"Sure they were found, but how much of a threat were they really."
If you come a cross a snake, assuming you can't immediately identify it, do you treat it as poisonous or not?
If you picked up a rusted old gun, would not treat it as if it were loaded and capable of working?
If you picked up a stick of dynamite, labeled as such, but stamped with the date 1884, would you not handle it with care?
Your "they weren't much of a threat" comment shows a lack of intelligence; whenever you deal with a WEAPON, you assume that it is capable of working or going off at any time.
Perhaps some of the shells might have been "degraded" or "inert", but it does not automatically follow that ALL of them were. It alsop doesn't follow that since we've 500 of them that we've found every last one the Iraqis hid. There are more of them out there, I'll guarentee it. I'll also guarentee that had a terrorist gotten his grubby hands on one of these things, he just might have tried to salvage that sarin or mustard gas and put it to use.
I wonder how the "it was degraded" crowd would react to that?
No weapon is ever INERT or DEGRADED until it is used, destroyed/disarmed by professionals or reclaimed completely by the earth. Just ask all the French farmers who keep losing crops and livestock to buried-and-never-found chemical rounds for the First World War. It's a common occurrance.
One other thing, becuaser you probably bought the second half of the dimwit's argument; the democrats have gone from arguing that there were no WMDs in Iraq, to having proof shoved in their face, to now arguing "yeah,but these aren't the RIGHT WMDS". That 'logic', besides being ridiculous, implies there are other WMDs out there, just waiting to be found, and that democrats KNOW about it.
Actually deliver them opened..if the true Democrats run...then they will be found out as lying...
If they are so harmless, then you will volunteer to store them in your garage until they can be destroyed...right?
Don't forget to remind him that Rock went to Syria to warn them before we came...
Don't forget to remind him that Rock went to Syria to warn them before we came...
Safety is always first...
A cup of sarin isn't a weapon until it is used as such... as is Water Hemlock, Lantana, Rhubarb leaves. Not much of a danger until you eat them...
The canisters were not attached to warheads. and NO, I would be as so stupid as to have one on a mantle.
But, the pentagon has released a report that the canisters could not be used for thier intended purpose, meaning as a weapon of mass destruction.