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2007-11-16 Iraq

Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam's WMD's

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Posted by Angereper Ebbater3624 2007-11-16 08:17|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "The gist of the new evidence is this: roughly one quarter of Saddam's WMD was destroyed under UN pressure during the early to mid 1990's. Saddam sold approximately another quarter of his weapons stockpile to his Arab neighbors during the mid to late 1990's. The Russians insisted on removing another quarter in the last few months before the war. The last remaining WMD, the contents of Saddam's nuclear weapons labs, were still inside Iraq on the day when the coalition forces arrived in 2003, but were stolen from under the Americans noses and sent to Syria... This was the target of the recent Israeli air strike."
Interesting.

"Three shifts of two hundred translators each work around the clock."
I'm wondering if we don't have better uses for 200 translators.

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-16 09:25|| 2007-11-16 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 That's me. Lost my cookies. Anyway, another installment of the never ending the saga of the chem/bio/nuc weapons. Look for the next chapter at an airport or stadium near you.

Syria is one of eight countries in the world that never signed a treaty banning WMD, and now is the storehouse for much of what remains of Saddam's WMD Empire. This was the target of the recent Israeli air strike.

Posted by ed 2007-11-16 09:29|| 2007-11-16 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course everyone chooses to ignore this.

"Since 2003 Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contained degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent."

Even the 'degraded' military sarin would have been far more lethal than the home brewed stuff put together and released in the Tokyo subway system. Anyone care to have it stored in their basement? Their neighborhood? Their city while it awaits destruction? Care to be downwind when it is?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-16 10:30|| 2007-11-16 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Sarin is to humans what bugspray is to roaches.

Posted by gromky 2007-11-16 10:39|| 2007-11-16 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 We were right. The moonbats were wrong. The war was and is just and would have been even if Hussein had honestly complied with the WMD agreements.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-16 10:45|| 2007-11-16 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Whenever people say "Bush lied, people died! There were no WMD's. We never should have gone into Iraq", I always ask them how long BEFORE the invasion of Iraq did you realize that there were no WMD's? Saddam was required by the cease fire agreement and UN resolutions to account for and destroy all of the WMD's. The UN resolutions did not say that he could play hide and seek with them, and if the UN inspectors couldn't find them, they didn't exist. The resolutions said that Saddam was to account for them. We knew he had them before, since he used them on the Kurds. We didn't know what happened to them. Therefore we were justified in going in to find and remove them. Because we fiddled around trying to get UN approval, Saddam had the time to hide the WMD's and ship them to other countries.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-11-16 12:59|| 2007-11-16 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 According to the Doeffler (?) report, which I read the summary, even Uday and Kusay thought Daddy had WMD's, which they wanted to use on the advancing American troops.

Or did I just dream that?

Posted by Bobby 2007-11-16 17:21|| 2007-11-16 17:21|| Front Page Top

#8 "Sold another quarter to his Arab neighbors" > Lest we fergit, the Russians themselves publicly claimed that Saddam gave a large quantity of his WMD caches to his former enemy IRAN. They believed the caches were mostly BW + CW [are still "WMDS"], but the Russ could not confirm or deny Radiologicals/NucMats were also given to Iran or other. TRUCKS WERE OBSERVED GOING OVER IRAN BORDER AREAS, WHILE AIR TRANSPORT PLANES ROUTED THRU TEHRAN OR OTHER IRAN PORTS/BASES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-16 18:24|| 2007-11-16 18:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Trucks were also observed driving to Syria, then on to the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. Does Hizb'allah have access to those?

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