Possible Iraqi Blister Gas Weapons Found

[JusticeForAll]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040110/ts_nm/iraq_chemicals_dc

This article has updated info relating to the cnn one posted earlier.

<snip>The tests were taken after Danish troops found 36 120mm mortar rounds on Friday in southern Iraq. The Danish army said the rounds had been buried for at least 10 years.

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The Danish army statement said local Iraqis had confirmed that the 36 mortar shells had been buried for at least 10 years at the site 12 miles north of Qurnah.

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There are several hundred Danish soldiers working with a British-led multinational force responsible for security in southern Iraq.


The U.S. administration had cited the threat of illicit weapons of mass destruction as a principle reason for launching war on Iraq in March last year. But no such weapons were found.


The United States earlier this month pulled out from Iraq a 400-member military team specializing in the disposal of weapons of mass destruction, in what the New York Times said was "a sign that administration might have lowered its sights" and viewed it as less likely that such weapons would be found.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Oh please....

:eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. AT LEAST ten years

they have been buried

Somethign tells me that somebody lost the records of these things we sold to them over 20 years ago.. and they were never used during the War with Iran.

Oh and their shelf life is well past.

Could also be another false alarm...

[IbeaMoran]

12. I must have missed that part of the report

Where does it conclude that we made the weapons and sold them to Iraq?

[zbdent]

14. Somebody please, give this Moran a link!

(well, if the poster's handle is IbeaMoran, then it's logical to believe that he/she is a Moran).

I know that there are several instances where the US has admitted arming Saddam and Iraq while they were at war with Iran (our enemy since 1979), but I don't have imminent access to the links of mass destruction to show this person.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. We did during the raegan administration

the ongoing joke in DC was, we know they have them, how do we know?
we have the receipts

Ask Rumsfeld abuot it.. he was our man in Baghdad

And if they are 20 years old, they are part of that stock.

[myomy]

3. What does the label say,Ómade in the USAÓ?

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[oneighty]

4. Hmmmmm

A little while ago the article suggests "chemical" munitions. Have they updated it to blister gas?

180

[JusticeForAll]

8. Yes, that's the article title

What's the distinction between the two...I'm not a chemist.

[qanda]

5. Buried in the north for at least 10 years...

Why are they digging up stuff that is meant to be buried. They were told it had been buried and now they're digging stuff up just to prove that it was once there. This is laughable.

[truthisfreedom]

6. piles of buried, leaky junk.

the smoking gun! make that the leaking ammo.

[Trajan]

7. Critical point ...

"The tests were taken after Danish troops found 36 120mm mortar rounds on Friday in southern Iraq. The Danish army said the rounds had been buried for at least 10 years. "

[qanda]

9. Just in time for the 60 minutes interview!

eom

[DS1]

10. This could be more damaged to the prez

Before they could say they haven't found them yet. Now they've found some, the world can go "That's it!?!?"

It's a pathetic image, like this pathetic presidency.

[KissMyAsscroft]

11. Is a 10 year old blister gas missle a WMD?

Answer is no.

But they will claim it is...

[FlashHarry]

13. Not WMD, but Joe Sixpack won't know the difference

And, believe me, the Admin. won't stress the difference. Remember, according to Joe Sixpack, Iraq equals Al Qaeda.

[Moderator]

16. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=308105