MSNBC: Huge weapons cache found -- possible chemical cannisters

[Winston_Wolf]

... You should be excited. This is a genuine binary chemical dispensing canister. The Cyrillic markings indicate Russian origin. I just hope we get one opened and tested ASAP. If nothing else, it proves Saddam's intent.

[mewzilla]

It's not like they'd buy the shells for show. There's something to put in them if they're not already filled. We just have to find it.

[Yardstick]

Yeah, the real McCoys are probably hidden, unlikely to be found by our troops going about their normal business. It'll probably take some focused searching. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if we've already found some chem/bio and are just waiting for the right time to reveal it. I think it will be more of a "strategic" revelation than a "tactical" one.

[sd-joe]

>>"Why is MSNBC breaking all these chem stories? Why is FOX apparently behind on this?"<<

MSNBC does have the whole NBC worldwide news organization to draw from, which despite their political slant, is an effective and expensive news gathering organization.

[Bill Davis FR]

no wonder russia was against the war...

[coder2]

Why is MSNBC breaking all these chem stories? Why is FOX apparently behind on this? Is it just "the luck of the draw" and who happens to be with which unit when it comes across something like this?

JMHO, but I'm thinking that FOX tries to check, double-check & triple-check before they put something on the air --- I have heard Shep Smith say something similar before. So if one of their team wasn't with the troops that found this, FOX would try to verify it before they broadcast it.

JMHO --- I could be wrong...

[ConservativeLawyer]

LOL! Nice picture, Hans.

[RKV]

MSNBC and others are setting up another story. After the war, when no actual nuclear, bio or chem agents are found in Iraq (they are in Syria now) then its going to be - "the war was wrong because we found no actual chemical weapons, only delivery systems and gas masks." Some useful idiots will buy this line of bs.

[coder2]

Unfortunately, I believe you are right...

[KansasCanadian]

Send all Russian made weapons to Chechnya

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

and vlad so thats why you didnt have a hissy fit when we pulled out of the abm treaty you sneaky devil oh and by the way that 2.5 billion in aid just not gonna happen

[Pearls Before Swine]

Send all Russian made weapons to Chechnya

Seems like poetic justice, but its a bad idea. Pre-afghanistan, I would have agreed. Since then, we've found Saudis in Chechnya, and Chechnyan Islamists everywhere else, all using training originally supplied by us against the Russians. Let's not go there again. Ultimately, we and the Russians would be better co-operating.

I know the last sentence is a stretch, given Russia's history of the last centurty.

[pitinkie]

I looove caviar!

[ex-Texan]

The Axis of Weasels applauds Russian sales of chemical weapons to Iraq.

BUMP !

[Jim Noble]

>>oh and by the way that 2.5 billion in aid just not gonna happen<<

As Dad would say, "Wouldn't be prudent"...

[PISANO]

Fox News has the EXCLUSIVE video footage of the trek into Baghdad last night. He is the ONLY TV journalist imbedded with the Brigade that went in. There is a print journalist and a radio journalist with them also but according to FOX they have got the only footage of the incursion.

[demnomo]

If true, I'll bet that Pooty Poot did more than just "poot" in his pants...

[RKV]

Yes so. The camp was not under the control of the Baathist regime and amounts found were trivial. The only thing which will silence the UN loving transnational progressives is large quantities of NBC weapons found in Iraq. Even then they will deny and obfuscate - perhaps claiming that the materials were planted. No, what we need is a clear case with "Made In France" labeling.