Nerve Gas Scare at U.N. Headquarters

ABC ^

[rikkir]

What a missed opportunity! They evacuated the building, hell all they had to do was padlock the doors and it would have been taken care of.
If they wanted to continue to have UN meetings they could find a new building in a new country.

[tobyhill]

The MSM can’t use the excuse that Saddam used it for manufacturing because where they found the chems it had no scrubber pits which would have been necessary if it was let off in the air or thousands would have died.

[penelopesire]

No kidding! I have never trusted UNMOVIC, the IAEA, the UN or the media....LOL!

[sure_fine]

“You’re right, it was found at a chemical plant in 1996 and the spin factor is in full gear.”

thats how klinton knew Sadman had them

[avacado]

Check out this CNN article on the subject and the sentence they end the article with:

“They will be taken to a U.S. facility in Maryland where previous chemical samples from Iraq’s weapons inspections were destroyed,”

Previous WMDs? Found?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/un.gas/index.html

[tobyhill]

Unfreakinbelievable! This administration needs to fight back and fight back hard.

[UKrepublican]

LOL the irony of it.

They’ve had wmd in their own god damn building all this time and not known about it.

[McGruff]

It is as I said, There are no WMDs in Iraq.



They are in N.Y. City.

[penelopesire]

LOL!! Good One!

[penelopesire]

“This administration needs to fight back and fight back hard.”

Don’t hold your breath....lol

[tobyhill]

LOL.

[b4its2late]

Did Hans Brix find them?

Prolly not:

[atomicweeder]

You can get the same thing mixing Comet and liquid dish soap.

[brothers4thID]

made me laugh out loud, thanks.

[pabianice]

How could they tell? I mean, it is the U.N.

[pabianice]

BTW, phosgene is a choking agent, not a nerve agent.

[lastchance]

Here is a good link for info on Phosgene.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/doctrine/army/mmcch/PulmAgnt.htm

Federation of American Scientists.

“...MECHANISM OF TOXICITY

Phosgene is only slightly soluble in water and aqueous solutions. However, once dissolved it rapidly hydrolyzes to form carbon dioxide and hydrochloric acid. The early-onset ocular, nasal, and central airway irritation from high concentrations of phosgene is caused by hydrochloric acid released during phosgene hydrolysis; however, the carbonyl group (C=O) readily participates in acylation reactions with amino (-NH2), hydroxyl (-OH), or sulfhydryl (-SH) groups and these reactions account for the major pathophysiological effects of phosgene. These acylations occur at alveolar- capillary membranes and lead to leakage of fluid from those capillaries into the interstitial portions of the lung. This effect is from direct contact of phosgene with these membranes; phosgene exposure by other routes, e.g., by intravenous administration, does not cause this damage.

Phosgene-induced leakage of fluid from capillaries into the pulmonary interstitium is normally opposed by lymphatic drainage from the parenchyma, but as the fluid leakage increases, normal drainage mechanisms become progressively overwhelmed. After a 20 minute to 24-hour long asymptomatic or latent period, fluid eventually reaches alveoli and peripheral airways, leading to increasingly severe dyspnea and clinically evident pulmonary edema.”

[TeleStraightShooter]

For what it's worth - According to Denis Winter (Death's Men, 1978), a fatal dose of phosgene eventually led to "shallow breathing and retching, pulse up to 120, an ashen face and the discharge of four pints (2 liters) of yellow liquid from the lungs each hour for the 48 of the drowning spasms."

[trooprally]

You forgot Yellow Cake

[Mr] T

[George W. Bush]

Finally, we found Saddam's WMD. At the United Nations.

This is just too rich.

I don't suppose we get to bomb and invade and destroy the United Nations and kill everyone in that foul lair. What a shame.

Maybe we need to send Hans Blix to inspect the United Nations.