# Well, found those WMDs after all... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172 "2007-02-22T01:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172/41 "2007-02-22T20:10:25Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] They did find SCUD type rockets modified for extra range (a violation in and of itself) where the warhead had been modified to accept chemical weapons. [/quote] And the inspectors discovered this, IIRC. > [@](#): > > Also Isreali inteillence monitored dozens of covered and sealed large semi-trucks sneaking into Syria.The Isrealis were pretty certain that WMD were in those trucks. Cite?? C’mon - if anyone had come up with any viable evidence of WMDs being snuck out of the country before or during the invasion, we’d have been debating it endlessly, long before now. Just like we did with every other goddamned bogus “See, Saddam had WMDs after all!” claim that someone boosted here and everyone else shot down. > [@](#): > > And only US Armed force (“no fly zone”) prevented Saddam from continuing his policy of genocide vs the Kurds. Which was being done for a decade or more before the 2003 invasion, and we could have done it until Saddam died, for a fraction of the cost of the war. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172/42 "2007-02-22T20:16:03Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] Cite?? [/QUOTE] It was published, like, on Debkafiles when first they couldn’t find the WMD’s. Ultimately, the Iraq survey group didn’t buy the story: [Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042501554.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172/43 "2007-02-22T20:18:47Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] C’mon now, we’re about due a 3,000-word, snooze-inducing quasi-droll/pithy treatise on some pop culture jerkoff topic or other. Why don’t you write it on how Saddam never had any chemical weapons! That would be grand. [/QUOTE] [Been there, done that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=376770) I think the conclusion was, if it was found in Iraq, it isn’t a WMD. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172/44 "2007-02-22T20:29:21Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] They did find SCUD type rockets modified for extra range (a violation in and of itself) where the warhead had been modified to accept chemical weapons. [/QUOTE] “They” being the UN inspectors, who then monitored the destruction of said missiles. As I’ve said before, I hope someone caught it on video, because no rogue state will ever be this cooperative again. > [@](#): > > Also Isreali inteillence monitored dozens of covered and sealed large semi-trucks sneaking into Syria.The Isrealis were pretty certain that WMD were in those trucks. Sorry, not buying it. WMD do not exist in a vacuum - even if the weapons themselves were smuggled out (for what reason ?), there’ll be plenty of evidence for them having been there. No such evidence has been forthcoming. But feel free to prove me wrong with some sort of reliable cite on the Syria hypothesis. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172/45 "2007-02-23T09:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=Spiny Norman] “They” being the UN inspectors, who then monitored the destruction of said missiles. As I’ve said before, I hope someone caught it on video, because no rogue state will ever be this cooperative again. Sorry, not buying it. WMD do not exist in a vacuum - even if the weapons themselves were smuggled out (for what reason ?), there’ll be plenty of evidence for them having been there. No such evidence has been forthcoming. But feel free to prove me wrong with some sort of reliable cite on the Syria hypothesis. [/QUOTE] Yea, quite - Israeli Intelligence - now that’s a fine, upstanding impartial source. No reason why they’d want to point their big brother at another of their enemies. No siree. No reason at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-found-those-wmds-after-all/393172.md?page=2)