Please remember these 17-yo Americans who died Nov, Dec 1950, under Truman, to free S. Korea.

[Milligan]

That ain't it!

Saddam still had Pre-Gulf War CW stashed all around Iraq. It was suppose to be declared to the UN after the Gulf War but US forces discovered it after 2003!

The whole country must be chemical dump.


"Santorum said the two-month-old report was prepared by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a military intelligence agency that started looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the Iraq Survey Group stopped doing so in late 2004.

Last year the head of Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, said that insurgents in Iraq had already used old chemical weapons in their attacks.

Nevertheless, "the impression that the Iraqi Survey Group left with the American people was they didn't find anything," Hoekstra said.

"But this says: Weapons have been discovered; more weapons exist. And they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," he said.

Asked just how dangerous the weapons are, Hoekstra said: "One or two of these shells, the materials inside of these, transferred outside of the country, can be very, very deadly."

The report said that the purity of the chemical agents -- and thus their potency -- depends on "many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives, and environmental storage conditions."

"While agents degrade over time, chemical warfare agents remain hazardous and potentially lethal," it said.

Reporters questioned the lawmakers as to why the Bush administration had not played up the report to boost their case for continued warfare in Iraq.

"The administration has been very clear that they want to look forward," Santorum said. "They felt it was not their role to go back and fight previous discussions."

Fear that Saddam Hussein might use his alleged arsenal of chemical and biological weapons was may reason US officials gave for launching the March 2003 invasion of Iraq."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/21/060622014432.acs11f38.html

Though about 500 chemical weapons - the exact number has not been released publicly - have been found, Maples said he doesn't believe Iraq is a "WMD-free zone."

"I do believe the former regime did a very poor job of accountability of munitions, and certainly did not document the destruction of munitions," he said. "The recovery program goes on, and I do not believe we have found all the weapons."

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,103631,00.html?ESRC=coastgnews.RSS

[Milligan]

Making Perfume bottles into CW

Iraq War Truth Squad
Frank Gaffney | June 19, 2006
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,101725,00.html

[syriacus]

On average, a bad month in Iraq would have been a good month in Korea

Number of US deaths, month by month

-------Iraq War------Korean War

65	2,849
73	1,754
37	3,345
30	386
47	3,475
35	2,154
30	657
43	2,068
82	886
40	1,072
47	1,161
19	806
52	314
147	504
88	1,394
44	1,659
61	531
71	221
84	206
68	147
140	175
73	226
108	201
62	484
36	450
52	412
82	619
77	1,017
55	302
85	197
54	173
96	243
88	541
67	310
65	199
56	471
33	1,006
81	7
71	5
61	63
51	52
70	360
76	131
108	129
76	83
	30

[syriacus]

You were unhappy with my choice of months for a comparison between US military deaths in the Iraq War and in the Korean War.

Spurred on by your dissatisfaction, I've composed a rudimentary table which compares the two "wars," month-by-month for close to 4 years.

I think it can be safely said tha, a bad month in Iraq would have been a good month in Korea

Number of US military deaths, month by month

-------Iraq War------Korean War

65	2,849
73	1,754
37	3,345
30	386
47	3,475
35	2,154
30	657
43	2,068
82	886
40	1,072
47	1,161
19	806
52	314
147	504
88	1,394
44	1,659
61	531
71	221
84	206
68	147
140	175
73	226
108	201
62	484
36	450
52	412
82	619
77	1,017
55	302
85	197
54	173
96	243
88	541
67	310
65	199
56	471
33	1,006
81	7
71	5
61	63
51	52
70	360
76	131
108	129
76	83
	30

I hope to do some calculating, to figure out running totals for each war, by month and by year.

It should be interesting. Thank you for the idea!!

[AppyPappy]

One of them is my wife's uncle

[syriacus]

If 3,000 deaths is some "magic cutoff point" for support for a war, Truman should have withdrawn his troops within a couple of months of sending them there.

Correction:

If 3,000 deaths is some "magic cutoff point" for support for a war, Truman should have withdrawn his troops from Korea within 35 days of sending them there.

[EyeGuy]

"Interrupt the flow of the spin."


Indeed. The key to defeating the IdiotLeft is to destroy their basic premises.

Similarly, this same concept writ large, indicates that there is a screaming need for conservative news generation sources. Even a truly conservative national television channel would be just a small step in the proper direction.

The genesis and initial orientation of news stories is where conservatives need to get busy.