From: Jack@MilVeh.com
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 14:10:09 PDT
Thought 90% of the list would enjoy this, 10% will
not...so my appologies to those few. For them, please
stop reading right now and continue on with something
more important or more MV related. Thanks.
Now the news:
Certain people among us still insist that Iraq had no
(zip, zero, nada) weapons of mass destruction when the
U.S. attacked in March, citing the scant evidence of
any actual weapons finds by U.S. arms inspector, David
Kay.
Lost in the debate over why U.S. weapons inspectors
have yet to uncover the Iraqi version of the Manhattan
Project is this salient factoid: Not only did Saddam's
regime admit to possessing thousands of tons of lethal
chemical and biological agents - Baghdad gave a
detailed inventory of their WMD arsenal to the United
Nations.
This week's "Weekly Standard" revisits Baghdad's 1998
WMD mea culpa - complete with a laundry list of the
frightening weapons that the press continues to
suggest were a figment of the Bush administration's
imagination.
Just before Iraq kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors in
1998, Saddam admitted he had:
At least 3.9 tons of deadly VX nerve gas, along with
805 tons of precursor ingredients for the production
of more VX.
4,000 tons of ingredients to produce other types of
poison gas.
8,500 liters of anthrax.
500 bombs fitted with parachutes for the purpose of
delivering poison gas or germ payloads.
550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas.
107,500 casings for chemical weapons. • 157 aerial
bombs filled with germ agents.
25 missile warheads containing germ agents, including
anthrax, aflatoxin, and botulinum.
Again, the above arsenal is NOT what U.S. or European
intelligence said it suspected Baghdad had. These are
the WMD's that Saddam himself admitted he had.
It's also worth noting that the overwhelming majority
of the WMDs Saddam admitted he had went completely
undetected by U.N. weapons inspectors who combed Iraq
for 12 years.
Still, thanks to the media's five-month-long campaign
to discredit the Iraq war - not to mention the
horrible job done by the White House public relations
team - most Americans have no idea that questions
about whether Iraq was in recent possession of WMD's
have already been answered - and answered by no less
an authority than Saddam Hussein himself.]
Next time some twit tries to extoll the innocence of
Saddam, you might mention this little bit of
historical trivia. lol
P.S. Too bad we can't import all that seized Iraqi
small arms ammo for plinking by USA gun owners.
Billions of rounds of assorted ball ammo is going to
be burned or blown up. What a shame.
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