Iraqi chemical bunker looted

Houston Chronicle / AP ^ | Oct. 31, 2004, 1:17AM | CHARLES J. HANLEY

[cbkaty]

Oct. 31, 2004, 1:17AM

Iraqi chemical bunker looted Report is unsure if old weapons were still usable By CHARLES J. HANLEY Associated Press

Looters unleashed last year by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq overran a sprawling desert complex where a bunker sealed by U.N. monitors held old chemical weapons, American arms inspectors report.

[cbkaty]

This was NOT on the opinion page....where it should be. Note....the Iraqi looters were "unleashed" by the U.S. invasion......

[mattdono]

Chemical weapons. But, there were "NO WMDs", so how could there have been chemical weapons?

[stockpirate]

Boy are they getting crazy? Pretty soon they will say that GWB doesn't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny!

[stockpirate]

Another attack on Bush by the UN!!

[marty60]

The book is capable in the sense that it represents a clear and concise account of the early days of the Korean War : how ill prepared US forces were; how poorly trained; how badly they underestimated the North Korean Army; how little they understood the nation of Korea and its people; etc.... Using a combination of first hand accounts, official military records, and professional histories, they develop a portrait of a US force which was besotted by victory in WWII, utterly unprepared to fight in Korea, and made up largely of uneducated young men led by commanders who lacked combat experience. The predictable result was that when this force met the North Koreans in battle they were sent reeling backward in a disorganized retreat--they "bugged out."

This is from his book The Bridge at No Gun Ri. He is obviously a U.S. military hater.

[alnick]

They cannot have it both ways. Did Saddam have WMD or not? Since the position of the lefties at AP is the WMD did not exist, how the heck could the non-existent WMD have been looted?

[JimSEA]

Now hold on here just a moment. bunker sealed by U.N. monitors held old chemical weapons....... I have been told by everyone in the world (nearly) that there were no WMD's in Iraq. Now the UN is saying they had old Chemical weapons that were looted due to the incompetance of the famous liar GWB. What a tangled web we weave . . . .

[Ruth C]

This is just the tip of the iceberg of anti-Bush propaganda that will continue through Tuesday. Tonight 60 boring minutes is supposed to be doing something about our military not having the correct armored vehicles to do the fighting as they should. Of course, the only reason for this is that they still have too many people who believe we MUST win there, so they can't do their anti-war propaganda.

[Smartaleck]

How does he know the tags were removed by looters and not US soldiers?

[Caipirabob]

I am SO CONFUSED!!!!

[midwyf]

This was in the Billings Gazette this morning, I haven't seen the actual paper, but it was prominent on the web site. It is amazing to me that there were no WMDs in Iraq, but President Bush and the military have let looters get the nonexistant WMDs. Talk about trying to have it both ways.

[conservative in nyc]

The 60 Minutes allegations were previewed in Saturday's New York Times: Along With Prayers, Families Send Armor. No mention of John Kerry's failure to vote for the $87 Billion in the whole article, of course.

[snarks_when_bored]

The self-immolation of the MSM proceeds apace.

[Ruth C]

The 60 Minutes thing is about 'troops lacking fully armored vehicles to survive roadside bombings' And, thinking about the terrible loss of the Marines yesterday, they will play this to the hilt.

[airborne]

The self-immolation of the MSM proceeds apace.

[snarks_when_bored]

Indeed.

[iopscusa]

Wonder what is JfK's Plan, he certainly did not want to spend the money? Jeez the Old Media is so desperate they do not have any idea how much they have destroyed themselves. Obviously, for them there is no tomorrow. IMO they are right.

[elephantman96]

So now Iraq had WMD's??????? BWAHAAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!