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Schadow · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: Breaking: WMD found, lots of 'em

Senator Santorum reveals the unclassified summary of a recently classified Pentagon report. At least 500 munitions containing degraded liquid mustard gas and Sarin have been recovered in Iraq. The 500 number includes some projectiles not loaded with agent (estimated at about 25% of the 500).

Santorum will expand on this tonight on Hannity & Colms.

(From Fox News broadcasts)

Edit: Seems that these were Iran-Iraq war leftovers. If true, this will provide some fig leaf for Dems.

Schadow
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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

If nothing else, this stuff was what Sadam was supposed to have destroyed and reported destroyed, so this proves he didn't.

And somehow or another none of those weapons inspection teams found it, either.

It's probably not the "silver bullet" we all want (I personally think those are in Syria), but it's not inconsequential either. But of course the MSM will try to minimize it.

Schadow

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Schadow · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

dusty · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

Last night on Hannity and Colmes Shawn got what's his nuts....Al Sharpton to say that he would apologize to President Bush for calling him a liar if the reports about the WMDs are true.
Ya'll reckon we should hold our breaths waiting for that apology?

Dusty
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jwb7605 · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

Schadow · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Also on H&C last night, LGen McInerney (USAF, ret.) reiterated the story related by a Saddam defector (whose name I can't remember) about eleventh-hour panic shipments of the bulk of WMD to locations in Syria and the Bakaa Valley of Lebanon. There seems to be strong evidence that Russia, France and perhaps China participated in the transport. McInerney is a level-headed troop with lingering connections to DOD and probably would not repeat this if not a feasible scenario.

He also pointed out that this caper, if true, could give the Bush administration a migrain or two. Three "allies", all members of the UN Insecurity Council? Good grief.

Schadow
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dusty · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject:

Allies.....schmilies. Those allies are patting us on the back with one hand and plunging the dagger in deep with the other.

Their duplicity is too evident in their actions to be ignored or dismissed.
When are we going to start calling a spade a spade and quit pussyfooting around. Diplomacy is one thing. Being stupid is not good diplomacy.

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tiptie · Lt.Jg. Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 138 Location: Colorado

When talking about how lethal these WMDs are, I think of the Pueblo Chemical Depot. I was a kid when it was the Pueblo Army Depot.......during WW2.

Just do a Google on this subject. Here is one.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/pueblo.htm

Do a Google Earth and you can find an aerial view of these thousand igloos. 38 degrees, 20’52.74 N and 104 degrees 18’57.61”. In the upper right section is the secure area with American and Russian signs all over the place. Up until a few years ago, you could drive onto this complex. It is closed again.

They have yet to come up with a viable means of disposing of these munitions. They may be “degraded” in terms of their chemical condition or the casings themselves, but they are still very nasty. The incinerator method has been on hold for a very long time. Our family farm is about 5 miles south of the facility and there are gas detectors spread out all over the place in case of leakage of the chemicals in their current state or if the proposed incinerator leaks.

All residents within a 10 mile radius have special radio receivers that would be used to broadcast alerts if there were any leakage from the incinerator.

Everything is on hold regarding the incinerator because of environmentalists and their concerns.

As previous posters have said, this stuff is nasty. I don’t care how old it is.
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LewWaters · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

As was brought on Rush this morning, if these WMDs found are so aged that the left feels they are mostly ineffective now, why did the left raise such cain about similar munitions being stored throughout the US a few years ago? Seems they felt they were pretty dangerous then.

Schadow · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject:

Schadow · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: