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[abner]

I thought it was Greg Palkot???

[SandRat]

Funny, it was first reported about three or four days ago on FR, with subsequent posting on FR, then Saturday it appeared in a small conservative local Tucson paper but not as a headline story, this morning FNC is talking all about it, but when I surfed the other news channels up until about 11:30 am MST, none of them even knew the stuff had been found.

Funny?

I Wonder it's that way?

[Guillermo]

Just like it didn't matter if there was proof that Clinton raped 50 women, there was no way they were going to turn on him.

No matter what is found in Iraq (WMD, mass graves, torture chambers), Saddam will always be the victim of Anglo aggression.

[Howie66]

Jeepers, I hope that no one is at all surprised with this report.

[Cubs Fan]

I had wondered whcih it would be, would the mainstream media ignore this (like the proof of Al Qaeda links) or would they attack it relentlessly?

Seems they picked ignore.

[rface]

If these chem shells are from the attacks on the Kurds, then I will say that its not what I concider the WMD that brought us into Iraq - but this find is not insignificant either

[Savage Beast]

The American Propaganda Machine (a.k.a. "The Mainstream Newsmedia") never rests. Thank God for the internet and other sources of information.

[samtheman]

The weapons are probably old left-overs and not worth that much of a story... though there's no excuse for the RAT media to ignore the story completely.

The fact is, most people who understand the Iraq war --- which is most people here at FR and a majority of American citizens --- aren't all that hung up on the issue of WMD. We know Iraq used to have them. We know there is as yet no clear explanation of what he did with them. And we know that there are a thousand other good reasons why Iraq is now on the road to joining the modern world, with our assistance. And several hundred thousand good reasons why its good that Sadam is in custody.

WMD. We'll find them. I'm confident of that. But there's so much more to this story than WMD.

[Old Sarge]

Still, despite the staggering political consequences of the bombshell discovery – news that could mean total vindication for President Bush against Democrat charges that he "lied" about Iraq's WMDs – mainstream reports consistently downplayed the story.F'Kerry You, Leftists! HAHAAAHAAAAAAAA!!!!

[Mike Darancette]

This may not be the sorcerer's stone for the Bush Administration but it is at least a draw because the RATS will have to turn it into a quantitative debate.

RATS will have to say we found some but not enough to count, problem for the RATS is that Iraq is a really big place and there will likely be more.

[TaxRelief]

Drive the mainstream media *nuts* by pushing this story up on Google News.

FREEP time!

Go to Google News.
Type "blister agent" in the search box.
Click through to as many relevant stories as possible.

With enough support, this will push the story into the headlines!

[hershey]

Every time the media pulls something underhanded like this, I'm furious, but not surprised. There's literally nothing they won't do to deny a Bush victory. Just heard Fox TV who should know better, say, well, we found the blister agent shells, but are we any closer to finding WMD? The guest is calling them tactical weapons, probably not fit to put on scuds, so splitting hairs here. Nuts.

[Lazamataz]

More than 12 hours after the Fox News Channel, Reuters and the Associated Press carried reports that preliminary tests showed Iraqi mortar shells discovered near Basra contain a deadly liquid blister agent, the New York Times had yet to report the bombshell find on the main page of its Web site – or anywhere in its Sunday morning print edition.

The Washington Post's Web site also chose not to cover the blockbuster news, which ABC News military analyst Tony Cordesman said Saturday would be "the first real confirmation that Iraq actually had deployed chemical weapons and was prepared to use them" if tests confirmed the find.

More proof (as if we needed it) that the New York Times and the Washington Post have completely, brazenly, and outrightly abandoned their roles as reporters of news.

[SandRat]

Earlier posting today of this story

[sourcery]

A great rhetorical riddle comes to mind: "When is a bombshell not a bombshell?" The answer, of course, is whenever it explodes the illusions of the liberal media.

[firewalk]

bttt

[Arrowhead1952]

But according to the London Sunday Telegraph, Ali Nimir, a former colonel in an Iraqi Republican Guard artillery unit, had also confirmed the find.

"I remember seeing boxes of these kinds of armaments in our base two years ago," Nimir said. "We were told that they were chemical weapons."

"They were removed from our bases and distributed to secret hiding places about a year before the war," he explained. "I never saw them again."

If there were armaments at bases two years ago, wonder where those are buried. Even if the shell are 10 years old, think how bad the condition of the metal shell is. Those shells are an accident waiting to happen.

Artillery shells 10+ years old are still all over Iraq and waiting for the housing to rot away and spill their contents, not good.

[mtbopfuyn]

Lies! All lies! That liquid is just the grape syrup for snow cones sold from those mobile ice cream trucks they found abandoned in the desert.

[mercy]

I have never been able to tell just when they shift from constant heavy spin to deep spin. I will add this data to my future calculations.