The libs are trying to paint these weapons as so degraded as to be nearly safe. No doubt we will see Jack Murtha over there soon, sipping a glass of degraded sarin to prove how "safe" it really is.
In the meantime, the United States Army Arsenal at Umatilla Weapons Depot, in Umatilla Oregon, continues to operate a high tech incinerator that is destroying the Cold-War era chemical munitions stored there. Strangely, the 1950's vintage chemical weapons are thought to be dangerous enough to require complete containment of the incinerator building, and full chemical protective gear for anyone who goes anywhere near the old munitions. Authorized personnel cannot even enter a storage bunker without protective gear, because the old munitions are capable of leaking the still potent nerve agents.
So to summarize, 500 pre-1991 Iraqi chemical munitions are not to be considered as WMD's and are seriously "degraded", while 1950's era chemical munitions stored in the US are leaky, but the chemicals themselves retain full potency.
Puzzling...
We can only hope :-)
Never mind that the same lieberals were bleating that we couldn't burn up those Redeye chemical bombs back in the 1980s, even though what was in them was at least as old as what we found in Iraq.