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2003-04-08 Iraq

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Posted by Bent Pyramid 2003-04-08 04:47 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's hold back on ululating and the distribution of candy to children until we're sure we hit them...

Posted by Brian 2003-04-08 07:08:47|| 2003-04-08 07:08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Earlier Monday, the military was led to a site in a city near Baghdad where suspicious chemical compounds were stored, but subsequent tests proved negative, military sources told Reuters.

Even though the stuff discovered is supposedly pesticides, I wonder why it was stored in a military looking depot. Even if it isn't accepted as a Chemical Weapon, its effects on people are so equivalent, that one wonders if Saddam and Company went on a search for suitable, POTENTIALLY dual-use chemicals. After all, Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis in the concentration camps, was originally marketed as an effective verim killer and disinfectant, no?

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-08 07:10:57|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-04-08 07:10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps commercially available pesticides can be chemically transformed into nerve agents? I'd have to bone up on my chemistry to be sure. That way they wouldn't obviously be buying precursor chemicals.

Posted by Bent Pyramid 2003-04-08 07:16:41|| 2003-04-08 07:16:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Many commercially available pesticides work in the same manner as nerve agents, but are chemically/physically tailored to kill pests (non-human) better than they kill people. Vice-versa for nerve agents. In a pinch, these pesticides can be used as never agents to kill people. The antidotes for accidental nerve-agent like pesticide intoxication (atropine, pralidoxime or 2-PAM) are the same as those used by the military for nerve gas exposure.

Posted by Tresho 2003-04-08 08:42:09|| 2003-04-08 08:42:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Is Info Man scheduled for his press conference today? I'm interested on how he tries to spin this thing. Or has even he given up?

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-08 09:19:23|| 2003-04-08 09:19:23|| Front Page Top

#6 If you read the fine print on the pesticide bottles at your local garden store, it'll scare the hell out of you. The symptoms of exposure are exactly those of the nerve agents taught in the NBC training classes I received.

Posted by Steve 2003-04-08 09:21:03|| 2003-04-08 09:21:03|| Front Page Top

#7 How come if one of these barrels of pesticides were stored next to a day-care center here in North American, the Lefty-Greens would be screaming murder, WMD, the end of the world? Bet they'll scream about this now? No.

Posted by Don 2003-04-08 09:28:23|| 2003-04-08 09:28:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it true that, in a gesture of fence-mending, Villepan offered us a sample of Saddam's DNA taken from Jacques Chirac's lips?

Posted by tbn 2003-04-08 17:08:36|| 2003-04-08 17:08:36|| Front Page Top

#9 One report I heard said the chemicals were found one block away from a terrorist training camp. Pesticides were found inside the camp as well.

Posted by Jon 2003-04-08 17:57:06|| 2003-04-08 17:57:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe it was for the roaches? that's why the camps were empty

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-08 19:27:16|| 2003-04-08 19:27:16|| Front Page Top

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