[shrinkermd]

I excerpted some non-essentials on the memo.

[ADemocratNoMore]

I posted this about a month ago in a different thread on the same topic...

I wonder what the repercussions of our acknowledgment of being in control of a large stockpile of WMD would be in terms of the problems involved with their disposal. If you read the article by Ion Mihai Pacepa, a Romanian, who is the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc, here...

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030820-081256-6822r.htm

In the article, he states "All chemical weapons were to be immediately burned or buried deep at sea... Chemical weapons, especially those produced in Third World countries,which lack sophisticated production facilities, often do not retain lethal properties after a few months on the shelf and are routinely dumped anyway. (A note here... not retaining lethal properties does not mean that the chemicals have turned benign, just that it may now take a gallon of the stuff to do what a drop would formerly do).

All well and good for the Soviets or their clients, but...

Our forces would certainly have custody of the inventory and would therefore be expected to handle its disposal. Do you really think we would get a pass on dumping at sea or old fashioned burning?. I think not. If memory serves. at the end of the first Gulf War, we blew a huge stockpile of chemical munitions in place and exposure to the low level residuals from the combustion products were being blamed for Gulf War Syndrome.

Before you know it, we'll be expected to build one of those billion dollar incinerators like we use to destroy our domestic stocks of chemical weapons. We'll have to pass EPA inspections and file environmental impact studies, then deal with N.I.M.B.Y lawsuits and in a few years the neighbors will be suing us and not Sadam over cancer clusters. Also, won't that facility be an uber terrorist magnet, not to mention the convoys hauling stuff from stockpiles from all over the country?.

Maybe thats one of the reasons we want to leave 'em where they are. Quite frankly, I trust this administration to do what it thinks is right for our Country and it's national security, and it appears that they have weighed the political benefit of exposing the existence of the WMDs vs. the present stance. I, for one, applaud an administration that is willing to take a political hit while it does what is best for our security, for whatever reasons, which I, as a civilian may never know.

Just a thought.

[shield]

NOT ALL OF IT. See this site, Federal Agent says a number of sites were never even looked into. He had intel of WMD's at these sites. http://www.davegaubatz.com/index.html

[Candor7]

ANY BETS THAT SOME OF THOSE WMD ARE IN LEBANON?

Why does Koffi want 72 hour hiatus?

So the Hezzies can get them BACK to Syria before the whole world finds out?

[Lexinom]

I knew this over two years ago from an article in the Dutch publication De Telegraf.

[alienken]

This needs to be posted and reposted.Freepers get out the news when the MSM will not.

[rfreedom4u]

I shudder to think what would happen if the WMD's get into Hezbollah's hands from Syria. I guess Syria would dedicate the song "You Light Up My Life" to Israel.

[PghBaldy]

Part of the reason this is important is Dems will use the mistaken belief that NO WMD were found to hamper or block action against Iran. They will say we had bad intel there, we have bad intel on Iran. EVEN if they agree Iran is working toward nukes, they'll say it is not an "imminent threat," and not allow action to go forward.

[M. Espinola]

The question is will Assad and the Iranians be dumb enough to use Saddam's former WMD on Northern Israel? If so Damascus will be reduced to rubble and Tehran the same.

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Nasrallah threatens to fire missiles at central Israel

By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed to fire rockets on communities in central Israel if the military operation in Lebanon continued, and accused Israel of being an American "slave."

"The bombardment of Afula and its military base is the beginning ... Many
cities in the center [of Israel] will be targeted in the 'beyond Haifa' phase if the savage aggression continues on our country, people and villages," Nasrallah said in a speech aired on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television.

Read the rest here

[Rembrandt]

No one ever seems to remember that Hussein took the extreme step of burying MIG aircraft in the desert. Any clues there as to his mode of thinking?

[MaineVoter2002]

Im not surprised

http://www.moveamericaforward.org/Video/MAFO7438-HI.wmv