Posted on 05/17/2004 11:28:48 AM PDT by jmstein7
Here is the misleading CNN headline:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A U.S.-led coalition convoy in Iraq found sarin gas in an artillery round rigged as an improvised explosive device, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Monday.
They are REFUSING to call them what they are -- WMD! This is an outrage.
Please contact CNN here and tell them to be honest, for once, call WMD WMD, and stop shilling for the Democrats!
Here is the FoxNews version.
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Now, go get 'em!!!
Actually, the Dems are now spelling it qWagmire. I actually saw that on a lefty site recently!
BTTT!!!!!!!
it's not just one shell that's been found thus far, there have been many kinds of finds, each & every one of which has faced similar kinds of comments. for example, all the finds of pre-cursor chemicals or the artillery shell assembly site where all the stockpiles of French provided "insecticide" were found buried.
If a WMD explodes by the roadside and no one dies, does the left make a sound...?
Actually, Paula Zahn is a WMD..to CNN's ratings...
I agree that it's not a WMD, but it IS a chemical weapon of a type whose existence in Iraq has been denied. And I also agree that there are more of them - perhaps hundreds or even thousands more - somewhere in Iraq. There are still several thousand munitions dumps in Iraq that have not been inventoried. And who knows what's still buried in the sand.
LOL! I clicked "positive"
Thank you for reporting about the sarin gas found in Iraq. You, however, neglected to mention that sarin (nerve) gas is a WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
Please alert your news personnel as well as you directors and producers. Speak the truth.......not the half truth.
I think leftists always make sounds. They rattle around after they're dead.
I saw the interview Darrin did with David Ensor. Darrin was pleading with Ensor to say it wasn't an Iraqi WMD. Ensor, to his credit, wasn't following the script and even sort of snickered at her (I had the image of him saying "Darrin you ignorant slut)at the idea this was smuggled in. Ensor played it straight and mentioned the mustard gas (hours before Fox mentioned it) and the idea of "stockpiles" being found. Darrin just about cried.
Course it does. Sounds a lot like "Rumsfield planted it".
Really? Do you have a link to this definition? I had always assumed it was any NBC weapon.
So it's not a WMD unless it's delivered and results in mass destruction? So what's a nuke before it's delivered and destroys a city? This is nonsense.
The mustard Gas was found two weeks ago, I wonder who planted that one?
The Sarin gas was discovered by the Iraqi Survey Group not the military. I guess they are in Rummy's pocket too though.
Now, Now, such things as the actual discovery of WMD must be "nuanced" out of existance in accordance with their candidate John "nuance" Kerry. At best, expect references to "old, out of date, pre-Gulf War I ordinence lost and not disposed of by Saddam" and at worst, "Planted evidence". CNN has already spoken on WMD and will not retreat even in the face of obvious evidence (ie. Jordanian bomb plans)
Wont be big news until some poor soldier or marine get injured or dies from a chemical attack.
We already have had THREE casualties At the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas due to chemical or biological agents in Iraq.
One worker was handling uniforms and other gear that had just arrived from Iraq when he was felled by difficulty breathing and a body-wide rash.
The EMT's that rushed him to the hospital were also admitted to the emergency room with the SAME symptom from simply being with the afflicted worker.
The ambulance was subsequently decontaminated.
"NO chemical nor biological agents were found"
????
Or, we could reason that one shell with Sarin is the tip of an iceberg of a bunch more, conclude "yes, Saddam had chemical weapons", and Occam's razor is saved.
Let's see, which is it? Hmmmmm.
It was a banned material and in common parlance these banned materials are what "WMD" connotes.
More specifically, the only thing separating this find from what you are talking about is (a) the amount of material and (b) means of delivery to "weaponize" it (make it deadly). The fact that the amount of material found, and means of delivery, is inadequate for truly engendering Mass Destruction, is not relevant to the ongoing debate which exists.
That is because the ongoing debate contains one side which argues that no materials of this kind existed in Iraq. This find, if the object did indeed come from Iraq, would disprove that. Even if the amount is too "small" or crudely delivered to constitute an WMD.
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