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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:07 PM
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Has anyone heard anything new about the WMD in Iraq???
I'm waiting for the Sarin to turn out to be jack shit.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:08 PM
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1. it didn't last 2 news cycles, so must be nothing to it n/t
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durutti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:08 PM
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2. No...
I keep hearing conflicting reports regarding the sarin, and I haven't heard anything else at all about the mustard gas. It's very irritating.
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freeforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:08 PM
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3. I haven't heard anything but...
there are no WMD in Iraq (unless you count the coalition troops).
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:11 PM
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4. Any WMD's that turn up now...
...are likely to be planted or totally bogus. Our inspectors said there are NO WMD's in Iraq. We need to start looking for WMD's on out own soil here in the U.S.
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vpigrad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:11 PM
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5. I don't feel there was any.
The experts already spoke-out, and said there wasn't.
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TexasProgresive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:12 PM
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6. You mean the US Army and the CIA-
they're the only real weapons of mass destruction in Iraq read Kathy Kelly's latest at Common Dreams -

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0519-08.htm

I won’t forget that one of the FBI agents mentioned seeing pictures of Iraqi children on the VitW website. I’m grateful to him for remembering them. I feel haunted by the infants, the toddlers, the young teens and their heartbroken mothers and fathers whom we met at bedside after bedside in Iraqi hospitals. Walking on the oval track, here in prison, I whisper the names and recall the sweet faces of the little ones I grew to know, fleetingly. All of them were condemned to death. None of them were bad apples. They were fine fruits of loving families. Hundreds of thousands died,--some after many days of writhing pain on bloodstained mats, without pain relievers. Some died quickly, wasted by water-borne diseases; as the juices ran out of their bodies, they appeared like withered, spoiled fruits. But no, they weren’t bad apples. They could have lived, certainly should have lived, --and laughed and danced, and run and played—but somehow,--honestly, I don’t understand it—somehow they were sacrificed, brutally and lethally punished to death.

Their pictures, each of their stories, had something to say to us. If US people had seen their images, day after day, the economic sanctions would never would never have lasted long enough to claim the lives of over ½ million children under age five. These Iraqi children who couldn’t survive abysmally failed foreign policies still have something to say to us.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:13 PM
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7. We should have just offered to pay them 10 billion for their old WMD's.
Could have saved a lot of money, lives, and a big headache.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:14 PM
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8. Here is what I dont get...
Why are repugs rejoicing? The shell was from the Iraq/Iran war, which means Regan probably sold it to them. They are not the WMD that Bush threatened Iraq had before the war. The "Sarin" from what I have read was probably harmless because it has a short shelf life. If it is not harmless that means that the terrorists, or insurgents now have chemical weapons.

Where is the upside for them?
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:15 PM
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9. I don't know about you
But some of the pukes I know are pissing their pants in joy over the single artillery shell found. I can't believe these bastards! ONE, neglected shell, which barely even harmed two soldiers, left over from Poppy's war, is stirring such ecstasy in the right wing? JCA, this is just another diversion to take away from Abu Ghraib, to take away from the probability that the Berg killing was CIA ordered, and to take away from all the other shit that the BFEE has been doing for the past three and a half years!!! I love Karl Rove. I honestly do--who else in the world has the ability to turn all the shit that's supposed to be hitting the fan into pure sweet whipped cream instead? Who else has the power to make the CIA do his bidding, who has the unique ability to remain unstained from all the many, many scandals that have been tied to this regime? Who else has the ability to spin events to the point where Bush and his regime are still hitting the 50% mark for them in polls? Who else has managed to keep so much of this regime's shit shrouded in secrecy to the point where Richard Nixon actually comes out nearly as innocent as George "I never tell a lie" Washington?

My god, the stench from the white house is overpowering, but Rove manages to stick nose plugs in the noses of half the country while they're not looking, so that they smell and suspect absolutely nothing.
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markomalley Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:26 PM
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10. Here's one from 3 hrs ago:
Edited on Wed May-19-04 09:29 PM by markomalley
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salib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 09:31 PM
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11. Here are the WMD in Iraq
http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/new-weapons.cfm

When you are killing as many as possible of some people you have targeted as "the enemy" with "state-of-the-art" technology, that is WMD.
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