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2014-05-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Western Intel: Assad may have secret ChemWar stockpile

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Posted by Pappy 2014-05-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Of course PencilNeck has a secret chemwar stockpile. Who doesn't nowadays? Come on, admit it. You all do.

Posted by SteveS 2014-05-06 02:04|| 2014-05-06 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, I had about 1200 micrograms stashed in the fishcamp freezer that I was saving for the first manned Mars Landing, but nature intervened, as it will.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-06 05:03|| 2014-05-06 05:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Within the U.S. intelligence community, there's also lingering unease about the Assad regime's biological weapons program that has never been the focus of international inspections and that American officials confess they just don't have the resources to track down.

Best funded intelligence service in the world also missed 9/11, PAK nuclear weapons development, and the Boston Bombing.

Money won't fix it. Quit asking.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-06 05:20|| 2014-05-06 05:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Assad MIGHT have a stockpile of unicorns.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-05-06 05:37|| 2014-05-06 05:37|| Front Page Top

#5 The threat and argument against Assad must grow if the Benghazi 'executive privilege' default must come into play. We'd like to tell you more about it, but trust us, you really don't want to know.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-06 06:10|| 2014-05-06 06:10|| Front Page Top

#6 My favorite part:

Such allegations inevitably evoke comparisons with the bogus intelligence used to justify the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. There is the critical difference that in this case the U.S. administration is not looking for a pretext to go to war. Indeed, far from it.

I'm not sure if it's a blatant partisan suck-up, or a perverse endorsement of the concept. But then again, it is from the online roadkill that was Newsweek.

Posted by Pappy 2014-05-06 09:57|| 2014-05-06 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Such allegations inevitably evoke comparisons with the bogus intelligence used to justify the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

It was not "bogus intelligence" I can assure you. Saddam ignored dozens of UN resolutions, and denied access to inspectors. Tons of chemical warfare munitions were destroyed by UN teams.

On August 19, 2003, at 4:45 p.m. local time, a truck bomb exploded outside the Canal Hotel, the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad. The top United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian national, was killed during the explosion. Trapped inside the rubble of the damaged building, Mr. Vieira de Mello had been able to communicate via his cellular telephone before dying of his injuries.

Following the bombing of the Canal Hotel, the UN inspections were terminated.

Saddam was a murdering bastard. Many are alive today because he is gone. We should all be glad he is dead.

Point of trivia. Following his execution, his coffin and lifeless body arrived at FOB Speicher in the middle of the night aboard a US Army UH-60. He was buried in nearby Tikrit, his ancestral home.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-06 17:09|| 2014-05-06 17:09|| Front Page Top

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