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DrJones*
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Message 13 of 41 (325805)
06-24-2006 7:43 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Tal
06-24-2006 7:18 PM


Re: Black Gold
From your linked article:
Most important, those intelligence officials say "There is no evidence today of any post-1991 WMD munitions," that is, munitions that were produced after U.N. inspections and sanctions began after Operation Desert Storm in early 1991.
The threshold for labeling something WMD in this world is low, if it exists at all. Many of the "chemical munitions" found in Iraq were even "unfilled" shells. That is, they had never been filled with chemical agent, according to the summary. But, as Rumsfeld says, "they are weapons of mass destruction."
Yup those WMD sure are/were a threat.

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DrJones*
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Message 16 of 41 (325821)
06-24-2006 8:11 PM
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06-24-2006 8:04 PM


Re: Black Gold
The simple fact Iraq used chemical munitions on the Kurds never seems to get mentioned any time the "no WMDS in Iraq" flock of chickens start squawking.
The claim was that Saddam had an active WMD program, not that he had leftovers from the Iran-Iraq war. To say that old and sometimes empty chemical shells constituted a threat to the US and thus justified an invasion is a load of bullshit.

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