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2003-03-25 Iraq

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Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-03-25 09:35 am|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Apparently, the first plant isn't a real WMD plant, although one wonders what WAS being manufactured there for it to have camoflage, barracks, an electric fence, AND a general minding the store.

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-25 09:45:44|| 2003-03-25 09:45:44|| Front Page Top

#2 It's way too early to tell, and rumors and contradictory reports keep flying around, but you KNOW that something sinister was going on there. You don't spend all that money and effort to camouflage a Baby Milk Factory(TM).

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-25 09:54:02|| 2003-03-25 09:54:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Too short for Scuds. Probably FROGs.

Posted by mojo 2003-03-25 10:10:02|| 2003-03-25 10:10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh - I thought Saddam didnt have anything. Kill the bastard.......What are the French saying now????........They should level out Iraq and get the hell out of there.....Kill everyone that comes in their path...

Posted by Andrea from Jersey 2003-03-25 10:41:34|| 2003-03-25 10:41:34|| Front Page Top

#5 SCUD info:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/missile/scud_info/scud_info_s02.htm#III.%C2%A0%20IRAQ%E2%80%99S%20SCUD%20CHARACTERISTICS%20AND%20CAPABILITIES

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-25 11:22:32|| 2003-03-25 11:22:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I am anything BUT a chemical engineer, but it's my guess that we won't find evidence until later, after the military phase is over. SammyCo have had plenty of time to hide / destroy the most incriminating evidence of any WMD program, so I wouldn't expect our troops to trip over any 55-gallon drums with Mr. Yuk stickers all over them. It could come down to small stockpiles (juh'know, in Damascus), or just chemical detection of what used to be a pond full o' VX. The sci-tech people are really going to be earning their paychecks on this one.

Posted by matt 2003-03-25 11:24:31|| 2003-03-25 11:24:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Gotta hope/believe we are "disarming WMD" nearly every evening in those flashes in the distant skies, and I agree it may take some longer term forcenics to reconstruct our proof... which will have been "planted" by the Great Satan anyway, according to the Arab street. Hans would be proud of our pace, but would caution us against moving to quickly... The "good stuff" will probably in the paperwork trail that emerges from private homes. Let's see, postmarked Paris? Frankfort? Hummm.

Posted by Capsu78 2003-03-25 11:44:53|| 2003-03-25 11:44:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey Fred, could you turn Anonymous's SCUD info URL (3 comments above) into a link? The page is falling off the screen again! Thanks...

Posted by Old Grouch 2003-03-25 14:48:02|| 2003-03-25 14:48:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's the link:

Scud Info

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-25 15:09:09|| 2003-03-25 15:09:09|| Front Page Top

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