Are the elusive WMDs in a relay race?
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As I was reading that, I found myself humming the "foot bone's connected to the..." song.  It almost works.
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Since its creation after WW2, some of the world gov's havent ever accepted it, some even chose a race for arms just to prepare what they thought waas a good cause to be against it.  I cant think of why we pay for such a mess. Yeah, I dont think ALL of it is a mess...but it does need to reform and scale back.
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I believe it was a war of choice. The threat was not imminent, if it existed at all.\n\nnicolasraage gives some good links, although some are a bit biased.\n\nHis Washington Post article states that the chemical weapon lab was built after the 2003 invasion. So knock "1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents" off the list.\n\nThe low-enriched uranium was from before the first Gulf War and was barely suitable for power generation, definitely not weapons grade.\n\nThe 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin were so degraded as to be relatively harmless. They were probably from pre-91.\n\n"Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas". They had been used in Iraq for a range of medical and industrial purposes, such as testing oil wells and pipelines. Could they have been used for dispersal? Yes. Were they specifically "meant" for dispersal? No.\n\n" Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and “conventional” sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency". Both of your links to these stories say "possible" sarin and "possible" exposure, and that further tests would be necessary. The Fox news source is highly suspect.\n\nSo, what we have is weapons that were either built before '91 or after 2003, meaning that Saddam was probably not pursuing these technologies during the period when he was not allowed to.
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WMD's usually mean Nuclear Weapons, and under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty every country has the right to develop nuclear weapons, but not to pass the technology onto other non-nuclear nations.\n\nIn effect this means that even unstable dictatorships can in theory develop such weapons, although the UN can invoke sanctions to prevent such development.
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This is an awesome question. I see what you mean by the tactics. Iran is surrounded. I think it may have been just dumb luck though.
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Diplomacy doesn't sell weapons.\n\nHis sponsors see no profit in it
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For the simple reason that there weren't any WMD there.\n\nNow how can you be sure:\n\n1. If they had any they would've been used when US was attacking Iraq.\n2. If they were not used for fear of retaliation, then they should've been found by now.\n\nThe probability of all the WMDs being scuttled for fear of UN inspectors finding them out is very real.
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special weapons and tactics
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they could lend them some WMD... that'll make it a little more interesting
539147
do not answer questions like this people. It may be our enemy trying to find a way to defeat our equipment.
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nothing. so there were no WMDs. there was still an evil dictator who wanted them and he had kill 250,000 + people
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Frontline just aired a special called THE DARK SIDE on the non-existent WMD program and how intelligence was manipulated, especially Cheney and Rumsfeld's role in it.\n\nGo to   www.pbs.org   right now for a repeat of the telecast and further info.
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The truth is... nobody knows... because the wiretaps don't need any oversight... and that's the scariest idea in the world...\n\nthey could listen to every potential democratic congressman and nominee 24-hours a day and we would never know\n\nIf you want to trust Bush go ahead, but I wonder where the "WMD" are?
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i agree. weapons buried and discarded 15 years ago are not\nthe wmd we were told to be afraid of or looking for.
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From a recent news report on June 28th, 2006 (by Kathleen Parker, Tribune Media Services):\n\n"At the center of the current skirmish is a newly unclassified document released Wednesday that seems to confirm evidence of WMD in Saddam's Iraq, including both degraded and possibly lethal chemical agents."\n\n"According to the document, coalition forces have recovered some 500 weapons munitions since 2003 that contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agents. Other key points are that these chemical agents could be used outside Iraq and that "most likely munitions remaining are sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles." "
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The media would prefer not to acknowledge this but here goes:\n\nSo far the military has found, in Iraq:\n\n35 Scud Missiles fitted with Chemical Weapons Canisters instead of Explosive warheads (both scuds and chem weapons are WMDs)\n\n2 Mobile Biological weapons laboratories complete with the precursor organisms to create biological weapons (bio-weapons are a WMD)\n\n1,000 155mm Artillery shells filled with VX nerve agent instead of explosives (chem agents are a WMD)\n\nI could keep doing this for a while, but you get the idea.  The press doesn't want to acknowledge these items as WMDs because there are not mountains of them, but they are still WMDs.
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According to researchers, trained sprinters can react to the gun in between 120 and 160 milliseconds.  \n\nIn international competition, the starting blocks detect the first movement by the runner. If it takes place less than 100 milliseconds after the gun, the runner is charged with a false start.