Thanks, I've been trying to convince someone on another thread not to fall for the confusing "degraded" wording. Degraded may mean they're likely to leak or likely not to fly with accurate trajectory, but they're still lethal toxic gasses.
Gee, the MSM says it's much ado about nothing...
Great Work!!
Keep this one on top. Senator Santorum needs some help. MSM will cover this only when they absoluty must.
Great find!! Clearly such chem munitions CAN retain their potency for many years, contrary to what libs have rushed to say........So was the "anonymous Pentagon official" who was utilized so quickly to dismiss the significance of the 500+ chem munitions doing so on the basis of any real inside info, or was it just the typical Clintonista spin? I have to suspect it's the latter...... but surely someone must have been testing these munitions, so maybe the real info exists somewhere in the bureaucracy??
Great find!! Clearly such chem munitions CAN retain their potency for many years, contrary to what libs have rushed to say........So was the "anonymous Pentagon official" who was utilized so quickly to dismiss the significance of the 500+ chem munitions doing so on the basis of any real inside info, or was it just the typical Clintonista spin? I have to suspect it's the latter...... but surely someone must have been testing these munitions, so maybe the real info exists somewhere in the bureaucracy??
"Scott Ritter. Paging Scott Ritter."
Tigerhawk also, sarcastically, points this out in his blog entry.
Update III: Further underscoring my point about the curious lack of interest in "negative" WMD news, witness the virtual media feeding frenzy (along with voluminious follow-up reports and analysis from experts!) which greeted this find just last summer:
US troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on US and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said yesterday.
The early morning raid last Monday found 11 precursor agents, ''some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Steven Boylan, said in Baghdad.
Combined, the chemicals would yield an agent capable of ''lingering hazards" for those exposed to it, Boylan said. The likely targets would have been ''coalition and Iraqi security forces, and Iraqi civilians," partly because the chemicals would be difficult to keep from spreading over a wide area, he said.
Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from sometime after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/06/these-are-not-wmds-youre-looking-for.html
One more time,.....Thanks for your excellent efforts and posting some very useful information...( If we knew the name of the Defense Department expert quoted in the MSM news reports we could let him know also...but ) pinging others....
Can you explain how it was that Hussein wasn't able to use these when he was down to his very last days in power-- the time you'd think he would be the most desperate and the most likely to do so? Or the Sunni malcontents since the Hussein regime ended? It doesn't compute. What kind of threat were they if they wouldn't even use these weapons in the most obvious moments?
Salute on your UN proof there !!! Gotta love Freepers...
'Bush Lied" screamed the DUmmy.
But we found over 500 shells filled with WMD!
"Yeah, well....Bush stinks and we have the Dixie Chicks on our side...You red staters must be fuming. HAW! One of your great country band has left you to nuance with us on the (all rise) ***LEFT***!! Nobody I know listens to thier music, but we bought the CD just to pi** you all off.
So you found the WMD, we can come up with a new slogan!
"Bush Tried...." er no.. "Bush Cried" no. Shows him as being human.
Let us on the (all rise) ***LEFT** get back with you" the DUmmy speaks with the most connect words he has ever said at one time.
You keep coming up with stuff and we will keep knocking them out of the park Dummy!
Just an awesome find. Thanks!!
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I'm loving' this.
Perhaps dinasour can get this to Tony Snow. He has got to talk to th president about getting this out. The lame stream media is already downplaying the importance of this.
Thank you! You are a treasure.