Dear Alan Colmes: You know squat about mustard gas.

National Review ^ | 6-24-06 | Jim Geraphty

[george76]

Alan Colmes, last night:

“Jim Angle, who reported this for FOX News, quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they’d already been degraded ..."

Here's what you find when you do some digging on the Internet about mustard gas: a letter from two United Nations weapons inspectors to the President of the Security Council from 1999:

" a dozen mustard-filled shells were recovered at a former CW storage facility in the period 1997-1998. The chemical sampling of these munitions, in April 1998, revealed that the mustard was still of the highest quality.

After seven years, the purity of mustard ranged between 94 and 97%..."

A 94 to 97 percent purity after seven years strikes me as pretty long lasting...

Try researching, Alan. Mustard gas keeps its toxicity for a long time.

Stop telling your viewers and listeners that the weapons were "degraded" — which, without context, sounds like "harmless."

[AdvisorB]

Alan shills for the RATs...enough said.

[muawiyah]

Alan Colmes undoubtedly knows someone on the Left who lives near American University. The folks there have been finding buried mustard gas cylinders (and other neat stuff) for decades.

Quite rightfully they demand the government take them away ~ else they might well be killed by these still lethal weapons ~ buried over 80 years ago!

[george76]

"Also, TKS reader Ed notes that every year, some unlucky French farmers have health complications from run-ins with mustard gas left over from World War One."

[ClaireSolt]

What I do not understand is how anyone knows enough about what R Santorum was talking about to say anything about it.

[george76]

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002

"I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction." -- Dick Gephardt in September of 2002

"There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat... Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. -- Wesley Clark on September 26, 2002

http://home.earthlink.net/~mmmhiggins/IRAQWMD.html#TOP

[leprechaun9]

Alan Colmes - The man from AREA 51!

[mykdsmom]

Alan has totally sold out to the darkside. He at least used to "occasionally" try to be intellectually honest but for the past couple of years he has just regurgitated and facilitated the liberal Bush hatred so much that I can barely listen to him at all any more.

There is nothing that I despise more than intellectual dishonesty, unfortunately there is a lot to despise these days. Maybe I'm just getting old and grouchy but I'm getting so I just turn off the TV more and more and listen to my IPOD. The music relaxes me, the politics just makes me mad.

[jazusamo]

Here's a link to a thread posted by jveritas recently regarding mustard gas, it's very interesting.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653841/posts

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Jim Angle, who reported this for FOX News, quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they’d already been degraded ..."

That's a pretty vague comment. What about them was supposed to be "degraded"? The mustard itself? A dispersal agent? A propulsive charge?

[george76]

Alan was trying to minimize the WMDs that were found...as if they were harmless.

[george76]

Thanks for the referral.

Lots of good stuff there.

[jveritas]

I am glad that someone in the print media is challenging this stupid lie that the Chemical shells found in Iraq with Mustard gas in it are not effective anymore.

[Texas Eagle]

Dear Alan Colmes: You know squat about mustard gas.

At least he's consistent. He knows squat about everything else as well.

[jazusamo]

You bet. I happened to catch that segment with Colmes the other night, I swear he's getting lamer and lamer.

[TheLion]

Why does Colmes and the rest of the lefties need to be on Fox. I think most of their viewers want conservative reporing and not the so called "fair and balanced approach".

[jazusamo]

As am I jveritas, your hard work is starting to pay off.

[Chgogal]

"* Some of these shells contain deadly Mustard Gas and Phosgene. Chemical shells left over from World War 1 that are still as deadly as the day they were fired."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654560/posts

Here is the original BBC url but you need to scroll down one story or so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/series9/week_four.shtml

Here is a direct quote.

"They may be 90-years-old and look harmless but the chemical agents can be as deadly as the day they were first made. Destroying them has to take place inside a high security lab.

The scale of the problem is frightening and with toxic agents like phosgene and mustard gas, it is dangerous work."

[satchmodog9]

The pre Bush administration quotes are key. they can't say Bush lied on those.

[infidel29]

I was about to link to the BBC story until I saw you beat me to it.

Colmes is a liberal idiot, I simply googled "BBC, WWI, mustard gas" and got a list of articles detailing the deadliness of the stuff 90 years after the fact. Gas from the late 80s and early 90s would carry the same potency.

Once again, liberals shy away from the facts like vampires from holy water.