I’m sure glad those U.N. inspectors did such a good job. Military force was completely unnecessary. :rolleyes:
Why don’t we wait til CentCom, at least, confirms this before we take it as granted.
Could turn out to be like the scuds.
OK AZcowboy, the existence of the 100 acre chemical weapons plant complex has now been confirmed by the Pentagon. Sorry.
But maybe the Peace March Folks will now explain to us that it is merely a part of Saddam’s
**“Toxic Chemicals for World Peace Program” **that we have rudely interupted.
And the beat goes on…
Wow. I take a little over an hour away from the news to go to an evening church service, and come home to discover this news! Things sure do move fast.
Gimme a link there, Milum.
I will be very very surprised if they dont find any chemical weapons in Iraq.
On the other hand, from the Yahoo article this seems like its just a chemical plant. There are several chemical plants near my house. I doubt there are weapons coming out of them.
Lets be cautious here. Crying wolf too many times – and its already been called soooooooo many times – will undermine the believability of the real mccoy.
They were doing a fine job until some idiot decided to come in and shoot up the place.
Are the chemical plants by your house camouflaged?
Google’s way-back machine turned up this 1992 inspection of a tire plant at An Najaf:
http://www.iraqwatch.org/un/IAEA/iaea-15.htm
Perhaps this new discovery is the same plant ?
I was going to say something about the reliability of Fox News. But I found I couldn’t muster sufficient sarcasm. Really, its seems there is a limit.
I’ll wait and see what the news outlets report.
Just about every major unit has one of those “sniffers” used to detect chemical and biological agents. They haven’t sent one there yet?
Why not, Lucy? Ad hominem debating tactics sure wouldn’t be new for you.
In any case, Fox just said that it’s still uncertain whether this new find was a chemical weapons plant or not. Let’s give it a wait.
Okay, I found it myself. It says:
“U.S. Central Command said in a statement that troops were examining ‘sites of interest,’ but did not elaborate. The statement said reports describing the discovery as a chemical weapons factory were ‘premature.’”
-snip-
"It is not yet known what chemicals were being produced at the plant.
“Asked at a news conference in Qatar Sunday about reports of the chemical plant, Lt. Gen. John Abizaid of U.S. Central Command declined comment. He said top Iraqi officers have been questioned about chemical weapons.”
From the ever reliable Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81935,00.html
Not very conclusive.
Again, I bet they will find something somewhere. But this is the second largest oil producing country. They are very very likely to have large non-weapons producing chemical plants there.
Lets wait until the Pentagon says its a chemical WEAPONS plant. If everyone jumps up and down saying “I told you so I told you so!” every time something looking vaguely like it might be a weapons plant is uncovered, nobody is going to believe you when they really do find one.
I find it rather interesting that so far only Fox News is reporting Pentagon confirmation of the Jerusalem Post’s story. This AP story, which appears to have been filed after the Fox News story, has US officials still trying to determine whether this chemicals factory was or wasn’t involved in making chemical weapons. I’m sure we’ll soon see.
JoeCool: “I’m sure glad those U.N. inspectors did such a good job. Military force was completely unnecessary.”
Last I heard the UN inspectors said they needed at least several more weeks to complete their inspections, and never said a single word about whether military force might ultimately be necessary. But, by all means, go on edifying us with your, um, coolness.
We shall see… Is this like the reported scud’s reported a couple days ago?
I am all breaking news with a grain of salt. This report on the surface doesn’t pass the smell test.
Tin clad building? Camo? 30 enemy combatants.
I can see this turning out to be a group of poor Iraqi’s sitting in their recycled tin-roofing clad hovel with a sod roof, cooking up a pot of beans. (well, they MIGHT be castor beans for making ricin).
Even if we found some pathetic little excuse for a chemical factory, that still does not provide any retroctive legal justification for the invasion. Even if we find a giant underground cache of ICBMs, that still would not justify the invasion. Rather than whoo-hooing over what is probably a soap factory we should be expressing a little outrage over the 12 American GIs that GWB murdered today.
Are you directing that to the knee- jerk who started the thread or to elucidator?
I just checked the cite. Do you mean to tell me you guys ran screaming in here, jumping up and down and the heaviest thing this article says is “suspected”? Suspected? WTF does that mean?
Diddly-squat is what that means.
And, for some reason, you didn’t seem to want to include much in the way of quotes. Let me help you out with one:
"The statement said reports describing the discovery as a chemical weapons factory were “premature.”
“Premature” “Suspected” Under any other circumstances, this shit would be funny.
“And, for some reason, you didn’t seem to want to include much in the way of quotes. Let me help you out with one:”
Hey, man, I had that quote in MY post! 