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Originally Posted by I B Hankering
.... Found WMD's however, they were the one's that USA had designed and sold to Iraq back in the 1980's And David killed Goliath with a slingshot, flighty, and the slingshot is no less lethal today than it was 2,000 years ago: "old" doesn't automatically equate to "non-lethal
The weapons that Iraq had purchased from the USA back in 1980 and were found during the 2003 invasion of Iraq had corroded to the point where they were no longer functional. So your comparison to sling shot used in 3000 years B.C. is nonsense. You should go back and read the link from the New York times you Fucking Idiot.
Bush was not talking about finding weapons that the USA had already sold to IRAQ. He was talking about new weapon systems.
You are perfectly okay with spending 2 trillion dollars and having 4 thousand people die to find weapon systems that the USA had already sold to Iraq some 25 years ago?
What a moron.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...pons.html?_r=1
http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=1194858&highl ight=
From the nytimes link.
Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been
designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by
Western companies.
All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.