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| Mon, 05-17-2004 - 2:43pm |
>>Sarin Nerve Agent Bomb Explodes in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb containing deadly sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. It was believed to be the first confirmed discovery of any of the banned weapons that the United States cited in making its case for the Iraq war.
Two members of a military bomb squad were treated for "minor exposure," but no serious injuries were reported.
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That the two devices recently discovered didn't work as intended doesn't mean that they didn't exist, or that other such wmd's don't exist, or that none of them which may appear in the future will work. They are there, and that part of the question surrounding Iraq is now answered to at least some degree. WMD's, manufactured by the Hussein government, exist in Iraq.
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Those false positives were all field tests which are designed that way to make sure those in the field are overly cautious around questionable substances. The lab tests are arrurate and the only ones Centcom & the administration refer to, so the mustard gas that was found was indeed mustard gas. We'll have to wait for the follow up testing to determine if the serin is indeed serin.
Renee
Renee
We never supplied Iraq with chemical or biological weapons, & the conventional weapons we sold to them, were used in the Iran war and you'd be hard pressed to come up with anything that was left by the Gulf War let alone still floating around now.
Renee
But we do now know that at least some exist there, and wmd's, regardless of the quantity of them, are a threat to anyone. The same applies to the question of wmd programs... we knew that such programs existed back in the 90's, and we now have as evidence of those programs two fruits of them.
Well we have only had one "fruit" of them.
James
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And how do you know how old it was? It didn't disperse into a very wide area because it has to be delivered in a way that mixes the ingredients in the two chambers together.
This is not stuff that has been accounted for. Saddam said he disposed of it, but couldn't give the inspectors any soil samples, remnants, or documentation to indicate it was. This was one more Iraq's now numerous violoations of UN sanctions.
Renee
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