Posted on 10/07/2004 2:29:16 PM PDT by brookwood
"We might soon re-learn the meaning of imminence."
Yeah, no shiite. :(
Nice trolling.
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I've started actually reading this reports (as you too apparently did) and I have to wonder if this is the same report the media has? How could they ignore all the summary items stating he was keeping his Chemical Weapons program active at a low level hiding it as dual use?
Why?
Cause thats what the trolls do.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THIS PERSON IS A TROLL? Jeeze.
I see the signs.
Ah. ok.
Sakr-18: Egyptian 40- tube 122mm MRL based on the Soviet BM-21. It has a range of 20 km carrying a 23 kg cluster munition. Tipped with a Sarin warhead they only have to be close and upwind of troop or civilian concentrations to inflict heavy casualties. One such warhead, smuggled into a major sporting event or similar public gathering, could easily inflict 10 or 20 times the casualties of 911.
"As I recall, 40 MIG-29s were found buried in the desert. That takes up a lot of volume.
We will be astonished at the crap that will emerge from iraq in the nexr 30 years..."
I have not been able to review the current report, but have seen no indications in the media or other reports that we have done any subsurface searches for WMD. Most of the TV pictures seem to show raids in urban areas. Maybe we have no idea where to look. It is an axiom that to find anything that is buried, you have to know where it is. The Kay report indicated that many if not all of the pertinent records were destroyed before we were able to capture them.
Martin Schram (who did a public television program on WMD in 2003)claimed to be aware of strange burials of materials in the desert. (It was posted on FR, but I do not have the reference handy.)
The report "Geophysics and weapons inspection" at
http://www.geophex.com/Publications/publications.htm
is a good technical article on the UNSCOM weapons inspections in the mid-late 90s. Figure 7, in particular shows Sadaam's intent as related to his nuclear ambitions. The nuclear related parts and instruments were carefully wrapped in plastic on pallets, clearly for later recovery and use. Most of the site investigated during the UNSCOM inspections were identified by aerial photography. It is hard for me to believe that all burial sites were identified and investigated.
INTREP
Yes and no; chemical weapons will degrade and become ineffective over time. There are ways to slow that, so it's possible to store them improperly for shelf life, yet still be stored safely from a handling perspective.
I put up a screenshot of the page from the report. You can see it here: http://home.comcast.net/~travisbarden/
Hey, you forgot the 100's of gallons of chemicals used for making "insecticide"....
Bet Dan and the boys would be singing a different tune if a few of them were doing the "dying cockroach".
But J.F'n Kerry sez that the threat is overrated.
I feel safer already.
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