Looks like these weapons are coming out of the woodworks
It looks like we finally have the smoking gun. I still think there are some serious issues on how the United States dealt with UN inspectors as far as information given to them and whether the United States was ever serious about getting resolutions.
However, I’m sure the Liberation rhetoric of the last two weeks will shift back the the WMD talk out of the Whitehose… sorry Whithouse.
**Kingpingvin **: *I still think there are some serious issues on how the United States dealt with UN inspectors as far as information given to them and whether the United States was ever serious about getting resolutions. *
Ah ha! At last. This is the answer to the operating question…
** When Iraqi WMD are found, how will war opponents explain them away?**
Get it? That Abominable Damnation, the United States, withheld crucial information about the location of Weapons of Mass Destruction from Hans and the Good Ole Boys at the UN just so we could get our cowboy kicks beating up on poor ole Saddam Hussein and the Seven Divisions.
Geez.
I read slow, and you are still not making the sense your assertions would suggest you think you are making. Nor are you presenting claims that are new or unrefuted. Nor is it unusual for you, as we have seen, to forcefully cram the words of Unmovic in whatever twisted little scenario you happen to be working on.
So, unless you can provide the oneiromancer to interpret your elephant-on-stilts output, maybe you ought to start supporting your points better. Or stop repeating those tired and decrepit arguments entirely. Also useless are the pre-emptive attacks against those who remain likely to present valid objections to Misleader’s idea of foreign affairs when and if Iraqi WMD are confirmed.
I was glad to see you make a couple decent points in Collounsbury’s thread though. Points that would suggest you agree that the pre-war preparations were bungled by Bush & co., including presumably losing UN support, failing to convince anyone of the need for this war, etc.
I read slow, and you are still not making the sense your assertions would suggest you think you are making. Nor are you presenting claims that are new or unrefuted. Nor is it unusual for you, as we have seen, to forcefully cram the words of Unmovic in whatever twisted little scenario you happen to be working on.
So, unless you can provide the oneiromancer to interpret your elephant-on-stilts output, maybe you ought to start supporting your points better. Or stop repeating those tired and decrepit arguments entirely. Also useless are the pre-emptive attacks against those who remain likely to present valid objections to Misleader’s idea of foreign affairs when and if Iraqi WMD are confirmed.
I was glad to see you make a couple good points in Collounsbury’s thread though. Points that seem to indicate you agree that the pre-war preparations were bungled by Bush & co., including presumably losing UN support, failing to convince of the need for this war, etc.
Once you finished dealing with a bunch of pesticides?
But thanks for demonstrating that you consider it fine to violate the law to show someone is violating the law. Thanks for demonstrating so thoroughly that people like you have a serious problem granting others the rights they request for themselves. Thanks for demonstrating so thoroughly that dishonesty, disingeneousness and paranoia are the foundations for this war.
OliverH makes a good point about possible origins of the latest batch of suspected chemicals still being tested. We should not jump to conclusions about them being banned nerve agents when they may well be agricultural pesticides.
And given the close chemical relationship between some pesticides and nerve gas, it would be foolhardy to assume that establishing existence of the latter in Iraq is proof of hostile intentions. Given the West’s oppressive trade sanctions, the Iraqis have had to improvise to feed their hungry people.
Even now, the Iraqi Information Minister is probably holding evidence of the harmlessness of chemical agents, either in the form of government bulletins to farmers or copies of advertisements in Iraqi media. The ads might go something like this:
*Farmers! Tired of insects devasting your millet crop? Now you can get higher yields with new SuperSarin™!!
SuperSarin™ kills cucumber beetles, armyworms, nematodes and horseflies on contact. Works great on rebellious Kurds and infidels too!! Available in handy aerosol cans or missile-tipped projectiles (for those big jobs).
You’ll have your biggest crop ever! Your neighbor Ibrahim will be green (with envy)!!
Stop by your local farm supply outlet today, and look for the giant poster of Saddam’s beloved cousin, ‘Chemical’ Ali. You’ll be glad you did!
Remember, that’s SuperSarin™, available wherever fine chemical agents (for agricultural use only) are sold.*