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Re: WMD (apologies if this has been covered)

Yesterday Rummy said it would take DAYS for the samples to get back to the US to run the full tests, etc.

Within hours, the reporters were saying "Nevermind, initial tests proven wrong, it turned out it wasn't chemicals after all, it was just pesticides."

A few points:
1. Pesticides ARE chemicals.
2. Pesticides can be WMD.
3. Can you say Agent Orange??
4. WMD are CERTAINLY Pesticides... you think Mustard Gas doesn't affect ants, bees, mice, rats, etc??
5. "Pesticide" is generic. The specific pesticides are Insecticides, Herbicides, and Rodenticides. (Agent Orange, a defoliant, was an Herbicide.)

The reports that this site did NOT have WMD after all are simply SPIN. If it takes DAYS to get the samples back to the US for testing, then how did they know the tests were negative within just HOURS? And, by the way, this is my field, so I know it does take time to do conclusive and quantitative chemical analyses. So don't worry, we are going to have a "12,000 page report" on our WMD findings when this is all over.