I would have to call this a few years late and billions of dollars short. Sorry, not buying it. That missile doesn't appear to be in any shape to do any harm to anyone.

Who knows how long that has been buried in the dirt. For all I know that thing could have been buried there from before the 1991 invasion.

This doesnt matter anyway LOL. Many Iraqi officials have admitted to their WMD's as well as their shipment to Syria prior to the war. Iraq also used chemical weapons against the Kurds and the Iranians and that was a long time ago. They developed more weapons since then.

They moved and buried things to hide them from the US. I remember seeing a pic of a Mig-21 that had been buried in the desert.

omg u really think that wreck of a missile is going to fool anybody? I need more evidence than a buried missile. Does it have a nuclear components inside??? If not I wouldnt call this a weapon of mass destruction.......

Hmmm it says the missile could take a nuke warhead of 350 kilo-tonnes... That could of been 27 times more powerful than Hiroshima! - That would defo take out a carrier should it of gotten through!

But more than the actual missile it is the timing of this find, nearly 10 years and just when the enquiry is at it's peak and now America is lining up against other countries like Iran, North Korea and Syria (among others)

I don't think you understand the definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

WMD means nuclear, chemical, or biological weapon.

An ICBM is not a weapon of mass destruction unless it has a nuclear payload (even if that is an ICBM)

Go back to your drawing board.

Every rogue nation has missiles armed with warheads. We knew Iraq had tons of conventional missiles. Everybody knew that. The only problem is when they are NUCLEAR, which they obviously weren't.

[edit on 5-2-2010 by seattletruth]

Sorry but that ICBM Didnt fool me, my my my has the pro western media run of out stories for the little sheeps? so they are making this one? just so they will join the bandwagoon on iran eh?

It's a good thing they found that!!! It looks totally launch ready.

Kinda reminds me of a '72' pinto I used to own.

Mission accomplished.

Lets go home.

/edit Hope it was worth all the lives, money, and time.


[edit on 5-2-2010 by Kaytagg]

"...long-range anti-ship missile ..."
This is definitely a WSD "Weapon of Ship Destruction".

Very scary looking, but does it make a mushroom cloud? capable of 'Mass' destruction?..eeeeeeeeeeh, no.

Unless premiere bush was actually saying "WSD" all along, which I'm sure some GOP cultists would readily rather believe than admit their dear party leader is a lying sack of murdering crap.

You know....even if there were a sticker on it that said "this missle is carrying a nuclear payload" signed and dated by Suddam himself with a 100% verification that it was his hand writing and even after we take the thing apart and find that it did/does carry a nuclear playload.............most folks wouldn't believe it.


(this is 100% satire....there is no signed missle with a nuclear payload so please don't ask me to quote my source)

No offence to smaller dictatorship nations, but we are living in an information age over 50 years after hiroshima.

If not now pretty soon every kid in highschool will be able to split an atom in his basement.

I agree this find may be political, but so what. Saddam was an assassin that killed his way to power (look it up). I feel safer with him gone.

We need a world with compassionate rulers who care more about their people than the amount of castles they have.

We intervened in kuwait and should have removed him from power at the time, as he started a unjustifiable war.

Kuwait was a rich nation and supported Iraq's war against Iran. Iraq and them were friends but Saddam stabbed them in the back for financial gain, killing innocent women and children in the process.

War needs to end and every nation needs to do their part to remove dictatorships and install democracy and safeguards.

The exhaust end is all wrong . The real KH 22-s exhaust doesn't taper like the one in the daily mail pic . The ( real kh 22) tail fins come out at 90 degree angles too, the daily mail pic shows fins angled to in a way they'd only be 3 fins . And the fins themselves aren't even the same shape.