[jveritas]

Some will say that this may only small quantity of Chemical Weapons Agents to be used to train their Chemical platoon and it is not an indication of large stocks of Chemical weapons. I think that is wrong first because the mere existence of these Chemical Weapons agent, regardless of its quantity, was totally prohibited for Saddam regime to us. Second, I read hundred of pages of Al Qadysia documents and I concluded that the Iraqis were obsessed with Chemical training for their Chemical platoons and their troops. Why that obsession if they did not have the intention to produce Chemical weapons.

[jveritas]

Saddam Chemical Weapons training.

[Peach]

I'm surprised anthrax isn't listed here. Thanks for the hard work, jveritas!

[saganite]

I believe critics would answer your question by stating that the training was defensive in nature because they expected an enemy to use the weapons against their own troops.

Was there anything in the documents to point towards protecting their own troops from the effect of their own use of those weapons?

[Eagle Eye]

They also had chemical warfare training classes at Habaniyah and I'll bet you can guess why I know this as a fact with no uncertainty.

[XJarhead]

Second, I read hundred of pages of Al Qadysia documents and I concluded that the Iraqis were obsessed with Chemical training for their Chemical platoons and their troops. Why that obsession if they did not have the intention to produce Chemical weapons.

What kind of "chemical training" were they obsessed about? I mean, the U.S. military has chemical platoons and conducts chemical training even though we no longer plan to use them ourselves. I can't recall the number of times I had to go into the ol' gas chamber to swallow my fill of CS. So I guess the question is whether the training you describe is for protection/detection/decontamination, or for delivery.

I'm not saying that I disagree with your overall conclusion, because I don't. I just want to make sure we don't overstate the case in a few instances, because we know the MSM will focus on those few overstatements as a way to discredit what otherwise is a valid conclusion.

[xzins]

“The Practical (Applied) Training Schedule”

This appears to be the key to me. While it's true that chemical units do decontamination work, that is not all that this says.

A "practical training schedule" means that they are going ou to do some actual detecting. To do actual detecting, they must have the chemicals on hand for the troops to practice on.

That means, at a minimum, that they had small quantitities for training their troops.

Such small quantities would be deadly in the hands of a terrorist delivery system.

(T6 will correct me if I'm wrong.)

[expatpat]

I haven't looked at this in detail, but this could well be defensive in nature. In other words, training to detect chemical agents dispersed by an enemy (e.g., Iran or the US). Can you point me to a clearly offensive training operation?

[ohioWfan]

THANK you for doing this, j!!

As I see this forum deteriorating into madness out there, it is YOUR work that keeps me hopeful that there is still a point to all this.

[SittinYonder]

Here's the latest document translation.

[BenLurkin]

BTTT!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

jveritas Bump.

[Western Phil]

The UN weapons inspectors hired a US firm to conduct geophysical investigations during the time period from approximately 1997-98 for possible buried items in Iraq. Included among their "finds"were areas where the geophysical people's electromagnetics determined there were dumped chemicals. It was clear that part of the Iraqi's method for beating the system was to dump/bury suspect items before the weapons inspectors could find them.

The geophysics people described the Iraq country side pristine as compared to lots of buried wires, pipes, etc. in the US.

[July 4th]

You make me want to learn Arabic so I can help you out with this.

[genefromjersey]

Sir, I noticed documents released on 4/07 and 4/08 have been "pulled" from the website. A couple of them looked rather interesting.

Any thoughts ?

[avacado]

Jveritas,

No doubt the MSM peeks in here each day and no doubt with each of your translations the MSM is getting an increasingly worse migraine headache as critical mass approaches.

They (MSM) know that at some point that they will have to begin reporting on the new information coming from the documents. And they also know that saying the documents are fake won't work.

Jveritas and all the other translators have the MSM in a real quagmire.

Good work!

[rightinthemiddle]

jveritas=Great American

[Fighting Irish]

Talk about too little too late.......

Am I the only one that gets angry reading these "smoking gun" documents now that the pooch, cattle and the neighbors canary has been screwed?

[Danae]

You DA MAN! JV!

[roaddog727]

Excellent work!

Drive on!

[COEXERJ145]