Posted on 05/17/2004 11:12:42 AM PDT by The South Texan
Nothing follows.....yet
1) We should wait and see what Mr. Blix's incredible logic is to this imponderable issue of 'WMD is not WMD.'
2) If this were found in the U.S. then would the U.S. press describe it as something other than WMD? I don't think so.
3) I've always held that the huge amounts of previous WMD's have yet to be found.
4) That the enemy is now just starting to use them shows how desperate they are.
5) I think we can conclude that Bush and Rumsfeld have been right all along on this issue of WMD, which to me was a side issue.
6) We may never find all of it, until some little kid crawls into one of Saddam's underground storage facilities and comes out wheezing and covered with pimples.
7) Saddam probably killed the people that knew where this stuff was stored. Some of it was probably shipped to Syria -- he couldn't send it to Iran like his jets.
8) It's going to be interesting to see how the local populace starts reacting to this stuff being used in their backyards.
9) I wonder how the Baathists would feel if they found out the gas bomb was placed by Shites or Kurds?
10) Why is no one talking about partitioning so we can exit quickly?... So many things to do, so many places to go.
Hoppy
:::sigh::: The two chemicals are separate inside the "shell". When the device is properly ignited the two chemicals mix together, creating sarin gas. The men were exposed as we were trying to "disarm" the device, thus it was not detonated as it was designed to be.
Had the device been fired, we'd have a LOT of dead people hanging around Iraq today.
You are too ignorant to bother with.
Okay, granted, but still, is one shell news, do you think even democrats will be amazed that they found it? It's more amazing that they haven't. Maybe then the terrorists have planted it to inoculate the american public to find them, scattered about, so if more are found is a big yawn, and then Kerry gets elected. Do I have to use the sarcasm tag now? Who can tell, still I contend there's no huge story here, one shell, say they find 5 more?
Wasn't Blix a beneficiary of the Oil for Food slush fund? I'm series.
"There are no WMDs here."
"...Two people were treated for "minor exposure" after the sarin incident but no serious injuries were reported..."
Probably because the Sarin was in it's liquid form. Had the weapon detonated it could have vaporized into the envronment which is how Sarin does it's deadliest work. My point is that the Democrats/media have been repeating the same lie now for nearly six months "NO WMDs!, NO WMDs!, NO WMDs!" So now when WMDs are found, your saying "THIS IS NO BIG DEAL!, NO NEWS HERE!, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THOSE CHEMICAL-FILLED CANISTERS!" You're back-pedaling. I smell hypocrisy.
Are you sure? Cause if you are then this is an important fact that needs to get out. I am listening to talk radio and the main not WMD point seems to be that since only two people were minorly injured the weapon in question can not have been a WMD.
What is Drudges big headline, sirens on the Sarin story? Hardly, a minor footnote, it's standing ovation time for goofball, that's the headline
No, the dems will sound just like you.
Yes, one shell is news. Is it possible that Saddam just forgot about that one shell while he destroyed all the rest? Like maybe it fell off the transport truck? Hmmm, possible.
It is equally possible that this one shell is part of a whole bunch of shells that we just haven't found yet.
In any case, I don't ignore just one cockroach in my house and assume the dog brought it in. Seems like a foolish way to go about life IMO.
I only know what I have read on this thread.
Well maybe a weapons expert will come along and explain how this weapon works and why the damnage done was so slight. I would guess that the weapon was old and lost it's effective. Your two halves is also plausable, but I don't know how sarin is made.
Yup. And I'm a former artillery officer who knows a bit about Iraqi chemical munitions, having been briefed on them pretty extensively in 90-91.
The deadly stuff was inside, needing only the rotation imparted from firing to mix the binary elements into Sarin. Because they simply detonated it, the components did not mix properly. But the ingredients were there to do the damage.
If you want a lay analogy to bounce off folks, call it a misfire. A nuke has to be detonated correctly to achieve fission/fusion. If you just stick some subcharge outside the nuke, you'll get an incomplete explosion, or maybe no explosion at all. But that doesn't make the nuke any less of a WMD. It just means that you were lucky enough on that occasion that the boneheads screwed up the detonation.
Blix wouldn't mind sticking his nose in it to check it out.The guy is a Dork.
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