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

Posted on 01/02/2007 9:05:40 AM PST by syriacus

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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


41 posted on 01/03/2007 1:15:48 PM PST by Milligan (THERE IS A CONNECTION)
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To: 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


42 posted on 01/03/2007 1:39:17 PM PST by Milligan (THERE IS A CONNECTION)
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To: 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

43 posted on 01/05/2007 6:16:04 AM PST by syriacus (Iraq War is like the Korean War - but with a GOP prez, 10% of the deaths, an antagonistic MSM)
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To: Panzerfaust
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!!

44 posted on 01/05/2007 6:23:12 AM PST by syriacus (Iraq War is like the Korean War - but with a GOP prez, 10% of the deaths, an antagonistic MSM)
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To: Chi-townChief

One of them is my wife's uncle


45 posted on 01/05/2007 6:24:14 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: 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.

46 posted on 01/05/2007 6:30:17 AM PST by syriacus (Iraq War is like the Korean War - but with a GOP prez, 10% of the deaths, an antagonistic MSM)
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To: bannie

"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.


47 posted on 01/05/2007 6:37:48 AM PST by EyeGuy
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