WMD's...here we go again...

[imax2268]

Ok...just watch the right try and hammer this one the next few weeks or so...just watch...

U.N.: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer


UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday.

U.N. inspectors have been blocked from returning to Iraq since the U.S.-led war in 2003 so they have been using satellite photos to see what happened to the sites that were subject to U.N. monitoring because their equipment had both civilian and military uses.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-un-weapons-inspectors,1,5084698.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[LiberalVoice]

1. Hammer what?

The U.N. couldn't protect the equipment because * is too busy murdering children over there.

The real question is who took them...I dunno how the insurgency could manage to clean out 109 sites all by their lonesomes. It was probably us.

[snowbear]

2. Sounds like they knew about this.. but haven't paid attention

lately... and =woops= :think: Now they're asking .."Where the Hell did it go?"

[AuntiBush]

3. Notice the word "could..." Ah.Ha. Yeah.

And U.N. inspectors are blocked from returning... a little too late.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Oops. We did it again...

left the weapons unguarded AGAIN.

not that we had enough man-power over there to do a damn thing about it anyway.

[imax2268]

6. that's what I was thinking...

these sites must have been left ungaurded again...

and the fact that the * misadministration is not blocking the inspectors from getting in there...

[Contrary1]

5. "material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons..."

I have stuff that fits that description under my kitchen sink...
what a crock.

[Ikonoklast]

7. That's what I was thinking.......

after I accidentally mixed a chlorine-based cleaner with some ammonia. Homemade chemical weapon. Damn near choked my ass off. It was either that or the three bowls of chili and six-pack I had for dinner. Dunno, smelled about the same and did just as good a job cleaning out the old sinuses.

[tmorelli415]

8. maybe the US and/or UK moved it?

wouldn't it be the job of coalition forces to secure that stuff? I can't believe that us and uk didnt know this stuff was there if the un knew - seems they would have said something before now if it was missing. especially since it would help their wmd claim which was found to be a lie. i just don't see how this could be news to US or UK military or intelligence.

[ms.smiler]

9. I bet you mixed sodium hypochlorite (bleach) with ammonia and created

toxic chloramine gas. Our basement contained my Father's workshop and laboratory. He studied chemistry and I remember this particular caution about household cleaners. Chloramine gas has the potential to be lethal but a low level exposure in the home environment usually acts as an inhalational irritant.

If you mix sodium hypochlorite with acidic cleaning agents such as toilet bowl cleaners, you produce chlorine gas. During the Civil War the use of chlorine gas was proposed as a chemical warfare agent, but its use was not adopted. Later during World War I over 1 million troops were lost due to exposure to chlorine gas.

Something like chlorine liquid has many legitimate uses for industry but of course industrial accidents are not uncommon. Now consider the possibility of a deliberate release of chlorine as a terrorist act. Our government is much too busy though fighting supposed terrorists over there to secure anything here in our own country. Why then should the Bush administration have worried about securing any potentially dangerous chemicals or equipment in Iraq? This is just another example of how the Bush administration has actually jeopardized our security.


Everyone, please be careful about mixing household cleaners which can produce dangerous compounds.

[Ikonoklast]

10. I am well aware of what happened

but I was trying to make the point that the idiots running this manufactured war use a fair amount of hyperbole when it comes to WMD. Simple chemicals can be used for a variety of useful things but as you well know combined in the wrong way and things go boom. BTW, one of my very earliest memories as a child was visiting my maternal grandfather at the VA hospital. He was a doughboy in WW1 and had gotten gassed at the front. Took him over thirty years to die from it.