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2004-01-12 Iraq

Update: Denmark Tests Chemical on Iraqi Shells

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-01-12 1:53:11 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 1. Of course it's mustard gas
2. Already brushed off as relics 'buried 15 years ago during/after the Iran-Iraq war'
3. If they found a soccer stadium filled with nuclear warheads, the unconvinced would remain so.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-12 1:58:58 PM|| 2004-1-12 1:58:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 agree with you on every point there anonymous,the only way the anti war whacko's will realise there are chemical nastys there is if you dipped thier dumb face in a vat of the stuff,even then they'd claim its just 'funny' water.how i pity these people for thier blind blinkered vision.

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-12 2:20:18 PM|| 2004-1-12 2:20:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll lay odds that we'll be finding scads of WMD in Iraq 14 to 21 days before the November 2004 election. It may explain why the administration doesn't jump on every single piece of WMD evidence coming out of Iraq like a pack of Deaniacs in the soybean products aisle. They're timing it. Heh heh heh.

Posted by pdq332 2004-1-12 2:20:38 PM|| 2004-1-12 2:20:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 pdq332, I don't think Bush and company are holding anything back. It would have been too easy to plant weapons early on. When things got ugly with regards to uranium during the summer, a more "creative" administration would have gone into spin mode then. Even now it would still be easy to announce that the weapons are in Syria and capture some of Assad's stash and declare it Sadaam's. Instead Condi is still saying that we have no evidence that the weapons were moved.

It would be interesting to know what type of clean-up effort the Russian representatives helped Sadaam out with prior to evacuating, but their too professional to have left a bunch of looses threads to track.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-12 2:38:20 PM|| 2004-1-12 2:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 pdq332 yea and a black helicopter flew over your house last night.....

everyone just get over the wmd case - yes they are in the middle east but it is not the main reason we went - we needed to inject ourselves right in the middle of our enemies.
Unfortuneltly Bush stressed WMD because the left is too stupid to realize when our national security is truly jeopordised.

Posted by Dan 2004-1-12 2:42:53 PM|| 2004-1-12 2:42:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Icelandic troops
? Figure they're good.... but who knew?

Hail Fredonia Happy Land!

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-12 3:24:43 PM|| 2004-1-12 3:24:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 But, but, how can this be? Surely whatever's in those warheads is not dangerous by now? I thought they had a short shelf life.

Posted by Anonymous2u 2004-1-12 8:49:54 PM|| 2004-1-12 8:49:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 A2U, many chemical agents have a short shelf life, but mustard gas lasts and lasts.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-12 9:32:40 PM|| 2004-1-12 9:32:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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