In the meantime, the White House has classified all reports about Iraqi WMD. Read About 150 News Reports Here
What the heck is going on in D.C.? Is the White House concerned about the truth coming out? Russia most certainly is not our friend. By hiding Iraq's WMD in Syria, Putin sought to cause President Bush great political harm. It is time to call a spade a spade. Americans need to wake up from sleeping in front of their television sets. Time to smell the coffee. The world is a very dangerous place.
Saddam stopped making the old gas shells before 1991 ( 1st Gulf War )...
Iraq had started implementing the binary type of shell you refer to by then..
During Desert Storm, millions of tons of "pesticide" were discovered, and a lot was simply dumped into the Euphrates river, before Allied troops got to it..
Most Nerve Gas Agents are simply pesticide.. ( Chemical 1 ) and a chemical "booster" ( chemical 2 ) which make up the ingredients in a binary shell..
Because pesticide has an agricultural use, the media and the left discounted it's existence as proof of WMD's..
The Bush gov let them get away with it..
God only knows why..
Every drop of that pesticide was Nerve Agent in my opinion..
Saddam sure as H**l wasn't using it to feed his people..
Well, we do know that keeping the lid on this story does NOT help the president politically, so the reason must be to protect national security. I find it refreshing that someone in D.C. is putting national security above his own political reputation, and I do not need to know the details if that information would somehow help our enemies.
I wonder how the naysayers can say that the "old" wmds are not dangerous simply because they're slightly older than weapons manufactured a few years later constituting a new wmd program. There is no info on the date of the manufacture of the discovered weapons. But we do know that degraded means not at one hundred percent potency. But since mustard gas degrades slowly, a slightly degraded canister can be very lethal ...as farmers in Europe are still finding out. More info is needed, but new or old, these are wmds made by Hussein.
Excellent point. The dismissers of these findings fail to realize that many Americans, like a few of my lib friends, have been made to believe that Saddam had absolutely no wmds whatsoever. These findings destroy that argument. Now the naysayers are left with the "they're not dangerous" argument. How do they know they're not dangerous? Why don't they open up a mustard gas canister and show us? How about we correctly mix one of the sarin gas projectiles and explode it in room filled with the naysayers? I'm willing to bet that they'd scatter pretty quickly.
Thanks for the links. The fact of the matter is that we have discovered many of Hussein's wmds that he was supposed to have turned over. Terrorists unwittingly or knowlingly tried to use them on our troops. And all we get from Big Media is a collective yawn. People who claim that the sarin gas projectiles found recently are harmless should be willing to undergo a simple experiment: we put them in a room, and explode one of those "harmless" properly mixed sarin gas projectiles in the room. I'm sure they'll agree to the experiment...especially Keith Olbermann (smirk).
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