Text 48850, 55 rader
Skriven 2007-03-27 05:58:36 av shannon talley
     Kommentar till en text av Ward Dossche
Ärende: Re: Any or all
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Hello Ward,

> No WMDs were found and a complete country plus its population as well as 
> most
> of the region in fact was destabilised. The whole world has become a lot 
> more
> unsafe and the US has never had as many dedicated enemies as it has today.

To state unequivocally there were no WMD's is absolutely incorrect and 
doesn't coincide with the final UN inspection report.

Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons 
munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent.

Various nuclear facilities, including the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility 
and Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, were found looted in the month 
following the invasion. (Gellman, 3 May 2003) On June 20, 2003, the 
International Atomic Energy Agency reported that tons of uranium, as well as 
other radioactive materials such as thorium, had been recovered, and that 
the vast majority had remained on site. There were several reports of 
radiation sickness in the area.

On May 16, 2004 a 152mm artillery shell was used as an improvised 
bomb.(Iraq's Chemical Warfare Program Annex F. Retrieved on 2005-06-29.) The 
shell exploded and two U.S. soldiers were treated for minor exposure to a 
nerve agent (nausea and dilated pupils). On May 18 it was reported by U.S. 
Department of Defense intelligence officials that tests showed the 
two-chambered shell contained the chemical agent sarin, the shell being 
"likely" to have contained three to four liters of the substance (in the 
form of its two unmixed precursor chemicals prior to the aforementioned 
explosion that had not effectively mixed them).

On October 3, 2003, the world digests David Kay's Iraq Survey Group report 
that finds no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, although it states the government 
intended to develop more weapons with additional capabilities. Weapons 
inspectors in Iraq do find some "biological laboratories" and a collection 
of "reference strains", including a strain of botulinum bacteria, "ought to 
have been declared to the UN." Kay testifies that Iraq had not fully 
complied with UN inspections. In some cases, equipment and materials subject 
to UN monitoring had been kept hidden from UN inspectors. "So there was a 
WMD program. It was going ahead. It was rudimentary in many areas", Kay 
would say in a later interview. In other cases, Iraq had simply lied to the 
UN in its weapons programs.The US-sponsored search for WMD had at this point 
cost $300 million and was projected to cost around $600 million more.

In addition, if there weren't coalition troops sitting right next to Iran at 
this moment, who would keep that country in 'check' while they attempt to 
come up with a means in which to completely destroy Israel?

Cheers!
Shannon


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