from the Iran/Iraq war. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040702/wl_nm/iraq_poland_weapons_dc . . . Poland said in a statement from Iraq that "beyond doubt the shells were from the 1980-1988 period, of the type used against Kurds and during the Iraq-Iran war." In Baghdad, the U.S. military issued a statement saying that two 122 mm rockets found by Polish forces had tested positive for sarin gas and confirmed that they were left over from the Iran-Iraq war, but said they posed little danger. The statement said an Iraqi civilian had led the soldiers to the rockets in the town of Hilla, 62 miles south of Baghdad on June 16. "Due to the deteriorated state of the rounds and small quantity of remaining agent, these rounds were determined to have limited to no impact if used by insurgents against Coalition Forces," the statement said. The Iraqi showed the Polish troops 16 more 122 mm rockets from June 23 to 26, which were all empty and tested negative for any type of chemicals, the U.S. statement said. . . . We probably helped make these possible.
I am so glad that we found those WMDs, those 20 year old rockets definetly posed a significant threat towards our national security. and bama, in a similar retort with equivalent logical capability, yes we did, can't you get your head out of the ground??
I think the agents would be in amounts that could not cause mass destruction due to old age and such. It's like taking a rusty car to race in Nascar, it probably won't work out like it should.
Are you saying that because they were 20 years old they were incapable of being deployed? No, Refman. Are you saying that these old weapons justified the war? Why shouldn't we go with Powell and Rice's public pronouncements before 9/11, that Iraq wasn't a threat? Were they lying then or now?
They could have been deployed just like any other weapons could have been deployed. And just like those other weapons, they don't have any capability of mass destruction more than any conventional weapon.
We didn't supply the chemicals. Our French and German "allies" did. No WMD in Iraq, eh? Now you people have changed your tune to "Well....well......they're not enough of them and the ones they have are old, yeah, that's the ticket, they're old and not a threat."
pardon my attention to detail, but if one is to classify a "weapon of mass destruction", it had better be a weapon capable of mass destruction. a coke can with some weedkiller in it shot out of a potato gun is not worth it to me at the cost of lives and limbs of american soldiers, who we are sacrificing at the for one of the greatest lies of all time. I know you may hate foreigners and people from other countries, but some of us like to live in "the world" instead of just America. No reason to blame them for our mistakes, real grown-ups take responsibility for their actions.
I am saying that because they were 20 years old that they were incapable of causing "mass destruction," a necessary component of being called a "weapon of mass destruction."
