Guest guest Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 I'll bet you didn't see that on mainstream tv! [ggg] .. .. > > Posted by: " Chuck B " gumboyaya@... > <mailto:gumboyaya@...?Subject=%20Re%3A%20Backfired> > gumbo482001 <gumbo482001> > > > Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:55 am (PDT) > > > > Nancie, > > You wrote: > > > > They never stated explicitly there were CONFIRMED WMD.... > > In a sense, that is true. I was shocked when better proof was not > presented to the world before beginning military action. That was > handled very badly and Gen. was quite right to have felt used. I > remembered a previous example of how carefully classified pictures were > shown of missile installations in Cuba before JFK ordered a blockade. > That was a very different approach. > > OTOH, the U.N. resolutions clearly assumed there were gas weapons that > were supposed to have been destroyed. The inspectors were called for to > verify Saddam's claims that these weapons had been destroyed and were > not simply hidden somewhere. Since the U.S. had supplied or verified > many of those shipments during the Iran/Iraq war, everyone, including > the U.N., knew with certainty that over 1,000 tons of these weapons had > once existed. Plus, immediately prior to the invasion, the U.N. found > out that Iraq had just ordered 1.25 million doses of an antidote for > nerve agents from a supplier in Turkey. What do you suppose that was for? > > The U.N. also knew that Iraq had previously attempted to smuggle 40 > krytron detonators for nuclear weapons and had built a large complex for > isotope separation, including the very inefficient Calutrons, that no > one would have suspected were being used for that purpose until after > the first Gulf War. That was all " confirmed. " > > We now know all the chemical weapons had in fact NOT been destroyed. > Destruction of about 40 tons of dangerously unstable Sarin gas had been > documented. However, the binary forms were much more stable, and > destruction of only a small token amount of these had been documented. > Some had been used against the Kurds or in test releases. Others were > stored poorly and allowed to rust to the point that they no longer > constituted a threat. In 2003, captured documents also verified that > Iraq had successfully weaponized VX in 1989 and used three such weapons > against Iran. Saddam had admitted working with this agent to UNSCOM, but > claimed they had failed to weaponize it due to equipment failures. > > Several small stockpiles of mustard and Sarin gas were in fact found in > Iraq about two years after the regime change, before Saddam's execution, > but the press generally failed to note it. Consequently, they continue > to assert there were _NO_ WMDs, when in fact there were simply no large > stockpiles of fully operational WMDs. > > Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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