Gee whillackers, Pa! They just came on the “news” again to say they really did find WMDs in Iraq! Yep, but the right wingers forgot to mention that what they found was just what the inspectors said they’d find: expired and long buried and disposed of artillery shells that we supplied for Saddam’s war against Iran, and had long ago lost their functionality as weapons.
Hmm hint; over time with exposure, even that Ebola virus dies, and becomes harmless.
So, the Cheney/Bush strategy should kick in and we bomb the crappolini out of all West African nations so Ebola can’t “come here” and form a mushroom shaped panic button.
A note: mustard agent shells from WW I still occasionally show up, and though there’s no way they could be fired, the contents are still dangerous. Nerve agents however degrade substantially fairly quickly actually, which was the tricky business when they started eliminating chemical munitions in Oregon a number of years ago by incineration.
Which these remnant rounds indeed WERE known to exist in some numbers. But they were no longer “servicable”. In the 91 escapade it was the destruction of these type rounds in a pit that wounded a number of our own troops. In a unit of around 100 guys, 30 something came down with ALS, when the normal rate would be about 1 per 100,000 population. But the Bush folks declared “no harm, no foul” on our part- that was 41 AND “junior” btw.
It’s like the current pictures of these Iraq “warplanes” that ISIL is being trained to fly, have you noticed they’re dusty and white from all the bird poop on them? Then back in 03 there was the MIG 25 they found, BURIED, and swore it could be just dusted off and flown.
A few rounds left behind isn’t anywhere near the massive tonnage Bushco claimed existed, and there was no nuclear program at all, so the basis for the war was known then, and still today, to be a blatant pack of lies.
William Rivers Pitt does have a take on that Times story btw, and I have his book written with Ritter back in 2002, before the war, and what they said in that book still stands as correct.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 9 years ago
Some people have all the luck.
moosemin over 9 years ago
The “breaking news” will probably be about Justin Bieber getting arrested again!
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Gee whillackers, Pa! They just came on the “news” again to say they really did find WMDs in Iraq! Yep, but the right wingers forgot to mention that what they found was just what the inspectors said they’d find: expired and long buried and disposed of artillery shells that we supplied for Saddam’s war against Iran, and had long ago lost their functionality as weapons.
Hmm hint; over time with exposure, even that Ebola virus dies, and becomes harmless.
So, the Cheney/Bush strategy should kick in and we bomb the crappolini out of all West African nations so Ebola can’t “come here” and form a mushroom shaped panic button.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 9 years ago
I can hear Joe Biden saying “this is a big freaking deal.”
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
A note: mustard agent shells from WW I still occasionally show up, and though there’s no way they could be fired, the contents are still dangerous. Nerve agents however degrade substantially fairly quickly actually, which was the tricky business when they started eliminating chemical munitions in Oregon a number of years ago by incineration.
Which these remnant rounds indeed WERE known to exist in some numbers. But they were no longer “servicable”. In the 91 escapade it was the destruction of these type rounds in a pit that wounded a number of our own troops. In a unit of around 100 guys, 30 something came down with ALS, when the normal rate would be about 1 per 100,000 population. But the Bush folks declared “no harm, no foul” on our part- that was 41 AND “junior” btw.
It’s like the current pictures of these Iraq “warplanes” that ISIL is being trained to fly, have you noticed they’re dusty and white from all the bird poop on them? Then back in 03 there was the MIG 25 they found, BURIED, and swore it could be just dusted off and flown.
A few rounds left behind isn’t anywhere near the massive tonnage Bushco claimed existed, and there was no nuclear program at all, so the basis for the war was known then, and still today, to be a blatant pack of lies.
William Rivers Pitt does have a take on that Times story btw, and I have his book written with Ritter back in 2002, before the war, and what they said in that book still stands as correct.