<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by D2bets:
This has to be the 4th or 5th time that suspected weapons have later turned out negative. I think they figure if they float these every now and then and then just bury the final true results that people will just assume WMD's were found one of these times.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Sounds like global warming and the Kyoto agreement fraud...keep repeating until it is believed.
Just about everyone believed Sadaam had weapons of mass destruction. The democrats can harp all they want about the missing WMD, but they should remember far more Iraqis died because of the sanctions than in the 2nd Gulf war. Is the left prepared to condemn those deaths as well? If the 2nd Gulf war was a fraud, then so were the sanctions.
This has to be the 4th or 5th time that suspected weapons have later turned out negative. I think they figure if they float these every now and then and then just bury the final true results that people will just assume WMD's were found one of these times.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Sounds like global warming and the Kyoto agreement fraud...keep repeating until it is believed.
Just about everyone believed Sadaam had weapons of mass destruction. The democrats can harp all they want about the missing WMD, but they should remember far more Iraqis died because of the sanctions than in the 2nd Gulf war. Is the left prepared to condemn those deaths as well? If the 2nd Gulf war was a fraud, then so were the sanctions.
Just for the record ...
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Lab: Iraq mortar shells had no chemical agents
Initial investigation suggested shells once contained blister gas
(Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - An Idaho lab has released conclusive results showing 36 mortar shells recently unearthed in southern Iraq contained no chemical warfare agent, the Danish army said Sunday.
Initial examinations by Danish and British troops had indicated a blister agent was in the shells, which apparently date to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. The shells were found north of Basra on Jan. 9.
But tests by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho came back negative, the Danish Army Operational Command said in a statement. The results confirmed earlier findings by a U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group that was dispatched to the site in southern Iraq after the shells were found.
The 120mm shells, with no markings of origin, were found by Danish engineers and two Icelandic de-miners who were tipped off by local residents.
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The hunt for the elusive WMD goes on (but of course we don't ever need to find them; everybody knows Saddam needed to be ousted because he was a tyrant and in violation of UN directives and gassed folks and cheated at Bingo and really, who ever said anything about WMD's anyway? It's not like Colin Powell got up in front of the UN and declared definitively that Hussein was in possession of WMD's and working to develop nukes, or anything.)
Phaedrus
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>
Lab: Iraq mortar shells had no chemical agents
Initial investigation suggested shells once contained blister gas
(Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - An Idaho lab has released conclusive results showing 36 mortar shells recently unearthed in southern Iraq contained no chemical warfare agent, the Danish army said Sunday.
Initial examinations by Danish and British troops had indicated a blister agent was in the shells, which apparently date to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. The shells were found north of Basra on Jan. 9.
But tests by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho came back negative, the Danish Army Operational Command said in a statement. The results confirmed earlier findings by a U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group that was dispatched to the site in southern Iraq after the shells were found.
The 120mm shells, with no markings of origin, were found by Danish engineers and two Icelandic de-miners who were tipped off by local residents.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
The hunt for the elusive WMD goes on (but of course we don't ever need to find them; everybody knows Saddam needed to be ousted because he was a tyrant and in violation of UN directives and gassed folks and cheated at Bingo and really, who ever said anything about WMD's anyway? It's not like Colin Powell got up in front of the UN and declared definitively that Hussein was in possession of WMD's and working to develop nukes, or anything.)
Phaedrus
