Darn Danes

[Rockhound]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ortar_shells_8

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Danish and Icelandic troops have uncovered a cache of 36 shells buried in the Iraqi desert, and preliminary tests showed they contained a liquid blister agent, the Danish military said.

I can't wait to hear our favorite anti-American posters:

"But this doesn't count, those Dane's are just shills for Bush"

or

"But this doesn't count, when we said WMD's we didn't count chemical weapons"

or

"But this doesn't count, when we said 'stockpiles' they had to be stockpiles established withing 2 months of us going to war".

[2pac Shakur]

The shells were wrapped in plastic but had been damaged, and they appeared to have been buried for at least 10 years, the statement said.

[Rockhound]

Originally Posted by 2Pac Shakur

So you chose door number 3.

[2pac Shakur]

I think we were 45 minutes away from having those 10 year old leaky shells from landing in New York.
Along with that tube of botulism and the nuke piece buried in the guys garden, quite an arsenal we've found.
Well worth 500 soldiers dying.

(By the way, supporting the deaths of 500 soldiers over an illegal invasion - that's anti American. Questioning your leaders is as democratic and American as it gets.)

[Rockhound]

Originally Posted by 2Pac Shakur

I think we were 45 minutes away from having those 10 year old leaky shells from landing in New York.
Along with that tube of botulism and the nuke piece buried in the guys garden, quite an arsenal we've found.
Well worth 500 soldiers dying.

(By the way, supporting the deaths of 500 soldiers over an illegal invasion - that's anti American. Questioning your leaders is as democratic and American as it gets.)

Results of Iraq war:

Removed one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, since Joseph Stalin.

Seriously restricted flow of funds and training programs of terrorist groups.

Shut off development of WMD's.

Took cache's of WMD's out of the hands of said dictator.

Oh, and for good measure, by showing the world that we will stand up to terrorism, got Libya to surrender WMD's as well.


"Illegal". I suggest you read your consitution.

[SideSwipe]

Seriously restricted flow of funds and training programs of terrorist groups.

really?

[The Mad Hatter]

Originally Posted by SideSwipe

really?

Yeah, Al Qaeda is on run because we attacked Iraq. And oooh! 10+ year old mustard gas buried underground. Surely this is why Iraq was such a threat to us. After all, what it they had dug up those shells and given them to terrorists?

[Plato]

Originally Posted by Rockhound

Results of Iraq war:

Removed one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, since Joseph Stalin.

Largely because he was a pushover and couldn't fight back. Never dared to remove Stalin or Mao who were mutiple times more ruthless measured by millions of innocents killed.

Seriously restricted flow of funds and training programs of terrorist groups.

Not really. Read al Jazeera to get a sense of how the story is playing out in the free press.I think by embarassing Arabs, we have created new flows. Iraq did not have serious money anyway given the sanctions and lack of oil sales. But a few friendly donations from Saudi Arabia and other can more than make up the difference.

Shut off development of WMD's.

What development?

Took cache's of WMD's out of the hands of said dictator.

Decades old leftovers shells from a forgotten local war. This was supposed to stop the US army? You can probably do more damage to United States with a credit card, an airline ticket, and a boxcutter.

Oh, and for good measure, by showing the world that we will stand up to terrorism, got Libya to surrender WMD's as well.

Now you're getting closer. The US is throwing its weight around and saying don't get me mad or else. Legalites won't matter. And I don't think it's really aimed at terrorists--when has the US expressed any interest or plans to go after the suicide bombers in Sri Lanka, the Basque separatists, the Northern Irish, or the Corsicans.

It is much clearer today that "fighting terrorists" has been a smokescreen for the real foreign policy in Iraq, link or no link to Osama Bin Ladin -- which was mapped out months before September 11. Ask ex-Bush administration officials who are willing to talk and have the minutes of government meetings to prove it.

We may have bagged a ruthless dictator, but please don't characterize this as a great victory in the war on terrorism. Bagging Osama Bin Laden --now that would have been a real victory in the war on terrorism, assuming he has not already been caught before the Iraq war started.

But we must be patient; it will take many more months to "catch" him--I would expect to see his capture announced on our TV screens, depending on how the election campaign is going --oh, perhaps--about a week before the presidential elections.

[SamChevre]

Not really.

Haven't you noticed that the homicide bombings in Israel have slowed down (from 5 in May to only 1 in each of November and December), now that the families of the bombers no longer get $25,000 from Saddam?

[Plato]

Originally Posted by SamChevre

Haven't you noticed that the homicide bombings in Israel have slowed down (from 5 in May to only 1 in each of November and December), now that the families of the bombers no longer get $25,000 from Saddam?

If the flow of funds to terrorists is gone, who's paying the suicide bombers in Iraq--the ones blowing up Americans?