[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Really excellent article. I think the chemicals are pretty well described above.

I remember posting a rather innocent article about Springtime in Baghdad and an owner of a nursery made the innocent statement that his nursery plants were not doing well becuse he couldn't afford any pesticides.

IRAQ: It’s Springtime in Baghdad

That was as our invading forces kept coming across all the "pesticides" in 55 gallon barrels , that the lefties were saying were nothing, only agriculture chemicals.

[reformedliberal]

There were related observations, passed over consistently, about the poor state of Iraqi grain farming. It was blamed on a shortage of pesticide and herbicide.

This has been my preferred theory of the WMDs from the beginning. The presence of those who have a political agenda against the POTUS in the most sensitive departments of our country is terrifying.

But, we won WWII, even if there were a passel of Soviet moles in the government at the highest levels (see *Treason*).

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the link! That's the thread I was thinking of when I saw this thread. The one thing that I remembered was this from your link

"As for the red sand that covers Baghdad when the seasonal khamasin winds blow, he said it does the plants no harm. “In fact, it protects them from insects, because we can’t afford to buy the pesticides or the proper soil.”

It seems, from this excerpt, they don't even NEED pesticides. So, why did they have so much of the stuff? One of life's great mysteries, I guess. ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

Did you read Anti-Bubba182's link in #10? Check this out.

"Ah, we meant to say no connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Well, in that case, how do you explain the conviction, shared by Clarke and Benjamin and Simon, that Iraq was behind Bin Laden's deadly operation in Sudan? The Age of Sacred Terror justifies the Clinton strike on Khartoum on the grounds that "Iraqi weapons-scientists" were linked to Bin Laden's factory and that the suggestive chemical EMPTA, detected at the site, was used only by Iraq to make VX nerve gas. At the time, Clarke defended the bombing in almost the same words, telling the press that he was "sure" that "intelligence existed linking bin Laden to Al Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan." The U.N. arms inspector upon whom all three relied at the time, for corroborating evidence implicating Saddam, was a man who has since become famous: David Kay."

He's definately in the Hans Blix category.