Iraq chemical weapons: pre-1991 vintage and degraded

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:06 PM
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Iraq chemical weapons: pre-1991 vintage and degraded

Iraq chemical weapons too old to use: US intelligence officials

by Jim Mannion
46 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The chemical weapons that have been recovered by US forces in Iraq were all made before the 1991 Gulf War and were too degraded for their intended use, US intelligence officials said.

Republican lawmakers have cast the disclosure that about 500 chemical weapons have been found in Iraq as evidence that Saddam Hussein had a stockpile of the weapons before the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

But the intelligence officials, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the weapons were too degraded to have posed a threat to US forces in March 2003.

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The "key points," however, ommitted the fact that the 500 weapons all were of a pre-1991 vintage. The officials indicated that the age of the weapons was not considered classified but were unable to explain why it was not included in the key points given to the senators.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060622/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryweapons_060622191218

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Felix Mala

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:10 PM
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1. Hmmm... label says "Courtesy of US Taxpayer"

Plus a note of thanks from that old used-weapons-of-mass-destruction-on-his-own-people enabler R. Reagan.

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Jara sang

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:14 PM
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2. Santorum is an idiot. They find ordinance on the Big Island all the time.

Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 04:05 PM by Jara sang

Grenades were found in a school yard:

http://starbulletin.com/2002/03/30/news/briefs.html

3 live grenades found in Big Isle school garden

WAIMEA, Hawaii >> Army experts have found and removed three live, World War II-era grenades at a garden at Waimea Middle School on the Big Island, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced.
Army contractors used the current spring break to survey the garden. A live grenade was found at the garden on Feb. 5, and the garden was closed.

Besides the three live grenades, contractors located an inert piece of another grenade and seven bullets, all below ground, the corps said. Explosive experts from Pohakuloa Training Area disposed of the live ammunition.

They even tested chemical weapons on civilians here back in the '60s. Tell me there aren't a couple of unexploded sarin nerve agent shells sitting around in the forest for some hiker to trip over:

http://starbulletin.com/2002/10/10/news/story6.html

WASHINGTON >> The Pentagon acknowledged yesterday that some soldiers engaged in chemical and biological weapons testing in the 1960s may not have been fully informed about the secret experiments conducted at sea and in five states from Hawaii to Florida. Some tests used the military's deadliest nerve agent, VX.

Thousands of civilians in Hawaii and Alaska also probably were unaware they were sprayed with relatively mild bacteria meant to simulate germ weapons such as anthrax, the Defense Department's top health official said.

Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant defense secretary for health affairs, said there is no evidence anyone died as a result of the classified tests, which were part of biological and chemical warfare programs the United States abandoned in 1970.

http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/pdfs/pine_ridge.pdf

Sarin filled BLU-19/B23 and BZ filled BLU-20/B23 bomblets were detonated in testareas in the upper Waiakea Forest Reserve and in the Olaa Forest Preserve, southwestof Hilo, on the island of Hawaii in May and June 1966.

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Supersedeas

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:16 PM
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3. unable to explain why key points not give to the Senators

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blm

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:19 PM
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4. Read the tag. Read the tag. To Saddam, With all my love, GeorgeHWBush

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unpossibles

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:29 PM
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5. man, everything that comes out of Santorum's frothy hole is pure crap

well, mostly, anyway.

The man should stick to what he knows: bestiality

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AValdoux

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:46 PM
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6. I just read a non-political board...

... and the loyal 30% is spinning. "We finally found the WMDs. This is Great!!! But the liberal press will never print it." They went on about how "when it broke last night on FOX they couldn't find any other mention of it. Thank God for FOX" (HAHAHAHAHAHA) "It always about making Bush look bad", all this nonsense about no WMD's. The loyal 30% is really getting desperate. Even when someone posted about them being old, the excuse was "So, it shows Saddam wanted them"

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

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yellowcanine

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:55 PM
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7. Aww, little Ricky thought he found a pony in the manure pile and it turned

out to be just another turd. Oh well. Another 5 point drop in the polls isn't going to matter much at this point.

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