Is this what you are talking about Kidrock?
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 -- U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.
Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, "some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.
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Combined, the chemicals would yield an agent capable of "lingering hazards" for those exposed to it, Boylan said. The likely targets would have been "coalition and Iraqi security forces, and Iraqi civilians," partly because the chemicals would be difficult to keep from spreading over a wide area, he said.
Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from some time after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Bush administration cited evidence that Saddam Hussein's government was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for the invasion. No such weapons or factories were found.
Military officials did not immediately identify either the precursors or the agent they could have produced. "We don't want to speculate on any possibilities until our analysis is complete," Col. Henry Franke, a nuclear, biological and chemical defense officer, was quoted as saying in a military statement.
Investigators still were trying to determine who had assembled the alleged lab and whether the expertise came from foreign insurgents or former members of Hussein's security apparatus, the military said.
"They're looking into it," Boylan said. "They've got to go through it -- there's a lot of stuff there." He added that there was no indication that U.S. forces would be ordered to carry chemical warfare gear, such as gas masks and chemical suits, as they did during the invasion and the months immediately afterward.
U.S. military photos of the alleged lab showed a bare concrete-walled room scattered with stacks of plastic containers, coiled tubing, hoses and a stand holding a large metal device that looked like a distillery. Black rubber boots lay among the gear.
The suspected chemical weapons lab was the biggest found so far in Iraq, Boylan said. A lab discovered last year in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah contained a how-to book on chemical weapons and an unspecified amount of chemicals.
Chemical weapons are divided into the categories of "persistent" agents, which wreak damage for hours, such as blistering agents or the oily VX nerve agent, and "nonpersistent" ones, which dissipate quickly, such as chlorine gas or sarin nerve gas.
Iraqi forces under Hussein used chemical agents both on enemy forces in the 1980s war with Iran and on Iraqi Kurdish villagers in 1988. Traces of a variety of killing agents -- mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX -- were detected by investigators after the 1988 attack.
No chemical weapons are known to have been used so far in Iraq's insurgency. Al Qaeda announced after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States that it was looking into acquiring biological, radiological and chemical weapons. The next year, CNN obtained and aired al Qaeda videotapes showing the killings of three dogs with what were believed to be nerve agents.
If that's what you're talking about kidrock, your argument holds no water.
Originally posted by redcaped
If I can just "refresh" your mind. Saddan in power said something really ugly "as much as they want to live we want them dead and I'll be seeing them leaving in plastic bags"...ok? And also people from Iraq including children were happy after 911, celebrating and burning the US flag.
Even Iran has condemned the Spetember 11th attacks. No one was celebrating except for handful of mentally insane people.
Listen to all the crap Bush said after 9-11. "Crusade"?
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Good point.My point was that they didn't mean it.
You can't say that. Many Iranians were probably shacked at the events of 9/11.
It's funny how people always see the other side as monsters, you claiming that you know what they feel or meant despite them saying otherwise is just propagating ignorance.
Originally posted by KharmaDog
You can't say that. Many Iranians were probably shacked at the events of 9/11.It's funny how people always see the other side as monsters, you claiming that you know what they feel or meant despite them saying otherwise is just propagating ignorance.
Let's be honest; we're talking about Iran here.
I'd be willing to bet that well over 50% of the population were indifferent or happy that it happened. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Originally posted by KharmaDog
You can't say that. Many Iranians were probably shacked at the events of 9/11.It's funny how people always see the other side as monsters, you claiming that you know what they feel or meant despite them saying otherwise is just propagating ignorance.
The people of Iran are not the problem, I would not be surprised if they where shocked at 9-11. The problem is the government of Iran.
Iran's Government is good at turning their Population, the last leader actually somewhat supported us, mainly because they hate Iraq. The current nutjob is inspiring the Youth with Jihad and such, they can do so because Islam has no Pope-like figure, this Nutjob says what goes
As to Bush topic, STFU Canadians, Bush may not be great, but he's the best we'll get, and was very strong towards the beginning, he's just went down in 05. Stop sitting back like 12 Year Olds and calling "*******!" and laughing