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2006-06-22 Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2006-06-22 07:49|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 THE LEFT LIED!
Now people die, as the terrorists, who have been defeated upon the battlefield hold out another week, month, year, in hope that each butchery of stage media events will gain their allies in the Democratic Party the power to surrender.

Posted by Glish Chaith1878 2006-06-22 08:51|| 2006-06-22 08:51|| Front Page Top

#2 So, when can we expect a full apology from the MSM, the democrats and the left?

Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-22 09:35|| 2006-06-22 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Being a lefty means never having to say you're sorry. Ever hear them apologize for the hundreds of thousands of boat people who didn't make it? For the million+ Cambodians who died in the third Holocaust of the 20th Century? for the mountains of 10s of millions of human beings sacrificed by Stalin and Mao to the glory of the great socialist revolution? It's never been about principle. It's aways been about power. And all they have to gain that power is to sell you the bill of goods labeled "Sin and Guilt".

Posted by Whinetle Grush9406 2006-06-22 09:53|| 2006-06-22 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I apologize for slavery. There, I said it. And I mean it. I feel your pain.

Posted by w j clinton 2006-06-22 10:20|| 2006-06-22 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 ANSWER lied, people died.

Posted by Korora">Korora 2006-06-22 10:24|| 2006-06-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I QUESTION THE TIMING!

Posted by Anon4021 2006-06-22 10:46|| 2006-06-22 10:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm sure the MSM will be all over this.

on page F-59, lower left, small print....

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-22 11:05|| 2006-06-22 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 All you will hear from the MSM is that they were beyond their "use before" date. Maybe Pinch and his buds can make a little extra ching by storing these, assumably, inert and useless oldies in their basements?

Posted by OyVey1 2006-06-22 11:09|| 2006-06-22 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I still blame Bush

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2006-06-22 11:30|| 2006-06-22 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Besides, Bush Lied was years ago. So the MSM was misinformed. Happens all the time.

they didn't lie; they were misinformed.

Oh, the irony.

Posted by Bobby 2006-06-22 12:20|| 2006-06-22 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Uh, what?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/22.html#a8810

Posted by Anon4021 2006-06-22 13:28|| 2006-06-22 13:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Jim Angle who reported this for Fox News-quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded. And the official went on to say that they are-these are not the WMD's this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had-and not the WMD's for which this country went to war.

Allan Colmes on FNC. Don't hold your breath for that apology.

Posted by Ulomose Shirong2245 2006-06-22 14:07|| 2006-06-22 14:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Bugs and gas manufacturing facilities were in abundance. Attached are links to photo of a "tomato blight research facility" (destroyed by UNSCOM), the Canal Hotel in better times, and lastly the late Dr. Gerald Bull's super cannon.

http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/presspack/prints/34_SAMPLE.JPG

http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/presspack/prints/43_BMVCCOMMS.JPG

http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/presspack/slides/02_super.jpg

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-22 14:41|| 2006-06-22 14:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Instapundit has a roundup.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-22 14:53|| 2006-06-22 14:53|| Front Page Top

#15 From Hotair comments.

http://digg.com/search?search=wmd+found&submit=Submit

There's two stories there.
1 says that Santorum and Foxnews are lying.
The other just links to the Foxnews article.

Digg it if you do that thing.

Posted by Anon4021 2006-06-22 16:45|| 2006-06-22 16:45|| Front Page Top

#16 SARIN gas does not degrade.
This stuff's hot.
Why was it being kept secret ? We don't want the 'insurgents' to get their paws on any of these.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-22 18:50|| 2006-06-22 18:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Scrolling through Instapundit's links, the thinking seems to be that the gas-filled shells were intermixed with regular ones with no markings to differentiate them. And there are weapons dumps all over the country -- they didn't want to give the bad guys a reason to go poking about.

My personal opinion (worth exactly what you just didn't pay for it!) is that they don't want to be distracted by arguing with the Media and the anti-War people about whether or not this relatively little stuff was worth going to war over, when we watched the trucks full of the important stuff head over the border and down to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley just before the invasion.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-22 19:14|| 2006-06-22 19:14|| Front Page Top

#18 I always thought they had WMDs. I mean they had them before and used them on the Kurds and Iranians. I think the question is not whether they had them but "What did they do with them?"

Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-22 20:43|| 2006-06-22 20:43|| Front Page Top

#19 #17,
That became somewhat obvious when they tried using that Sarin 155mm Arty shell as an IED back in 2004?

Seems like Saddam and the Iraqi army liked keeping their chem weapons unlabeled or labeled as pesticide.

The ISG could never figure out why they had stored barrels of pesticide in their ammo dumps. Perhaps Saddam really, REALLY hated roaches.

Posted by Anon4021 2006-06-22 21:06|| 2006-06-22 21:06|| Front Page Top

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