Also Erich, WHY DIDN’T HANS BLIX FIND THESE??? Before you try to use that superior intellect, try to answer this question. Since he was in that country in 2002, these weapons probably had not decayed to an useable state. As far as the rest of your post it is more of the blah blah blah off tangent comments that libs make all the time.

As far as Sudan goes, I have written emails to US Senators, congressman and A US President (Billy Bob), advocating a need to do something. I have prayed for this situation for over 15 years, so you just finding out about it last week, and then throwing it in my face means little to nothing to me. Just like Hollywood, why is it Rwanda was only known to be a problem after a movie was made, but Pat Robertson, the man you libs love to hate, was there from virtually the start of the genocide. Even your hero Billy Bob didn’t mention Rwanda for over 2 months, then he said something in passing. You people are pathetic with your hypocracy, and it is growing old.

As far as the Iraqi people, we are there to help them. Over 250 Mass Graves have been identified by the US Military. The pictures are horrendous, bodies just thrown in a pit and buried with a bull dozer. The estimate number of bodies is above 500,000 according to the Army. Again your selective memory makes your argument pathetic. – Lorica

Oh that’s beautiful. So Saddam didn’t realize that he had illegal weapons in his country. Yeah, right. Kind of like “Damn, where did I put those illegal chemical weapons???”

Here’s something for you to check out, there Heinrich:

Just in case you have “trouble” with the link, the article talks about a recording on which Saddam talks about hiding weapons and deceiving weapons inspectors. The same inspectors who are now trying to cover their collecetive a**es.

But maybe Saddam lied! He was lying on tape just in case his country was invaded and he needed to setup GW who was still governor of Texas! Brilliant!

It’s amazing how people like you want to wait until the threat is “imminent” and then have no clue on how to deal with the situation. We waited with North Korea, you know, the country that has a nuclear missle ready to go that can reach the U.S. So now what do we do? Do we wait until the missle has been launched? Then is it an imminent threat?

Why don’t you leave foreign policy to the grown ups, if we need someone to hug a tree, we’ll give you a call.

And as for the Sudan (I assume you mean the genocide in Darfur), if you thought Iraq was tough, wait until you step into this hornet’s nest. An on-again/off-again civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan and a simmering conflict with Chad and Libya thrown in to boot. Yep – a piece of cake. Just like Somalia and Rwanda and other success stories the “humanitarians” started but failed to finish.

Do you have an explanation for why the Iraqi troops were given these lethal weapons, and then did not use them?

I would expect these remnants were missed for the same reason WWII landmines are still found in modern Europe today – because people lose track of things. Which also explains why nuclear power is such a bad idea, as the waste will never survive thousands of years in safe storage.

Why do the folks here talk about freeing Iraqis? The reason we went to war was not to help an innocent population, if that were our cause we would be in Sudan instead. I am confident the average Democrat would gladly spend more on humanitarian aid than the average Republican. The reason we went to war is because George Bush lied and said the country had WMDs. I certainly believe David Kay over Karl Rove as to the lethality of the remants which have been found.

Cheers my friends!

- Course, for my money they can go right on doing what they’re doing. At some point the moderate Democrats are going to be forced to cut them free. They’ve become more of a liability than anything good they might bring for the party. They still havn’t learned the hard lesson that extremism scares the hell out of people. Probably never will.

- Bang

Are you calling the military officer who testified to Congress a liar? He stated otherwise. What are your credentials?

Kay used the word “probably”. The Iraqi’s will be free. Do you have a problem with that in your world Mr. Third Erich?

LINK

June 30, 2006 | WASHINGTON — House Republicans convened a high-powered panel of experts Thursday to give them the straight story on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. “Just the facts,” demanded California’s Duncan Hunter, who chairs the Armed Services Committee. “The facts are the facts,” seconded Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania. A tourist passing through the Rayburn House Office Building might have mistaken all the blunt rhetoric for a sincere search for the truth.

But then David Kay, the CIA’s former chief weapons hunter in Iraq, took a seat before the committee. He had been called to explain the importance of a recently unclassified report on about 500 chemical warheads dating from the 1980s that the military had found in Iraq. Republicans had released the report with much fanfare last week. “This is critically important information that the world community needs to know,” Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had blared. “We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

Kay calmly explained why Santorum’s enthusiasm was misplaced. As far back as September 2004, the CIA had disclosed the discovery of the old chemical munitions from Iraq’s war with Iran. The CIA also explained that these weapons were not the ones the Bush administration had used to justify the invasion of Iraq. What’s more, Kay said, the decades-old sarin nerve gas was probably no more dangerous than household pesticides — and far more likely to degrade at room temperature. “In terms of toxicity, sir,” Kay told Weldon at one point, “I suspect in your house, and I know in my house, I have things that are more toxic than sarin produced from 1984 to 1988.”

These were not the facts Weldon wanted to hear. The House member quickly lost his cool. “There is nothing under my sink that could be classified as a weapon of mass destruction or violate the Chemical Weapons Convention,” he thundered. “I think that is the kind of irresponsible statement that causes these kind of misperceptions out there. It’s the kind of generalization that, in my opinion, is just plain stupid.”

To say locating these weapons is worth $1 trillion and tens of thousands of American and Iraqi lives reveals a deep level of denial and inability to admit error. These have no relation to the mushroom cloud we were warned about.

If Iraq did have WMD’s why were they not used? What was Sadddam Hussein waiting for, a more appropriate time to use them than a US invasion?

E’ ufficiale: in Iraq le armi chimiche c’erano. E le loro caratteristiche rientrano, come spiega il Dipartimento della Difesa americano (via The American Thinker) nella categoria “armi di distruzione di massa” prevista dalla Chemical Weapons Conven…