Did they really find WMD in Iraq or did the Republicans lie again?

Question

- Found Some WMD


About 500 artillery shells of Iraq/Iran war vintage with (degraded) Sarin component.
A couple of wacky Republicans are trying to make this into something.
So we've paid five soldiers lives and about $1 Billion per shell. (so far -- the meter is still running).

Meanwhile, a deal on the estate tax repeal is nearly complete, leaving more of the borrowed cost of this war on the shoulders of future working-class Americans. You don't expect the rich who inherit their vast wealth to pay for Bush's excesses do you? That would be unfair.
Of course the soldiers who go over there to die for the lies -- they and their families are paying a huge price. Someone has to do it so the top 1% can escape paying their fair share. Freedom ain't free, as you Bush Sheep like to say.

Answer 1

The guy saying that Sarin cannot degrade is incorrect. You're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts, gentlemen.

"According to a U.N. report last year, Iraq claimed that there was "no industrial-scale production" of the agent. During the early 1990s after the Persian Gulf War, Iraq emptied many of its sarin shells under U.N. supervision. The sarin agent has a limited shelf life unless stored under carefully controlled conditions, Buchanan said."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-05-17-sarin_x.htm


"Sarin has a relatively short shelf life, and will degrade after a period of several weeks to several months. The shelf life may be greatly shortened by impurities in precursor materials. According to the CIA [1], in 1989 the Iraqis destroyed 40 or more tons of sarin that had decomposed, and that some Iraqi sarin had a shelf life of only a few weeks owing mostly to impure precursors."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
http://www.fas.org/irp/gulf/cia/960715/72569.htm


Sarin is a deadly weapon, but not after it has decayed for 20 years. The sarin in these shells has long since lost its properties and was more or less worthless. It is no more dangerous than toxic waste in the degraded form, hardly a 'weapon of mass destruction'.

The assertions made by many before the war were that Iraq had thousands of tons of Bio-chemical weapons and was actively producing them. The keyword: active. These shells are all from before the FIRST gulf war which was in 1991. This means they were likely from the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s and were not symblomatic of any modern Iraqi WMD effort. Iraq did NOT have stockpiles of WMD, they had depleted sarin shells they probably forgot they buried in some part of their desert hellhole. Depleted sarin is not a weapon, let alone a WMD. 500 shells are not stockpiles, especially if they contain unweaponized material.

The bottom line is that Bush and crew overstated their hand by an extreme margin.

Answer 2

Funny how you people talk and talk, but never prove and lies. The truth is, it wouldn't matter if you tripped over them, you would still deny it and call the President a liar. The thing that is most amazing about this declassification is that it wasn't just discovered yesterday. The Administration has been "sitting" on this intelligence, while at the same time, taking the slanderous rantings of the unpatriots.

It is not true that the sarin is degraded, it's not like mustard gas. Our troops definitely were at risk from this stuff. I know, why should you bother to check your facts when it is easier to say something that supports your hatred?

Answer 3

Neither. The best intelligence at the time indicated that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. They have yet to be found in significant quantities. There is some indication that they may have been moved to the Bekka Valley in Syria just prior to the Coalition invasion. Only time will tell.

Answer 4

They did not find WMD's but we know they exist because we sold them to the former Shah of Iran, and Hussein confiscated them when he took over. I still wish our people could come home, though.

Answer 5

Save it for the forums. Yahoo! Answers is a poor place to debate an issue.

Answer 6

Are you asking a Question or making a Statement?

Answer 7

If they have been found, let's see them, otherwise the Republicans perpetuate the lie

Answer 8

Nope - no lie.

In fact I knew about them when I was in Iraq.

The question you should be asking is: "Why did not the news media tell you about this before?"

Answer 9

Uninformed fool, it was not the republicans that reported the weapons cache, it was the liberal news agencies!

Answer 10

Lie again, of course!!