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US military destroys the last of its chemical weapons
Task & Purpose ^ | JUL 9, 2023 | NICHOLAS SLAYTON JUL 9, 2023

Posted on 07/22/2023 5:40:43 PM PDT by BeauBo

"More than 30,000 tons of chemical munitions have been disposed of over nearly three decades.

Years behind schedule and several times over budget, the United States’ declared chemical weapons stock is fully destroyed.

The last batch of munitions containing sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent, were disarmed on Friday, July 7 at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Kentucky. The destruction was verified by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons."...

..."Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, the military was supposed to have eliminated its stockpile in 2007, almost two decades ago. It was granted a five-year extension but failed to meet that as well. The U.S. gave itself a deadline of finishing the work by Sept. 30 of this year, which it finally met. The total cost of eliminating the weapons was $42 billion, 2,400 times over budget, according to the New York Times."

(Excerpt) Read more at taskandpurpose.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: chemical; military; mustard; sarin; vx; weapons
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1 posted on 07/22/2023 5:40:43 PM PDT by BeauBo
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“US military destroys the last of its chemical weapons”

I wonder if they destroyed them WITHOUT telling the Neocons...since they’d likely be in use, in Ukraine, later this year if they weren’t destroyed.


2 posted on 07/22/2023 5:42:39 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: BeauBo
2,400 times over budget

I would expect nothing less.

3 posted on 07/22/2023 5:43:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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What?!?! You mean they aren’t giving them to Zelenskyy?!?!?

Or maybe thye are giving them to Zelenskyy ‘to destroy’.


4 posted on 07/22/2023 5:44:17 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: BeauBo

We can’t get enough people, even stupid ones…

https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/addressing-the-u-s-military-recruiting-crisis/


5 posted on 07/22/2023 5:46:04 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BobL

France “destroyed” their cluster munitions in 2016, but shipped them to Ukraine in 2022.
https://mronline.org/2022/06/14/france-supplies-ukraine-with-banned-cluster-munitions-it-is-supposed-to-have-destroyed/


6 posted on 07/22/2023 5:46:16 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: BeauBo

When the US military destroys the biological weapons populating DC, somebody wake me.


7 posted on 07/22/2023 5:47:35 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Reverend Wright

Exactly.

And I don’t believe the US destroyed all of their chemical weapons.

Rather this is info to be put out and about.
Like Chlamydia, ya know?


8 posted on 07/22/2023 5:50:45 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Reverend Wright

“France “destroyed” their cluster munitions in 2016, but shipped them to Ukraine in 2022.”

The Neocons don’t even care anymore. Obviously Russia was wise enough to know that the Neocons would cheat on that Cluster Bombs too, as they cheat on everything else, even the damn Grain Deal.


9 posted on 07/22/2023 5:52:02 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: BeauBo

They were mistakenly included in that last shipment of cluster weapons.

OOPS.


10 posted on 07/22/2023 5:53:32 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: BeauBo

Meanwhile, the ChiComs, Iranians and Russians have kept theirs.


11 posted on 07/22/2023 6:00:22 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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When the cluster bombs run out to give Ukraine, DC could have unloaded the chemical weapons there. Aren’t they thinking in DC?


12 posted on 07/22/2023 6:01:37 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: wjcsux

Do you believe they’re being honest?


13 posted on 07/22/2023 6:02:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BeauBo

Next, Biden will destroy conventional weapons.


14 posted on 07/22/2023 6:06:11 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: hardspunned

“When the cluster bombs run out to give Ukraine, DC could have unloaded the chemical weapons there. Aren’t they thinking in DC?”

That’s why I think someone made the very wise decision to not mention it up the line, since it’s hard to imagine ANYTHING that would please the Neocons more than seeing Russians being gassed.


15 posted on 07/22/2023 6:06:14 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: BeauBo

Surprised that they didn’t ship them over to the Ukraine. To protect democracy or something like that.


16 posted on 07/22/2023 6:20:00 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: BeauBo

Don’t worry!

We still have these!

17 posted on 07/22/2023 6:37:14 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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To: glorgau

MOABs next.


18 posted on 07/22/2023 7:19:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Reverend Wright

Are you sure you want to use that source for anything?

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19 posted on 07/22/2023 7:26:53 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: BeauBo

Riiiiight.


20 posted on 07/22/2023 7:39:25 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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