does anyone in the media ever do any research?
i saw David Kay on one of the talk shows tonight ... he said that the sarin gas they found was undoubtedly part of a small, left over supply from around 1991 ...
but if that's true, and I have no reason to doubt it isn't, then the gas is well beyond its shelf life ...
read this from an article written over a year ago on May 8, 2003 ...
source:
http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=15854Strangely, the U.S. media have, with almost no exceptions, failed to mention that most bio/chemical agents have a rather limited shelf life. The few who do usually quote Scott Ritter, former UN Iraqi weapons inspector and controversial opponent of Dubya’s drive to Baghdad.
According to Ritter, the chemical weapons which Iraq has been known to possess -- nerve agents like sarin and tabun -- have a shelf life of five years, VX just a bit longer. Saddam's major bio weapons are hardly any better; botulinum toxin is potent for about three years, and liquid anthrax about the same (under the right conditions). And he adds that since all chemical weapons were made in Iraq's only chemical weapons complex – the Muthanna State establishment, which was blown up during the first Gulf War in 1991 --and all biological weapons plants and research papers were clearly destroyed by 1998, any remaining bio/chemical weapons stores are now “harmless, useless goo.”
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