UN Inspectors find Mustard Gas Shells

AP | 12/05/2002

[patriot5186]

That is a very interesting thought...that the globalists DON'T want to find anything to upset their dream of world government. So what will GW do if they don't find anything new?

[Rocky]

It was listed as a condiment. That's why it didn't show up on the WMD list.

[kcvl]

Mustard gas is the common name given to 1,1-thiobis(2-chloroethane), a chemical warfare agent that is believed to have first been used near Ypres in Flanders on 12th July 1917. Its chemical formula is Cl-CH2-CH2-S-CH2-CH2-Cl

Its other names include H, yprite, sulfur mustard and Kampstoff Lost, but the name mustard gas became more widely used, because the impure "agent quality" is said to have an odour similar to that of mustard, garlic or horseradish. (8) When pure, it is in fact both odourless and colourless. (6)

It was synthesised much earlier than its first reported use, by a man named Frederick Guthrie in 1860, who reacted ethylene with Cl2, and noticed the toxic effects it had on his own skin. (1) The effects of mustard gas exposure include the reddening and blistering of skin, and, if inhaled, will also cause blistering to the lining of the lungs, causing chronic impairment, or at worst, death. Exposure to high concentrations will attack the corneas of the eyes, eventually rendering the victim blind. (6)

Any area of the body which is moist is particularly susceptible to attack by mustard gas, because although it is only slightly soluble in water, which makes it difficult to wash off, hydrolysis (the splitting of a compund by water) is rapid, and occurs freely.

[ancient_geezer]

[...unless of course someone can come up with a great alternative use for mustard gas thereby making it a 'dual use' item.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/800925/posts

AZIZ: You know, the fact is that we don't have weapons of mass destruction. We don't have chemical biological and nuclear weaponry but we have equipment, which were defined as dual use. This equipment were under inspection and monitoring before the inspectors left. Of course they were used for civilian purposes and we have to declare how they were used during the last four years to UNMOVIC and to the IAEA

You know, "civilian purpose", "dual use", like population control, exterminating vermin, that sort of thing.

[freebilly]

Pretty horrific stuff. I had a great uncle who was gassed, bayonneted, and left for dead in a trench during WWI. He survived, returned home, fathered a child, then died at the age of 23 as a result of his wounds....

[Kay Soze]

Whateeve is found should be detonated over paris as it no big deal to them.

[Lion's Cub]

That is a very interesting thought...that the globalists DON'T want to find anything to upset their dream of world government. So what will GW do if they don't find anything new?

We will take out Hussein one way or another on whatever time schedule Bush has determined. The question is not whether there will be a world government, the question is: Who will control it?

Right now there is a multifaceted power struggle between Islam and the rest of the world, and between all of the major world powers (The US, The EU, Russia, China, etc.), as well as between Capitalism, Communism, and an array of Third Way Progressives. IMO, this will have to be resolved by another WW, which is what I think Bush is trying to avoid. Unfortunately, I don't believe he will be successful because he seems to be weakening, rather than strengthening, the US through his unlimited giveaways and his constant appeasement of America haters.

In fairness to Bush, it might not make any difference which road he takes; for it's God's timetable that ultimately determines where we are headed.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Of course mustard gas is a WMD. Just ask those vets from WWI who got dosed and crippled by it in the trenches (if there are any left).

[Dialup Llama]

And the inspectors have been trying sooo hard NOT to find anything. Darn it. This messes up everything for the eurocrats and the UN.