WMDs in Iraq

NorthShoreJournal ^ | 9/22/07

[enough_idiocy]

July 13-16: The 329th Chemical Platoon worked in conjunction with Marines from Multi-National Force-West and Soldiers from Multi-National Division-Center to secure approxomately 40,000 gallons of nitric acid that was found in a cache in Fallujah, Iraq, for disposal. The 329th Chemical Platoon is support reserve unit for Task Force Phantom, Multi-National Corps-Iraq. HQ is Winter Park, Florida. (U.S. Army/Spc. Fernando Gonzalez)

[enough_idiocy]

See pics of guys in hazmat uniforms carrying out the nonexistent WMDs.

[vetsvette]

There are NO WMD’s in Iraq. I know because John Kerry said so.

[RasterMaster]

Like the 1.77 metric tons of WMD material....

http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/files/HE.pdf

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/07/53936299.shtml?Element_ID=53936299

Or the advanced Mig fighters that weren’t supposed to exist in Iraq....

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/f/foxbat.htm

http://images.google.com/images?q=foxbat+mig+iraq&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7HPIC&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[BenLurkin]

bump

[RasterMaster]

Or Sarin & Mustard gas that “doesn’t exist” in Iraq....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

Nope...no WMDs in Iraq!

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=10101&offer=&hidebodyad=true

http://bizzyblog.com/?p=760

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/21/santorum-wmd/

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=15918

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38213

[Old Sarge]

Big deal, can you believe what Britney like did last night OMFG?

(/sarc barely off)

[pnh102]

See pics of guys in hazmat uniforms carrying out the nonexistent WMDs.

I will never understand why Bush won't go to Iraq when these things are found and proclaim to the media that yes, there were indeed WMDs in Iraq, and here they are.

It was this lack of showmanship that allowed for the whole "Bush lied, people died" BS to become an accepted truth.

[RetiredArmy]

I’m with you. Who is going to win Dancing With The Stars? We HAVE to get our priorities in order here. No one cares about war, the troops, enemies at the gate. We have to get the beer and pizza, see the big game, watch Oprah, watch Larry King Live, check out the celb’s, wonder about whether Britney is preg again, where the freebies are coming from. Who has time for this freedom crap? /sarcasm still heavily on.

[Busywhiskers]

So what is the significance of a bunch of nitric acid in terms of WMD’s. I know a lot of conventional explosives are nitrogen based, but I’m wondering if Nitric acid is used to make nerve, blood or blister agents etc as well.

[Army Air Corps]

Yep, the March of the Celebretards takes precedence.

[Army Air Corps]

One of its uses is a component of rocket fuel.

[RasterMaster]

Nope...WMDs never moved to Syria with help of Russian “advisors”...

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/2/230625.shtml

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200602%5CSPE20060202a.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36463

http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php

No Russian convoy was bombed as they were fleeing to Syria either....

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/06/sprj.irq.russian.convoy.attacked/index.html

http://english.people.com.cn/200304/07/eng20030407_114694.shtml

[bill1952]

Liquid rocket engines.
As far as chemical warfare agents, I know of no common use for nitric acid.

[governmentstillsucks]

There are NO WMD’s in Iraq. I know because John Kerry said so.

And because George Bush has said so--facts be damned!

[BARLF]

So true

[roaddog727]

Nitric acid is a dual use precursor chemical. not necessarily a chemical weapon in and of itself - unless of course you get dunked in it or doused with it.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[Gritty]

[vetsvette]

“And because George Bush has said so—facts be damned!”

Of course, some of this is the President’s own fault. Early in the war when they started to find various caches of WMD’s the White House said that those weren’t the WMD’s they were talking about before the war. I expect that it was because they didn’t want to open up that discussion again, but it was still pretty dumb.

[UKTory]

Are you claiming nitric acid to be a weapon of mass destruction?

I mean it’s nice that this cache was found (nitric acid can be used to make IEDs), so that’s all good. But it’s not a WMD and the fact that terrorists in Iraq are using (and seemingly manufacturing) it in Iraq in 2007 has no relevance to what may or may not have been held by the Iraqi government in 2003. Claiming otherwise just invites opponents to make you look silly.