WMD's Wases!

[Feif]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

Now, I understand this is from Fox, but they do have a link to a pdf of the actual report...
2pac, let me guess, you think it's all a lie...

Did you actually read the article?

Or just the headline?

[The President]

"Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

Originally Posted by The President

"Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

Oh, I didn't even get that far...as soon as I saw that the article was about a press conference called by Lil' Ricky S., I snickered and stopped.

[Feif]

Originally Posted by Uma Karuna

Did you actually read the article?

Or just the headline?

You mean the part where it says they were manufactured before GW1? Yes, I read that part. But Saddam was supposed to get rid of them. He didn't. Therefore the war was justified.

Originally Posted by Feif

You mean the part where it says they were manufactured before GW1? Yes, I read that part. But Saddam was supposed to get rid of them. He didn't. Therefore the war was justified.

500 degraded munitions manufactured over a decade prior does not justify a war, nor do they constitute a "stockpile."

We probably have that many discarded WMD lying in a garbage pit at any given military base.

If you've convinced yourself that this collection of "WMD" justified the sense of urgency on which Bush sold the war, you're a fool.

[Halfmoon]

Originally Posted by Uma Karuna

Did you actually read the article?

Or just the headline?

Originally Posted by Uma Karuna

Oh, I didn't even get that far...as soon as I saw that the article was about a press conference called by Lil' Ricky S., I snickered and stopped.

[The President]

Originally Posted by Feif

You mean the part where it says they were manufactured before GW1? Yes, I read that part. But Saddam was supposed to get rid of them. He didn't. Therefore the war was justified.

Hey, whatever makes you sleep better at night. This wasn't the WMD program Bush claimed existed.

I have a very hard time believing that you actually think that several thousand expcected deaths resulting from going to war would be worth cleaning up the 500 or so pieces of rusted out toxic waste. I have an even harder time believing you think it is worth the 40 thousand or so Iraqi deaths, and 2500 American lives that are way beyond any predictions that existed before we went in.

Although, maybe I am wrong. You probably would sacrifice a few thousand american lives to kill 50 thousand muslims.

[Fish Actuary]

Originally Posted by Feif

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

Now, I understand this is from Fox, but they do have a link to a pdf of the actual report...
2pac, let me guess, you think it's all a lie...

I'm not sure if this is particularily relevant or not, but from paragraphs 10 and 11 of the article you linked...


Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

Additionally...
On other websites (e.g. fark.com), I've seen it mentioned by others that when Iraq gave it's weapons listings to the UN before the war they mentioned having ~ 550 chemical weapons artillery shells, but were not sure of their location as they had been lost. I'm guessing that these chemical weapons may be the chemical weapons that Iraq admitted they owned.

[ACCtuary]

Saddam was doing something snarky, or he would be been more cooperative with the inspectors.