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Skriven 2006-07-18 09:51:26 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
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18 Jul 06 07:50, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 FS> -=> Quoting Roy Witt to Frank Scheidt <=-

 >>>>> 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
 RW>>> the shells] is toxic, with potential to be lethal," said Colonel
 RW>>> 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
 RW>>> no 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
 RW>>> military officials said they could provide lawmakers with further
 RW>>> details 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 ...

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

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

 FS> Probably because, as in so many of their attempts, they fail to
 FS> use logic and just post what they're told ...

That has to be it.


Roy
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