Kool-Aid avec Sarin goes great!
It is important to note that the shell was a binary delivery system. UNSCOM supposedly accounted for all that existed in Iraq (circa of construction, the mid to late 90's), but AT LEAST one escaped the Ritter smoke screens. The construction time is the essential point ... if produced during the clinton administration period, this is evidence of an ongoing WMD program that had to be stopped!
Hope this is the real deal and gets broadcast loudly.
And these idiot liberals and Dems are busy attacking Bush because the stockpiles have not been found. Do they have any clue as to what danger we are in?
*BUMP*!
Am I the only one that thinks that 790 tons is a LOT of sarin?
This type of chemical warfare shell had never been declared by Iraq -- it was not even known that Iraq had ever made them. The 1999 UNSCOM report on Iraq reported that thirty binary/Sarin shells were known to exist, and stated that all had been accounted for.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet that there's more shells somewhere. If the democrats would just shut the hell up and let Bush do his job, we might get to the bottom of this before one goes off in the US.
Nope- the precursors are loaded when the shell is manufactured- firing the shell, and the resultant spin imparted by the rifling causes a wall between the two containers to rupture, and mixes the prescursors.
Also, I suspect it was a 155mm artillery round, not a mortar round.
Much as I support the war, and think we need to stay the course...I don't think this proves there are stockpiles of WMD sitting around in Iraq. They may have been moved to syria, who knows. But I don't think a single round makes our case. For one thing, why use a single round? Why not use a truck load?
I still think we were right to go in, and I beleive SH would have restarted/ramped up his production had sanctions been lifted, but I don't think this is the smoking gun we're looking for.
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There you have it.
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Lots and LOTS of lethal weapons, in this article,to use against the idiots,who are still screaming about "no WMDS". :-)
No one seems to remember any longer the stockpiles of chemical suits and gas masks which were found in hospitals and schools during the march to Baghdad. Why else were they there except to guard the Iraqi army against the WMD to be unleased upon us? I thank psy-ops for deterring these weapons being released to harm our troops.
No one seems to remember any longer the stockpiles of chemical suits and gas masks which were found in hospitals and schools during the march to Baghdad. Why else were they there except to guard the Iraqi army against the WMD to be unleased upon us? I thank psy-ops for deterring these weapons being released to harm our troops.
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The assumption requires us to assume that Sadaam's regime would make just one such shell, as a custom job, rather than a whole production run of thousands. A single shell has no strategic importance, a thousand are of very strategic importance
I have a feeling we already know where they got the shells. It's just a matter of time before we round them all up and get them to a safe place.
BTTT for this news.