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This is the liberal response to the WMD find: "Santorum recycles bogus Iraq WMD claims"
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Posted on 06/22/2006 4:50:29 AM PDT by ChrisFelice1

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has been making the rounds claiming that the US has in fact discovered banned weapons in Iraq. The claims are based on the continuing sporadic appearance of pre-Gulf War I munitions containing variously disintegrated chemical weapons, and the Pentagon has said that the claims are crap: the munitions in question, mostly artillery rounds, are unusable and have been for years...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; wmd
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To: Zavien Doombringer

PS - MC-1's can also be filled with other chemical compounds, amongst them VX and Sarin


201 posted on 06/22/2006 12:32:46 PM PDT by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: Zavien Doombringer

Just in case you don't know what Osmium tetoxide is, and it's use as a chemical weapon or component of Sarin and VX, read this:

http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/040413.htm


202 posted on 06/22/2006 12:36:58 PM PDT by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: ichabod1
My understanding from the weapons expert O'Reilly had on last night, was that degraded means the stuff is no longer a highly volatile liquid, but has turned into a sort of goo. It doesn't flow well, so the artillery rounds wouldn't work properly. Seems to me the terrorists haven't exactly needed artillery tubes to make artillery rounds do their bidding up to now.

That is only for the mustard gas shell and not the Sarin shell. However, there is a thread going around showing the UN says this mustard gas is in quite good shape after 12 years of storage.

203 posted on 06/22/2006 12:40:21 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Wombat101
Well, then aside from your general snide remarks, it seems we have the same knowledge in this area. Though you may think I am taking the subject candidly or ignorantly, I can assure you, I am not ignorant nor am I being candid. I cannot stand the rhetoric from both sides on this issue.

Point I am making is... If you want to categorize these canisters as WMD, fine...

You want to count anything after one, mass, fine... by your definition, any weapon that can kill numerous (anything after 1) living beings is a WMD - including a hand grenade, which is only has an effective radius of 15 feet.

My take on the mass is not by volume, but area.

Please accept my apology

204 posted on 06/22/2006 12:40:51 PM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Mr. Franklin, what form of customes did you create in Tiajunna? A beeber, Madam, if you can stune it)
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To: Zavien Doombringer

Accepted.

Agree to disagree.


205 posted on 06/22/2006 12:42:58 PM PDT by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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