Posted on 05/18/2004 8:21:40 AM PDT by JohnGalt
Washington-AP -- Don't jump to any conclusions just yet. That warning comes from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, after the U-S military in Iraq announced that a roadside bomb containing sarin nerve gas had exploded near a U-S military convoy.
Rumsfeld told a Washington, D-C audience that the "field test" showing the presence of sarin may not be accurate. He says more analysis needs to be done -- and that it may take some time to find out just what the chemical was.
In Baghdad, officials said the bomb was apparently left over from the Saddam era. They said two members of a military bomb squad were treated for "minor exposure" -- but that there were no serious injuries.
One official says the shell apparently contained two chemicals that are designed to combine and create sarin -- but that they didn't mix properly.
That's a courageous guess. In other words, the munition was made sometime prior to last December?
I'm pleased to announce that long-time thread disruptor John Galt has been banned or suspended.
This is excellent news.
Another one bites the dust!
Which anti-war folks are you referring to who said "no such substances existed"?
Why JG, that'd be you.
Stating it repeatedly last year and the year before, and the year before that.
It is now safe to conclude as well that Saddam bequeathed a frightening legacy to post-liberation Iraq: the Weapons of Mass Destruction still at large in Iraq. The alternative thesis namely, that the only two WMDs left in the entire country were employed in the (fortunately) failed IED attacks involving sarin and mustard gas conducted in recent days is preposterous on its face.
Guess who's got a purple page and is weeping over having to post like a school girl on FR at the BB.
I know it!!! Checked it out this morning when I heard.
I should write an Ode....or something....;)
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