And let it be noted.. we were right.

Its an old story.

They have been finding small traces of old-chemicals in shells for a while.

That =/= imminent threatening stockpiles.

BUT it throws out all of the anit-war peoples defense of "No WMD's found hence no WMD's exist".

Plus, even though some of it is degraded.. I'd love to see if you'd be willing to bury it in your back yard.

I mean.. if it isnt dangerous or anything.....

Edited by Linus - 21 June 2006 at 11:38pm

i give this 1 hour before it hits 4 pages.

Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"

DeTrevni wrote:

i give this 1 hour before it hits 4 pages.

il take that bet

Linus wrote:

NotDaveEllis wrote:

Denote how the only two people coming out are two republicans.

Note how 2 democratic news services have said nothing about it (CNN / MSNBC).

Goes both ways buddy.

Becuase it is not a news-worthy story.

They have had stories of finding munitions shells with old-gas in it. It is simply not a big deal.

It seems it is only the people grasping for the straws of support for the war that feel the need to flip out and point to a depleted mustard gas shell dated 1985 and screaming "HA PROOF!"

If this was groundbreaking news do you think it would have been withheld for 3 whole years?

ridesnowbrdr wrote:

Why's it so hard to believe a selfish nation went to war for selfish reasons?

Explain if youre going to spit our rhetoric.

Linus wrote:

Before we went in in '03 he said he got rid of them all. This right here shows he didn't. Proof that he couldnt be trusted.

our own government can't be trusted, that doesn't mean we go to war with it...

point still stands we knew he had them before and we never denied he still had the depleted stuff lying around.

Linus wrote:

Stock pile==== stock·pile ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stkpl)
n.
A supply stored for future use.

Dictionary's are not good for this kinda thing. The connotation of Stockpile is a very large, active, ready to use group. That is not the case here.

Before we went in in '03 he said he got rid of them all. This right here shows he didn't. Proof that he couldnt be trusted.

Ok. Why not let the UN guys find them? If they found them, would we still invade?

Again, not all of those munitions are "depleted". It all varies on many variables. Some are some aren't.

Are you a millitary expert? I am strictly going on what has been reported, and that is that the gas is aged beyond use.

The story you posted yourself said:

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

But answer this question-- would you put some of those "depleted" munitions in your back yard?

Rhetoric. Useless.

Would you like to tell the familys of the soldiers who have died that their husbands, wifes, children, fathers, mothers, died so the world would be safe from some old depleted mustard gas?

My guess would be no.

If it's old news, why does the majority of the anti-war movement still claim no WMD's found? Ignorance?

Becuase the way WMD was used to convince people of this war, does not equal the depleted gas shells.

Edited by Tae Kwon Do - 21 June 2006 at 11:57pm