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To: McGavin999
if Saddam didn't mark his chemical weapons, how many times did the weapons inspectors walk right past his stockpiles?

That's what kills me about the inspectors. Did they really expect the WMD would be marked with signs and placards? "THIS WAY TO THE WMD STOCKPILES----> "

I kept trying to have blind faith that the inspectors knew what they were looking for, whether or not it was "properly labeled," but I also kept reading things like "Chemical weapons are painted green" or other such silly nonsense. If they were actually only looking for WMD that were clearly/properly marked, then no wonder they found less than was expected. If I am "the enemy" I'm sure not going to properly label my illegal stuff! But I guess we continue to fool ourselves and think the enemy plays by the same rules that we do.

117 posted on 05/18/2004 10:25:34 AM PDT by BagCamAddict (Nick Berg died because there are EVIL terrorists in the world, and for no other reason.)
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To: BagCamAddict

I could be wrong but I assume a binary warhead looks very different than a dumb bomb nosecone due to the loading areas and different size charge. I would hope that the inspector clouseau's could spot one if they saw one and were not simply looking for green bands. But maybe the RG did not even want their own artillery shooters to know what was in their shells.


124 posted on 05/18/2004 10:31:09 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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