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2010-02-05 Iraq

Have they finally found a 'weapon of mass destruction' in Iraq?

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Posted by Sherry 2010-02-05 11:32|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 MSM: What WMDs?
DeadlyNerve Agent Sarin Is Found in Roadside Bomb
More importantly, where is the cache?

Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq
about 80 tons of unaccounted for mustard gas.

Of course these people all died of an unfortunate slip and fall accident.

Posted by ed 2010-02-05 13:15|| 2010-02-05 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2
The author and her editor really should know the difference between a bomb, a missile, and a rocket, shouldn't they?

Posted by Parabellum 2010-02-05 14:17|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-02-05 14:17|| Front Page Top

#3 In case anyone is wondering, the pic looks like a Chinese Silkworm anti-ship missile buried upside down. No chemical weapons there.

Posted by ed 2010-02-05 14:47|| 2010-02-05 14:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Good call ed.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-05 14:50|| 2010-02-05 14:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The ignorant stupidity of journalists have no bounds.

SS-N-2 Stix then Silkwoorm varianets is similar size but what it is doing hundreds of miles from sea?

Posted by Glush Wittlesbach8127 2010-02-05 14:56|| 2010-02-05 14:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Saddam had experimented with a number of guided or cruise missile and unmanned MIG-21 aircraft variants some of which could be slung under a jet and launched at altitude by the host aircraft.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-05 15:11|| 2010-02-05 15:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, looks like a Silkworm to me, too.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-02-05 16:19|| 2010-02-05 16:19|| Front Page Top

#8 The expertise that I encounter at Rantburg sometimes amazes me.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-02-05 16:54|| 2010-02-05 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The SILKWORM is "dual-use" - it took SADDAM only to buy his NUKE, BIOWAR, + CHEMWAR warheads, andor indigenously dev his own while "reverse engineering" to produce Saddamist Iraq's own variant of the 'WORM.

In any case, YEAR 2012-N-BEYOND [2013] > I'm expecting the MILTERRS to formally declare their possession and competency in NUCLEAR + OTHER STRATEGIC WEAPONS TECHS.

Personally, I'm more concerned about the various MilTerr Groups as a class procuring low-tech [read, $$$ CHEAP + IDIOT-PROOF], "dual-use", NBC-CBRNE-CAPABLE UNGUIDED ROCKETS + MORTAR TUBE, ETC. SYSTEMS than the bulky, $$$ expensive, more Tech-complex MilComSys like SILKWORM + LARGER.

RELIABLE, CHEAP, POTENT, COVERT, EASY-TO-OPERATE, + WON'T STOP THE USERS FROM BLOWIN' THEMSELVES TO CAMEL-REENIES, OR WEAR WOMENS' CLOTHING, IFF THEY WANT TO.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-05 18:49|| na 2010-02-05 18:49|| Front Page Top

#10 You mean these WMDs that everyone ignores?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-05 20:48|| 2010-02-05 20:48|| Front Page Top

#11 China needs to stop giving weapons to bad guys. I am beginning to think that they do this in order to get us to expend our resources.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-05 22:46|| 2010-02-05 22:46|| Front Page Top

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