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Originally posted by junglelord
chilled voodoo your living in progaganda technicolor
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[edit on 30-5-2007 by DontTreadOnMe]
Originally posted by junglelord
It amazes me when people die daily there (Iraq people, #e vs sunnie) and you know how much time it got yesterday on american news?
30 seconds.
Can the United States of America ever find a way to escape this hell in Iraq?
Originally posted by Gazrok
It's a pretty sure bet that whoever wins the 2008 election will be the one to go along with the majority of Americans (according to every major respected poll) and be in favor of an exact (and short) timeline for American withdrawal from Iraq.
Originally posted by dbates
Did they honestly belived that there were weapons in Iraq?
Originally posted by selfless
For those of you who thinks this invasion have nothing to do with oil...
Please remember when they first started to invade Iraq what happened, the Iraqi's burned the oil fields.
What does that tell you?
Again I ask, can the United States of America ever find a way to escape this hell in Iraq?
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Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria, Official Says
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2006 – The 500 munitions discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the center’s commander said here today.
“These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes … they do constitute weapons of mass destruction,” Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee.
The Chemical Weapons Convention is an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. It was signed in 1993 and entered into force in 1997.
The munitions found contain sarin and mustard gases, Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said. Sarin attacks the neurological system and is potentially lethal.
U.S. REMOVES NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL MATERIALS FROM IRAQ
WASHINGTON, JULY 8-- Iraqi radiological and nuclear materials with a potential use in weapons programs or dispersal devices have been removed from the country and airlifted to the United States, according to a July 6 press statement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
In a joint Energy and Defense Department operation, 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and approximately 1000 highly radioactive sources were secured from Iraq's former nuclear research facility, packaged and then airlifted on June 23, the press statement said.
Iraqi Chemical Stash Uncovered
Post-Invasion Cache Could Have Been For Use in Weapons
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 14, 2005; A18
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 -- U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.
Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, "some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.
Combined, the chemicals would yield an agent capable of "lingering hazards" for those exposed to it, Boylan said. The likely targets would have been "coalition and Iraqi security forces, and Iraqi civilians," partly because the chemicals would be difficult to keep from spreading over a wide area, he said.
Terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq, the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday.
Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw.
Originally posted by OverlordQ
No WMDs?
Let's see, what else do we have here:
A Pentagon official who confirmed the findings said that all the weapons were pre-1991 vintage munitions "in such a degraded state they couldn't be used for what they are designed for."
The official, who asked not to be identified, said most were 155 millimeter artillery projectiles with mustard gas or sarin of varying degrees of potency.
"We're destroying them where we find them in the normal manner," the official said.
Polish troops had been searching for munitions as part of their regular mission in south-central Iraq when they were told by an informant in May that terrorists had made a bid to buy the chemical weapons, which date back to Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s, Gen. Marek Dukaczewski told reporters in Warsaw.
Originally posted by OverlordQ
Ah, i see now. They're not considered WMD's anymore because that would destroy the "THEY LIED ABOUT WMDs" the left like to use. Thanks for the heads up.
Iraq seems to have suffered a fate worse than Saddam, and there is apparently no longer reason to be optimistic about this war.
Originally posted by jprophet420
i can honestly say i bitterly hate anyone who was ever optimistic about a war.