Bush is vindicated, the military has found Saddam's WMD!

[sabra]

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/081305cckkcwintIraqchemical.6cef870a.html

U.S. raids suspected chemical facility in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops raided a suspected insurgent chemical weapons factory in northern Iraq, finding about 1,500 gallons of dangerous substances, the U.S. military said Saturday.

Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, a military spokesman, said 11 chemicals were found in the hideout in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, "which are dangerous by themselves, and mixed together they would become even more dangerous."

"Our feeling at this point is that had this stuff been mixed and used, it could have been very easily used against Iraqi and coalition forces," Boylan said.

The military cautioned in a statement, however, that ongoing testing at the facility was "insufficient to determine what the insurgents had been producing" and that further tests were required.



U.S. troops raiding a suspected chemical productions facility in northern Iraq took this photo of chemical production devices.

One problem, this chemical plant is a new production. In addition it reminds me of the laundry room in my first apartment building...

[Bumblebee]

1. NOT!

I am actually surprised they have not tried to spin it that way.

[alfredo]

4. You know they have and will now say bush is vindicated.

They never let the truth get in the way of a good lie.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

15. yeah, but it's not even a good lie, really

more like a really crappy lie, bolstered by more crappy lies.

[alfredo]

21. It would sound desparate.

It appears people have reached a point where they don't trust bush anymore. They are tuning him out.

[leeroysphitz]

34. more like a really crappy lie, bolstered by more crappy lies.

Isn't that all they've ever needed so far? The crappier the lies the better they seem to work somehow.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. My bullshit meter just went apeshit.

[stepnw1f]

3. I Saw This at another Forum

Absolutely ridiculous......... Wait! It's my basement!!!!

[RoyGBiv]

5. Hmmm ...

Meth lab?

:evilgrin:

[CatWoman]

12. lololol

those whacky-Iraqis

:D

[NewInNewJ.]

6. If they are the big weapons

then why didn't they use them to keep us from killing so many of their Citizens? What a bunch of crap.

[kentuck]

7. They finally found them !

Too bad they just created them to kill Americans with...Violence breeds violence, won't they learn?

[opihimoimoi]

11. 30 drums sure don't sound like :much: ado about nothing...

[Guaranteed]

8. Jesus Christ.

I sure as FUCK hope they got them ALL.

[tabasco]

9. Man The Lifeboat!

[blogslut]

10. The first sentence makes it plain

"U.S. troops raided a suspected insurgent chemical weapons factory in northern Iraq".

No Saddam about it.

[Bumblebee]

25. yes, all news accounts I have heard so far stress that they are recent

and no link to Sadam

[merh]

13. What a frightening chemical plant - could pass for

meth lab


or how about a still

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. Oh puhleeeeeze! GEEZUS! That looks like something

the professor from Gilligan's Island concocted! :eyes:

[dflprincess]

16. "and mixed together they would become even more dangerous"

I have bleach and amonia under my kitchen sink. Mixed together they can be dangerous.

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. I'm glad they finally found that stuff!

Some moonshiner will be glad to know his still has been recovered, safe and sound.

Nice work, men.

[Bluebear]

18. Oh for heavens sake

[Mythsaje]

19. It's a meth lab... LOL n/t

[Old Vet]

22. Calling Scott Ritter, The repugs will spin this to death.......

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Exactly, it's new, just like the new presence of Al Queda in Iraq,

America-hating terrorists, and all sorts of things they've created while "searching" for them.

Ask anyone who thinks this laundry room is the "imminent threat" BushCo went on and on and on about. Long-range drones, etc.

[Vickers]

23. Wow, that place must be capable of OUNCES and OUNCES of chemicals!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[meganmonkey]

39. Bwahahahahaha!

me and mistermonkey:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[KerryOn]

24. Funny you should mention laundry room......

According to the CNN report he chemicals found were glycerin, sodium hydroxide and ethanol sulfate.

Glycerin is a natural by-product of the soap making process. Commercial manufacturers remove the glycerin for use in lotions creams, etc. My wife uses glycerin to handcrafted all of the soap that we use. We haven't purchased soap from a store in over 10 years.

Sodium hydroxide is used to make other chemicals. It is widely used in making soaps and detergents. It is used as a reagent for pollution control systems to absorb HCL and SO2, and it is also used in producing textiles, making paper, and in etching aluminum.

I'm not sure about ethanol sulfate, but ethanol is an alcohol made from grain and sulfate is a detergent (I think).

It sounds to me like the Kurds were just making SOAP! Ha! Ha!

[karlrschneider]

29. I haven't even checked on "ethanol sulfate" because there ain't any such

compound. There MIGHT be ETHYL SULPHATE...which would be, let me think...(C2H5)2SO4 but I'm not sure that would be a stable or even possible compound...any DU chemists wanna help me here?...been 45 years since I took organic in college. ;-)

[KerryOn]

33. I agree....

... but thats what the CNN report stated.

Isn't ethanol used to reduce sulphate emissions from our gas guzzlers?

[Liberal In Texas]

26. Yeah, that stuff looks just like this drawing they showed us before the

invasion...

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. LOL! Excellent!

[jillan]

27. Maybe they just threw this together so they could tell the protestors -

see!!!

I wouldn't put it past them.

[Junkdrawer]

28. At best, this MAY be an insurgent bomb-making lab...

although, as someone else pointed out, the chemicals involved are common.

But the right wing media is trying to spin this, at least among the more dense among them, as the long sought after Saddam WMDs.

Shameless. Like the 70% who were spun to believe Saddam did 9-11.

[Hubert Flottz]

31. That's just Cheney's heart support equipment, layin' around in...

an undisclosed location.(hidey hole)

[tlsmith1963]

32. I Was Just at CNN.com...

...they said that it was possible this was the insurgents' stash, not Saddam's. All the more reason we shouldn't be over there. We went over there based on lies, & now the insurgents want to use chemical weapons on our people. Time to admit we were wrong & get out. It's not worth it for our soldiers to get killed by chemical weapons, and for what? A lie?

Tammy

[Fleshdancer]

35. So lying about WMD's gets us into a war that spurs production of

WMD that didn't exist prior to invasion?? Great. What a way to "support our troops". :sarcasm:

[Generic Other]

36. Is that grandpappy's still?

Looks pretty rinky dink.

[KG]

37. another desert WMD site

[Junkdrawer]

40. ROTFLOL...That is good...

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

38. But was it found north, south, east, or west (somewhat) of Baghdad?

It's important!

[brettdale]

41. this factory was built after the invasion

This factory was built after the invasion, why isnt the MSM all over this, ripping Bushy a new one.