MSNBC: Chemical weapons found in Iraq!

[IndianaGreen]

MSNBC correspondent is now reporting that a US unit has found a factory of chemical weapons in Iraq. The factory was run by insurgents and the military thinks that they were trying to manufacture them to use them against US troops.

It took a US invasion to create conditions in which chemical weapons would be manufactured in Iraq.

On edit:

The MSNBC reporter was Mike Fletcher and he just finished his live report from Baghdad.

[OzarkDem]

1. Well, finally!

At least they found chemical weapons, even if they had to be the catalyst themselves.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Oh sh*t, now the spin machine will be going full tilt 'splaining how

they have protected the world from Saddam once again.

[Ilsa]

3. Figures. Iraq is incapable of creating WMD until we move into

the neighborhood.

[leftchick]

4. I am sure this not how faux is reporting it

but then I won't turn it on to see either.

[OneTwentyoNine]

5. So....there are chemicals but no weapons--I have chemicals in my garage..

So does most everyone else,but they THINK they were trying to manufacture something. Yeah Ok.....

[leftofthedial]

32. if Iraq was a red state

it would have just been a meth lab.

[oneighty]

6. Thinks they were "Trying"

This is a real stretch.

180

[Merlot]

7. Most people will either not understand that it was run by insurgents

repubs will have a field day saying "told you so!"

This will conviently fail to understand - with the help of the media- that it was our invasion that planted these seeds.

[Windy]

17. Yep, that will be the spin..no doubt!

[nookiemonster]

8. Iran must be following shrub's lead,

and outsourcing their work to Iraq.

:sarcasm:

[FloridaPat]

9. That will be the headline, and 90% of the people won't read the rest

of the article. They will just assume that the invasion was for a good reason. More propaganda.

[Vickers]

10. Factories aren't usually in the business of "trying to manufacture"

:eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes:

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

11. hmmm...they find weapons just as the ground swell for Cindy is growing.n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Will we be getting a drawing of what the factory looked like?

[OneTwentyoNine]

15. Yeah...and I'll bet its on that Turkey farm that Bush loved to pimp....n/t

[rman]

16. And blurry satellite images, please.

Or else we won't believe it.

[OneTwentyoNine]

13. Funny,not ONE word about it on their web site.....

Big,BIG story but nothing on the MSNBC web site. I mean honestly,what did they think those roadside bombs were being made from,toliet paper and gum??

[DanCa]

14. No knee jerk responses from me.

I dont trust the msm. Remember the sarin shell?

[kikiek]

18. It will be Iran shipped them. The war drum is banging.

[Domitan]

19. My thoughts exactly...if this story plays out

evil fucks!

[xxqqqzme]

33. there will B

'made in Iran' stickers on the bottom.

[xchrom]

20. sigh -- the anti war movement gains more ground,

evidence that bushco and blair fabricated evidense for the war mounting every day, banging the military action against iran beginning...and now a cache of chemical weapons have been found?

bushco and the ''main stream media'' are good at their jobs.

this only reenforces in my mind the need for a real confrontation with corporate america if we are to ever have a democracy in this country again.

[madmom]

21. could this possibly be......

the stuff that was stolen from us in the beginning of this "struggle":shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

22. MSNBC is going to report on this again, stay tuned!

The woman anchor just announced that the discovery of a chemical weapons factory in Iraq near Mosul will be coming up shortly.

[DefenseLawyer]

23. Remember at the close of the ground war

Fox reported every other day "Drums of Chemical Weapons Found!" and Mobile Lab Found on Trailer" only to have them tested, quietly, and without another headline, to explain that they had found fertilizer or a machine to produce hydrogen for recon balloons. The story I saw said they found some chemicals in a building that they believed had been in the control of the insurgents, but they don't even know what the chemicals are, much less that they were chemical weapons. Sorry, but as Chuck once said: Don't believe the hype.

[dcfirefighter]

24. They've already found mustard, a couple years ago

[TroglodyteScholar]

31. Yea, that was right next to the ketchup, right? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

25. Mike Boettcher is the reporter (I reported him as being Fletcher)

He is on now!

On edit:

The reporter said that the military found a chemical factory near Mosul and that the chemicals are similar to some found in Jordan during a raid at a house in which Al-Qaeda suspects were arrested. The reporter said that the US military fears that Al-Qaeda wants to detonate a chemical weapon to cause mass casualties and panic in Iraq, as the people arrested in Jordan wanted to do in Jordan.

[IndianaGreen]

26. U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility

Story is now posted in LBN from another news source. Posted in LBN by ECH1969. Here is the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1698698

U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces raided an insurgent facility that may have been producing an unspecified type of chemicals, the U.S. military said Saturday. It was unclear what was being produced or whether the materials were intended for weapons, the statement added.

U.S. troops, acting on a tip from detainees under interrogation, raided a "suspected insurgent chemical production facility" in northern Iraq last Tuesday, the statement said, without specifying the location.

However, the military cautioned that ongoing testing at the facility was "insufficient to determine what the insurgents had been producing." The military said it also was investigating which insurgent group was operating the facility.

The military has found many suspected chemical sites in the past, none of which ended up containing chemical or biological weapons. Testing of such sites can take several days.

http://myopr.com/articles/2005/08/13/ap/headlines/d8bv0n480.txt

[City Lights]

27. So GE is tryin' to save **'s ass.

How convenient.

Anyone know if any other "news" outlets are reporting this?

[IndianaGreen]

28. The AP is now reporting the story

and it has been posted in LBN.

[City Lights]

29. Thanks, IndianaGreen. Going to LBN...

:hi:

[leesa]

30. More BS. Two days from now on page 23, they will print the correction.

How many times will our traitorous media take us on this ride.