Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'Dragon's Egg': Marines who guarded Saddam's mysterious bunker fear weapons unleashed
Fox News ^ | 10.17.2014 | Paul Alster

Posted on 10/17/2014 2:01:37 PM PDT by dware

The U.S. Marines who guarded the sprawling complex in northwest Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s 1980s war machine churned out some of the most deadly chemical and biological weapons known to man had a name for one especially mysterious bunker: The Dragon’s Egg.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 105mmshells; 155mmshell; 1983; 200811; 20081102; 201410; almuthana; almuthanna; bunker13; bunker41; chemicalweapons; dragonsegg; gas; iraq; iraqiwmd; iraqwmds; isis; karlrove; mustard; muthana; muthanna; nervegas; saddam; saddamhussein; sarin; tabun; vx; wmd; wmds
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last
To: Carry_Okie

No, access isn’t the issue. Cleaning the stuff is. Incinerating our own chemical weapons and precursors took over a decade and we still had a little accident at Dugway with a herd of sheep (apparently the afterburners in the chimneys weren’t hot enough IIRC). And all of that stuff was stored properly in barrels. This would be some ungodly brew on the floor. Maybe it’d be possible but it wouldn’t be cheap. Or safe.


21 posted on 10/17/2014 2:43:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Cats Pajamas

Rove is an unprincipled political hack with a white board. It’s all a big game to him.


22 posted on 10/17/2014 2:46:53 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: dware

Yawnnnnnn....

Haven’t you heard? Chemical and biological weapons are not WMD’s. Bush went to war with Iraq to find and destroy his nuclear weapons.

Or something.


23 posted on 10/17/2014 2:55:32 PM PDT by saleman (?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Clump

It’s that way with our boys. But, the example I used was my sister-in-law. There’s some sibling drama in the family, nothing TV-worthy. The way the sisters related over the years seems to me correlated with their political leanings.


24 posted on 10/17/2014 3:12:34 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: dware

So marines were guarding the WMD that did not exist.


25 posted on 10/17/2014 3:25:12 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dware

26 posted on 10/17/2014 3:34:37 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fergusobesityon MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco
Take your head out of your ass and wise up.......maybe even smell some flowers.

You can send me dead flowers by the mail and I won't forget to put roses on your grave.

27 posted on 10/17/2014 3:36:36 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill
This would be some ungodly brew on the floor. Maybe it’d be possible but it wouldn’t be cheap. Or safe.

I wouldn't expect it to be either.

28 posted on 10/17/2014 3:37:35 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie
You can send me dead flowers by the mail

Let me guess, you're gonna blame the dead flowers on Bush too...


29 posted on 10/17/2014 3:44:34 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie

It is MHO that Bush Jr is a globalists just like his dad. That is why Bill, barry and the Bushes are all buddies and no body from our side will stand up to let alone speak ill of the obamanation that is destroying the Country.


30 posted on 10/17/2014 3:47:55 PM PDT by winodog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: saleman
Haven’t you heard? Chemical and biological weapons are not WMD’s.

Not to even mention the yellow cake they found.

31 posted on 10/17/2014 3:51:52 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco

You apparently don’t know Zero about Bush.


32 posted on 10/17/2014 3:53:00 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Logical me
Greta is a little loose in the head.

Shhhh. Don't say that around her or she be off for more plastic surgery and botox injections. It's actually hard to find anything on the outside of her head that is loose.

33 posted on 10/17/2014 4:02:10 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: dware

Thanks to Rove and Obola, America is in peril.


34 posted on 10/17/2014 4:18:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Billthedrill

That was my first guess, but why not encapsulate it? Something’s bound to get out when you’re dealing with an end-of-the-world religion.


35 posted on 10/17/2014 4:45:04 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: originalbuckeye

these aren’t the WMD that Bush was looking for

36 posted on 10/17/2014 4:47:40 PM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie
You apparently don’t know Zero about Bush.

In case the author hadn't noticed, America is not at war against militant Islam, even though they have effectively declared war against us. In Western society, wars are against governments, not religions. It is an asymmetry both in ideology and law that arises from our Constitutional foundations, leaving us peculiarly vulnerable to this kind of war.

6 posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 9:28:18 AM by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)

Gosh, one wonders if you just might have some hidden animosity towards the Bush family………Well lookie here…..

To: spycatcher; B4Ranch

There is a Masonic tradidion that led to the founding of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which later became the Knights of the Ku Klux Clan (kuklus means "circle" in Greek). The plan was for a slave nation that incorporated the American South, Mexico, Central America, and the Northern Coast of South America. Havana was to be the capital. BTW, the Walker family (as in George WALKER Bush) was both a prime member of the KGC and had significant dealings in Nicaragua. There is speculation that the interest on the part of the KGC was in reviving the drug trade, and perhaps rediscovering the gold mines of the Aztecs.

Masonic traditions reach back to Zoroasterian origins, far enough back to have a record of such a city. There are other, more tangible evidences ancient exploration and perhaps trade with Central America conducted by both Hebrew and Phoenician civilizaions. There is evidence of a global drug trade extending back at least as far as the pre-Mosaic dynasties of Egypt.

24 posted on 12/06/2001 10:28 PM PST by Carry_Okie

Come on bro, tell us more. How about throwing in some connection to the Illuminati too....LOL

Carry_Okie history

37 posted on 10/17/2014 4:53:01 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco; Carry_Okie
Carry_Okie is only saying the truth here. The Libs CAN blame these on Bush for having not destroyed them when it was easy to do so.

However, saying any of that will cause their heads to explode. Those fools have been saying Bush had no justification for the war since over a year before we went into Iraq.

Leave Carry_Okie alone and get your head screwed on straight.

38 posted on 10/17/2014 5:20:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: 1010RD
What logical reason would exist for more than a decade to not dismantle this and de-weaponize it?

Depending what's in there, it may have been best to not disturb it.

39 posted on 10/17/2014 5:59:53 PM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco
If I could show you a connection between the Bush family of that time and this, would you shut up and admit that you didn't know the history or are you just going to keep shooting off your ignorant mouth?

Otherwise, I'm not going to bother.

40 posted on 10/17/2014 6:39:41 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson