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BREAKING: Chatter indicates Chemical Weapon may be used

Posted on 04/02/2003 8:01:37 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs

From the Fox News Scroll: Some soldiers and marines stepping up Chem, Bio preparations colation forces move closer to Baghdad.

Defense officials say increased "Chatter" suggests Iraqi forces may be planning to unleash chem weapong once coalition troops push into Baghdad Red Zone.

Centcom says US very careful in target selection because regime known to keep weapon cashes in schools, hospitals depite intl laws of armed conflict.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: chatter; chemicalweapons; illegalweapons; iraqifreedom; redzone; roadtobaghdad; wmd
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To: Hootch
They look like desert plants that way.

Much of the Iran-Iraq war was fought in the Shatt-al-Arab swamps. Perhaps that's why.

Perhaps the French has lots of left over green material.
21 posted on 04/02/2003 8:11:22 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: DigiLinus
Could we nuke with our troops all over the neighborhood. I don't see a nuke,,after all we want to win hearts and minds and the Iraqi people aren't using the wmd,,a small group of evil people are.
22 posted on 04/02/2003 8:11:51 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: DigiLinus
You need to open up more and tell how you really feel.
23 posted on 04/02/2003 8:12:19 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: cajungirl
How can that happen with our troops so close,,

The blast radius on tactical nuclear weapons is not nearly as big as people think.

They made one that could be used within a mile of our troops. One of them (the nuclear bazooka, forgot the name*retired weapon*) has a blast radius larger than the range of the weapon.

24 posted on 04/02/2003 8:12:34 PM PST by Centurion2000 (We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Which way is the wind blowing in Baghdad...?

It has been pretty still, since Peter Arnett left.

25 posted on 04/02/2003 8:12:48 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Nada. Weather is prime time for chemical. Bio is only effective on a city setting and civilians, in the field it's as useless as throwing a hand grenade at an M1A1.

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26 posted on 04/02/2003 8:13:01 PM PST by Beck_isright (If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
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To: EricOKC
We will not use WMD against them. We will use Daisy and MOAB however.

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27 posted on 04/02/2003 8:13:46 PM PST by Beck_isright (If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
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To: cajungirl
It's cloudy and overcast in Baghdad. If they use WMD they would hang around for a while.
28 posted on 04/02/2003 8:14:02 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (May all of Saddam's virgins look like Helen Thomas)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Here's a question. I believe that only Sadaam himself could order someone to use chem weapons. If he's dead, who's going to take the responsibility for using something that makes all invovled (from general to private) an instant war criminal?
29 posted on 04/02/2003 8:14:14 PM PST by Dialup Llama
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To: Beck_isright
Now that is good news. I had a friend once tell me years ago not to worry about nuclear war,,this was the height of the cold war. He said they would try to fire the nukes and none but a couple would go off,,they would all malfunction. He practically invented the microprocessor and was very smart so that sort of relieved me.
30 posted on 04/02/2003 8:14:43 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Centurion2000
A huge explosion just rocked central Baghdad.
31 posted on 04/02/2003 8:15:02 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (May all of Saddam's virgins look like Helen Thomas)
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To: Beck_isright
Weather is prime time for chemical.

The wind appears to be blowing east to west in the CBS Baghdad cam.

32 posted on 04/02/2003 8:15:08 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Hootch
"Iraq is in the desert right?"

No, not all of it. Once you get into the river deltas and around Baghdad, it's more agricultural and marshy. In the north it varies between rolling hills and desert.

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33 posted on 04/02/2003 8:15:09 PM PST by Beck_isright (If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
didn't hear it on the CBS cam
34 posted on 04/02/2003 8:15:59 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Centurion2000
Yep. This is why we have been begging them not to use bio/chem's as we gotta nuke em and there are civilians.But war is war.
36 posted on 04/02/2003 8:16:21 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Beck_isright
I hope you are right,,nothing like a little carpet bombing followed by a couple of moabs to clarify their thinking,,that would be my response. Usually you and I fight and butt heads, but tonite you are a sweet voice of reason. Not that there is anything wrong with that,,haha
37 posted on 04/02/2003 8:16:23 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Dialup Llama
His sons can authorize it also. FYI.

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38 posted on 04/02/2003 8:16:35 PM PST by Beck_isright (If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
It was on Fox News. They had big boomy bombs, and then the alert said Huge Explosions Rock Baghdad.
39 posted on 04/02/2003 8:17:26 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (May all of Saddam's virgins look like Helen Thomas)
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To: DigiLinus
Oh Chemical Ass. We've been hearing this "chatter" threat for months. Chatter Chatter Chatter. Yellow book yellow book yellow book, everywhere I go. The Prez already said if they go Chem we go Nuke. Seems only right to me. Maybe we should just firebomb the dump of a city.

Nice try... but even if they use chemisty it will be tactically irrelevant. We don't need to respond in kind, and I don't think we would. It only complicates the battlefield at this point. Victory is certain, nomatter what they do.

40 posted on 04/02/2003 8:17:28 PM PST by Ramius
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