Posted on 05/17/2004 8:20:19 PM PDT by yatros from flatwater
FORMER chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was most likely a stray weapon possibly from the first Gulf War.
The US-led coalition used that claim to justify the invasion even though UN inspectors failed to make any significant finds before the war.
The former Swedish foreign minister said the 155-mm shell used to attack a US military convoy Monday could have been part of a group of old, unused shells that were simply debris leftover from the war in 1991, adding the weapon could have been scavenged from a dump.
"It doesn't sound absurd at all. There can be debris from the past and that's a very different thing from having stockpiles and supplies," he said.
"Whether this may indicate something more ... I think we need to know more about it."
Saddam's regime was told to destroy any weapons of mass destruction under UN resolutions passed after the 1991 war. Blix reiterated that his inspectors found no such weapons in the run-up to the invasion.
"We found a dozen warheads that were intended for chemical weapons and they were empty," he said.
His inspectors also found four other shells that were designed to carry chemical weapons, including the sarin used in the attack Monday, but they were also empty.
US Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said in Baghdad that two soldiers were treated for minor exposure to sarin, but no serious injuries were reported. He said he believed that insurgents who planted the explosive didn't know it contained the nerve agent.
Blix, former director of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, has sharply criticized the US and Britain for invading Iraq without UN approval. He retired last year and currently heads a new Stockholm-based independent commission on weapons of mass destruction.
Blix said today that the discovery of the nerve agent was not a sign that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war last year.
Doesn't that reply sound remarkably like someone who was just asked, "Isn't it absurd to deny that sarin is a WMD? Isn't it absurd to think this shell just fell from the sky?"
Blix reiterated that his inspectors found no such weapons in the run-up to the invasion. "We found a dozen warheads that were intended for chemical weapons and they were empty," he said.
They weren't even supposed to possess this particular warhead, much less the materials to create sarin. Stick your head up your a$$ and go back to sleep, Hans.
When I was about five years old, my mom told me I could play outside, as long as I stayed in the back yard.
I climbed over the fence and went into the front yard, and she caught me.
"Why did you go into the front yard?"
My answer, as she was looking at me over the locked gate, "I didn't."
But I was five years old. How old is Hans Blix?
'tis but a scratch.
Well, this is a slight improvement from the Sarin was planted by the CIA....
Then what the he!! is sarin?
A condiment?
And that was enough to send Tommy Chong away for 9 months!
I will help conduct that experiment.
Headlines: Sarin discovered in bomb aimed at US troops and Iraqi civilians
Democrats and Blix squeeze their eyes closed reeeeeeeeeal tightly and...
Shazam! Sarin is no longer a Weapon of Mass Destruction. That's right folks, like a true miracle, the deadly nerve gas Sarin has now been declared to be "not a WMD". Of course Kerry claimed that it was a WMD in a speech to the Senate, but that was then. After all, creatures get dropped off the endangered species list, so Democrats can drop Sarin off the WMD right?
OK, now where did it come from if there were no WMD there at the time? Well.... sqeeeeeeeeeeze those eyes really tight...
Shazam Another Demo Miracle. It came, like the miracle of the Virgin Birth from nowhere at all. Just suddenly appeared in May 2004 by the side of the road.
So, when it used to be a WMD it wasn't there. And when it was dropped from the WMD list, it suddenly appeared. But since it is no longer a WMD, we won't worry about Sarin Gas anymore.
I hope the army doesn't play "panty on the head" asking anyone where it came from either. That would get Senator Kennedy upset.
>>"could have" been part of a group of old, unused shells that were simply debris leftover
Liberals can go through a jailhouse and explain how every inmate "could be" innocent.
John Loftus last night reported on the John Batchelor Show that the 155 shell with sarin in it was part of a much larger group of shells.He claims the shells with the sarin had their plastic coverings removed and stored with mormal 155 shells.There by hiding the shells in plain site. The bad guys found a cashe of shells and thought they were standard shells and set it to detonate.
BLIX IS NOT A EVIDENCE OF SWEDEN !
OR BLIX IS NOT A EVIDENCE OF A SWEDE !
"Ah, Magoo, you've done it again!"
I wonder if those 20,000 files found in Iraq relating to the Oil for Food Scandal will come up with files titled Ritter, Kay, and Blix.
Has an ironic ring to it.
They were just decorations that saddam had made for his house.
What chaps me about this is that a man who was led on a wild goose chase by Saddam, who did not have access to everything we have access to by virtue of dethroning Saddam is still believed by the media. The don't see WMD solely because they don't want to.
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