[nicephoras]

By the Danes, working with Iceland. Its blister gas, and it has been buried for over 10 years. Final analysis pending.

The link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...chemicals_dc_5

[bostonsoccermdl]

interesting.. There have been so many false alerts though, I am not holding my breathe..

[Nogra Rover]

Originally posted by bostonsoccermdl
interesting.. There have been so many false alerts though, I am not holding my breathe..

We'll see what this is, but if I recall correctly, Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Wolfie et al never mentioned blister gas.

[bostonsoccermdl]

Originally posted by Nogra Rover
We'll see what this is, but if I recall correctly, Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Wolfie et al never mentioned blister gas.

I couldnt tell from the post, but it seems like you might be making excuses already...

this:...... "Blister gas, an illegal weapon which ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) said he had destroyed, was extensively used against the Iranians during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war."

...is key. You can argue about how dangerous it is, etc, but it goes a far in beginning to justify the war.

[Attacking Minded]

Originally posted by bostonsoccermdl
interesting.. There have been so many false alerts though, I am not holding my breathe..

Of course no pun intended.

I too think we should wait and see.

[fidlerre]

Originally posted by bostonsoccermdl
I couldnt tell from the post, but it seems like you might be making excuses already...

You can argue about how dangerous it is, etc, but it goes far in beginning to justify the war.

okay, but once again a key little note in the article:

The Danish army said the rounds had been buried for at least 10 years.

was bush really pointing to weapons buried for 10 years when he said that iraq still had an "active chemical weapons program" and listed it as one of the few reasons to go to war against iraq?

ya know, i bet if we went digging we could find all sorts of old chemical weapons that have been buried for 10 years all over the iraqi desert.

this find means nothing...

[VFish]

Leftovers from the Iran-Iraq war? Hope they didn't find a receipt also.

[Mel Brennan]

Originally posted by bostonsoccermdl
...You can argue about how dangerous it is, etc, but it goes a far in beginning to justify the war.

This is as funny as your avatar is lovely.

[Dan Loney]

Originally posted by bostonsoccermdl
You can argue about how dangerous it is, etc, but it goes a far in beginning to justify the war.

Seeing as how it was dug up and used against the troops...wait....

[DoyleG]

Originally posted by fidlerre

was bush really pointing to weapons buried for 10 years when he said that iraq still had an "active chemical weapons program" and listed it as one of the few reasons to go to war against iraq?

Having a stockpile, even if buried for 10 years, is still evidence of a chemical weapons program. All they would have to do is to dig up the shells and salvage the contents.

Originally posted by fidlerre
ya know, i bet if we went digging we could find all sorts of old chemical weapons that have been buried for 10 years all over the iraqi desert.

this find means nothing...

Easier to hide such weapons in a hole in the ground out in the middle of nowhere.

Burying such weapon stockpiles is part of military stratagies.

They found weapons regardless of how old they are.