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Skriven 2006-07-16 08:50:28 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
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16 Jul 06 07:36, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 FS> -=> Quoting Roy Witt to Janis Kracht <=-

 >>>> But they have since found over 500 WMDs ...
 >>>> What? Where?

 >>> Over 500 shells, some containing mustard "gas" -- and that is very
 >>> stable -- some with Sarin, a less stable material but still
 >>> dangerous.  A U.S. Senator announced that on TV several weeks
 >>> ago.

 JK>> The Pentagon denied his claim.  They found shells (empty) that
 JK>> contained traces of pre-1991 biological weapons (probably from the
 JK>> U.S. to use on the Iranians in the Iran/Iraq war!)

 RW>> 29, June, 2006

 RW>> Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee:

 RW>> The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,
 RW>> Duncan Hunter, used his opening statement to describe what he said
 RW>> was the purpose of the hearing.

 RW>> "Tell us what you have, without embellishment, without conclusions,
 RW>> without editorials, but very simply, just the facts," said Duncan
 RW>> Hunter.

 RW>> First up was Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican:

 RW>> "We now have verified the existence of about 500 such weapons and
 RW>> the intelligence report assesses that others, ones that could be
 RW>> sold on the black market, that could fall into the hands of
 RW>> terrorist or insurgents, that could end up outside of Iraq, exist
 RW>> there," said Curt Weldon.

 RW>> Next was General Michael Maples, head of the DIA in charge of the
 RW>> investigation:

 RW>> Lt. General Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency,
 RW>> testified that although in degraded condition, the munitions found
 RW>> and the substances they contained posed, on their own, a potential
 RW>> risk to U.S. forces, and were vulnerable to falling into the hands
 RW>> of terrorists.

 RW>> "They would represent a danger in Iraq for those who could come in
 RW>> contact with them or if they fell into the hands of others
 RW>> potentially they could become a threat either within Iraq, and I
 RW>> believe as the Director of National Intelligence stated, the
 RW>> possibility of use outside of Iraq could not be ruled out," said
 RW>> General Maples.

 RW>> Army Colonel John Chiu expanded.

 RW>> "Regardless of the purity of the sample, any remaining agent [in the
 RW>> shells] is toxic, with potential to be lethal," said Colonel Chiu.

 RW>> And then:

 RW>> Former Iraq weapons inspector David Kay, who caused controversy in
 RW>> 2004 when he said no weapons of mass destruction had been found in
 RW>> Iraq, says discovery of chemical munitions in Iraq should come as no
 RW>> surprise.

 RW>> He had this exchange with Ike Skelton, the top Democrat on the Arms
 RW>> Services Committee:

 RW>> SKELTON: "Was there evidence of stockpiles of at least 100 metric
 RW>> tons or as much as 500 metric tons of chemical agents?"

 RW>> KAY: "No, there was no evidence found of that."

 RW>> However, Frank Gaffney, a former defense official known for his
 RW>> hawkish views on Iraq, and now heading the Center for Security
 RW>> Policy, asserts there can no doubt about WMD in Iraq.

 RW>> "Whatever the derivation of this word was, in the current political
 RW>> parlance of this country, these weapons were weapons of mass
 RW>> destruction," said Frank Gaffney. "There remain WMD, I think almost
 RW>> certainly in considerable numbers in Iraq that could conceivably
 RW>> have some terrorist application."

 RW>> Thursday's public hearing of the Armed Services Committee was
 RW>> followed by a classified hearing behind closed doors, where military
 RW>> officials said they could provide lawmakers with further details
 RW>> regarding the 500 chemical shells found in Iraq.

 FS> She doesn't want to hear *any* of this as it is very embarrassing
 FS> to her and to other Bush-haters ... heh heh heh ...

True. Her rebuttal eliminated all of what was said in this report and she
inserted more left wing whacko website BS to support her first post on the
subject.

Dunno why left wingers don't use material from the everyday media like the
NY Times, they're just as whacko as those websites, but have the guts to
print it so everyone can make fun of them.


Roy
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