It's the giant sand fleas that are the real pests. And the oversized mosquitoes, the largest of which sometimes attempt to mate with Iraqi military helicopters.
Posted on 06/04/2003 6:47:53 AM PDT by HatSteel
It makes perfect sense given weapon-side mixing of chem and bio.
It would be like the cops looking for amphetamines and ignoring the discovery of a production lab with all the precursor chemicals --- just because at that point in time there weren't any fully prepared amphetamines on site!
But cops are FAR smarter than democRATs.
WARNING: Gathering WMD storm a crock. See what Clinton told nation in 1998...
THE ROAD ENDS FOR WMD ON WHEELS
Coalition forces enter possible WMD site
Initial tests suggest WMD "cocktail" found in Iraq (**Of special note--post #58, by Archy)
U.S. finds new evidence of Iraqi WMD (NBC training school, antidotes)
Chem-weapons lab believed discovered
BRITS' CHILLING CHEM-NUKE FIND
CAPTURED FOES FOUND WITH CHEM-WAR GEAR
MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River
Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts?
U.S. probing nuclear facility (Al Tuwaitha Follow Up)
Team Inspects suspected plutonium site (update by the journalist who broke original story, NEW info)
Underground Nuclear Facility Found in Iraq
Marines hold Iraqi nuclear site built by French
U.S. Marines Guard Secret Iraqi City with Very Hot Nuclear Radiation Levels
These are some I found, but it should also be mentioned that a search on "chem" "nuclear" "nuke" and "WMD" will turn up many more. Also "plutonium."
It would be like the cops looking for amphetamines and ignoring the discovery of a production lab with all the precursor chemicals --- just because at that point in time there weren't any fully prepared amphetamines on site!
IRAQ: Irrigation problems could affect grain crop in southern Iraq: FAO
And this:
IRAQ: It’s Springtime in Baghdad
And see post #8 by sharktrager !!!!!!!
“In fact, it protects them from insects, because we can’t afford to buy the pesticides or the proper soil.”
So who was buying the pesticides?
Here's what I've got so far. *** = Important
Terrorist devices, chemical weapons found in Iraq
Suspicious Iraqi Drums - UPDATE
Suspected bioweapons labs found
Searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Larry Elder
Iraq's Weapons and the Road to War
Iraqi Scientist Links Weapons to 'Dual Use' Facilities, White House Says
IRAQ: U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms
Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert
Herald Sun: Soldiers find Iraqi chemical 'dump'
***Germany's leading role in arming Iraq
*Germany intercepts (30 tonnes) chemicals (may be used to make nerve gas) for N Korea
New DOD team to hunt for intel as well as weapons
Capture of chemical expert could help U.S. weapons hunt in Iraq (Emad Husayn Abdulla al-Ani)
Belgium Finds Nerve Gas Ingredient in Letters
Banned missile programme found in Iraq
Administration to Announce 'Rollback' Strategy for WMD
Suspicious Iraqi Drums Preliminary Testing Suggests Chemical Agents; More Testing Needed
Close, but not quite; recent *binary* chemical agents are quite usable in their unmixed form and require no additional mixing or preparation for field troops to use. They're just capable of depot-level storage in a semi-ready seperated state, unlike the meth lab, in which it's intended to continue on to the next stage of production, since partially processed materials decline in purity as they draw nitrogen and moisture [hygroscopicity] once exposed to the air. -archy-/-
No problem; glad you remenbered. But note *this one* as well.
-archy-/-
It's the giant sand fleas that are the real pests. And the oversized mosquitoes, the largest of which sometimes attempt to mate with Iraqi military helicopters.
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