Lost and Found: Phosgene at UNMOVIC »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsOver the last 24 hours, representatives of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Unit (UNMOVIC) discovered dangerous vials of phosgene, a chemical warfare agent, in an old file cabinet. The samples had been seized from Iraq back in 1996, when UNMOVIC inspectors examined a former chemical weapons plant at Al Muthanna.
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spellbreak1 year, 1 month ago
Is that part of the various stuff which we supplied to Saddam?
Much, maybe most, of what he used against Iran and against the Kurds, was of our supply. We continued to support him long after it was known that he had used poison gas,
Remember, he was our guy. Just as the Shab was our guy. And most of the other terrible oppressors of the area.
We equipped, supplied and trained.
As to having dangerous stuff on the loose ...
Some months before we demanded the Iraqis account for all of their weapons within a month, and they very nearly actually were able to do it, one of our U.S. auditing outfits declared that the Pentagon could not account for about 1 trillion dollars worth of stuff including arms, munitions, tanks, trucks and other vehicles, boats, planes, missles, rockets, and at least 9 nuclear war heads. I think the Pentagon believes that know where three are, but can't bet at them, but the location of the rest remains a mystery.
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tiredofnonsense1 year, 1 month ago
The samples had been seized from Iraq back in 1996, when UNMOVIC inspectors examined a former chemical weapons plant at Al Muthanna.
The missing WMD's?
and no we didn't supply him with that, he was manufacturing it on his own, note reference to weapons plant, and phosegene is among the chemicals the military found after the invasion.
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earthlingerer1 year, 1 month ago
Oh, sorry...
Is that the stuff we sold him the equipment and instruction books to make, not to mention the "official manual" on it's use?
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Charlson1 year, 1 month ago
If you had bothered to read further, the article states that those chemicals were like the kind used during WWI and were not considered WMDs.
"As far as WMD goes, this isn't much of a story. Phosgene is an old-school chemical weapon, used extensively for gas attacks during World War I. It was part of the U.S. arsenal for much of the last century, usually delivered via mortar rounds or bombs--not until 1969 did our military dispose of its supplies."
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
--and no we didn't supply him with that
When Ronnie Raygun took Iraq of the nations who sponser terrorist back in 1982, not only did the US government supply him with 4 billion dollars in cash to purchase weapons and technology, but that move also made it possible for our allies to sell to them as well. He recieved all he needed to produce chemical and biological weapons thanks to Raygun. So your right we didn't actually supply him, we made it possible for him to supply himself.
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spellbreak1 year, 1 month ago
Is that part of the various stuff which we supplied to Saddam?
Much, maybe most, of what he used against Iran and against the Kurds, was of our supply. We continued to support him long after it was known that he had used poison gas,
Remember, he was our guy. Just as the Shab was our guy. And most of the other terrible oppressors of the area.
We equipped, supplied and trained.
As to having dangerous stuff on the loose ...
Some months before we demanded the Iraqis account for all of their weapons within a month, and they very nearly actually were able to do it, one of our U.S. auditing outfits declared that the Pentagon could not account for about 1 trillion dollars worth of stuff including arms, munitions, tanks, trucks and other vehicles, boats, planes, missles, rockets, and at least 9 nuclear war heads. I think the Pentagon believes that know where three are, but can't bet at them, but the locations of the rest remain a mystery.
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disraeli1 year, 1 month ago
I think that DavidHalko needs to check this story, he is desperately trying to prove on other threads that the WMD's were shipped out of Iraq to Syria or Russia or Belarus or where ever. It turns out he is right, the WMD's were smuggled out of Iraq and taken to New York city.
Wily, that's all I can say very wily.
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
No no no, their on a boat that is still steaming around the Indian ocean. Heeheeheee...
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dwemm1 year, 1 month ago
I think probably Colin Powell left it there after his speech at the UN.
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rockman0691 year, 1 month ago
Of course. Kids pull even more dangerous items off the internet--I'm sure any budding dictator can do the same...
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