From The New York Sun:
The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein’s air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were re…

It’s good to know that “Gulf War Syndrome” is nothing but a total lie fabricated by evil left wing veterans.

By the way and not by and large the United States is currently this only country in history to use depleted uranium against targets in civilian populated areas. And currently is also the only military on the planet to use DU at all. So if I applied your same reasoning and hyperbolic extrapolation to say being an anti-US sentiment that would also be true because no other military uses toxic waste as a weapon against human beings other than the United States.
Hey listen man. My brother is stationed in Dayton. Before that he was at Kirtland. And before that Los Alamos. And before that he was at Livermore. I get most of my questions answered from him regarding physics.

We all appreciate your sense of patriotic duty. But would you let your kids play with depleted uranium? Would you tell your mother it’s good for her?

I know you’re one of those guys who think our government is infoulable and completely righteous in every endeavor. I wish I had your sense of unquestioning faith and resolve. But I don’t.

And the left wonders why we don’t respect their views…

I am sorry. My bad.
It was my mistake to think toxic waste was dangerous. Now I know better thanks to you. I am eternally grateful for your correction in the matter.

The people who are promoting this anti-DU hysteria have one, and only one, agenda, and it’s anti-US, because by and large it’s the US that uses DU munitions. Russia never got that many of them (prefering to use tungsten), and the Brits and other Europeans haven’t been involved in enough combat to have spread them around much.

And where in the world do you get the idea that the US sold WMD to Iraq? The ONLY thing I’ve ever seen about that that held any water was that Saddam’s biological people had ordered samples of various biological agents from the various US agencies that supply samples for research. There are labs in the US that can supply anthrax, as well as a variety of molds and other samples, that are used to test antibiotics, do genetic testing, provide samples to test mold resistance of materials and paints, etc. Some idiots got ahold of these lists and tried to make a case that the US had deliberately sold Saddam biowar materials, which is also another huge crock.

Uranium is pretty safe until you hurl at high speed.

It’s just a video. I didn’t film it. I am just telling you about it.

Don’t kill the messenger.

It is not my contention that Iraq wasn’t in posession of contraband weaponry. But instead that we had a very good idea of what he had because he bought the WMD from the United States.
No disagreement from me on the accounting of said weaponry.

But here’s a consideration. Bio-weapons have a short shelf life unles constantly incubated. And Chem-weapons have a longer life but it’s much more finite than say HMX.

And the Iraqi’s working for Aziz were total mother%^(**rs. You’re absolutely right.CIA guys dressed as inspectors didn’t help either.

Oh, what a load of happy horsesh!t that is! If this is what you are using as an example of a rational, honest assessment of the WMDs in Iraq, that’s like reading Code Pink’s web site for pro-war issues!

There isn’t enough radioactivity in an entire army worth of M1 anti-tank rounds to cause someones skin to melt off! This is just more of the anti-US, anti-War hysteria promoted by the extremists in Europe and around the world (sadly, including the US). I’ve worked around depeleted uranium for several years, no cancer, no illness, and my skin is still attached. The same idiots who claimed that they had proof that the US used white phosporus on civilians because they’d found people with their clothes intact who looked like they’d been burned! WP will NOT spare clothes. The bodies they showed had not been exposed to WP, they had been killed in a rather normal and undistinguished manner, and had started to decay under the intense heat. I’ve seen my share of decayed bodies unfortunately, and nothing they showed looked abnormal to me. But, hey, what’s a little thing like facts and honesty when you’re on the good fight against the Evil Empire of GWBush eh?

Sheese, the things people believe and hold up as proof these days.

The whole inspection program was a massive joke. Give them plenty of warning, show up, get locked out while they could see trucks leaving by the back gate, tables full of documents that were used to obscure more than to inform, presses of Iraqi’s thonging around the tables full of documents whenever they started to look at them, shifting things around, etc. etc. ad nauseum. It figures that a corrupt, decadent, and useless organization like the UN would consider that an “effective” inspection program.

I’ve lost the links, but there have been numerous articles by members of the inspection teams documenting the nefarious things the Iraqi’s did to thwart the inspections, but they don’t get repeated often by the MSM, for obvious reasons.

I have numerous reasons for believing that Iraq did have WMD, and that they are in Syria or other countries at present. And you’re right, Iraq did have more conventional munitions than you could shake a stick at. If they surprised us on that account, I don’t believe it should be a surprise to consider that that they pulled the wool over the eyes of the inspectors on WMDs. One issue that’s not gotten the press it should have is the widespread murder of Iraqi scientists and engineers that has occured in Iraq after the war. These are the people who know the truth, someone is killing them, and I doubt it’s the US. Many of them have admitted to having stored material and documents in their homes to hide them from the inspectors. What else might have they been able to tell us if they were still alive?

Put aside about an hour to watch the interviews. Unfortunately you have to trudge through all the parts of dying children that were exposed depleted uranium from US ordinance. Some of them have their skin literally melting from radiation sickness. Listen to the numbers.

It’s all true. It’s not a big deal.
Scott Ritter even wrote a book about it.

The point being was that whatever weapons are missing or unaccounted for are small in number and that will make them difficult to find .

Besides you said you have no respect for journalism. So what’s with your MSM issue?

This was on all the European, Asian, Arab and African networks.

Do you really think you get unfiltered news here in the states?

I remember UNSCOM stating that the vast majority of WMD were verifiably dismantled and destroyed. I am almost positive that almost 95% of Iraqs stockpile was accounted for. The rest Saddam said he destroyed. And they have never been found or accounted for.

The Swede they (UN) sent attested the same and then quit when the US corupted UNSCOM with CIA operatives. His successor Scott Ritter said the same thing. He also ultimately quit too stating disruption by the CIA made it impossible to perform their duties. It was both of their contentions that the CIA was as much an impedement to disarming Iraq as Saddam and Tariq Aziz. The problem was the CIA got made early by the Iraqi Intelligence. But they refused to leave and Saddam refused to cooperate.

What is not widely known is that Iraq had a stockpile of conventional ordinance that was at the time significantly larger than the US.
This explains the rash of IED’s that having killing and mutilating or troops.

This whole issue is still open in my view. I firmly believe that Iraq did indeed have chem/bio weapons and the material and equipment to make more, and that these were spirited out of the country in our year and a half “race” to war.

At the very least, an honest and open minded person would still view the claim that no WMDs were there suspiciously. Unfortunately, we are beset by partisans who are willing to say anything to smear this current administration for partisan political reasons.

That was the correct answer.