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to: Gary Britt
from: Robert Comer
date: 2005-11-08 10:01:08
subject: Re: 500-ton Uranium stockpile

From: "Robert Comer" 

> 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium

Low-enriched uranium, not a WMD.

> 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents

Verifiable source of active weapons agents?  You'd think Bush would be
trumpeting such a find, but he isn't, hmmmm.

> 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more
> deadly than sarin gas)

Left over from before gulf war one, probably sold to Iraq by us.

> Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over
> populated areas

> Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and "conventional" sarin
gas, assembled
> in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency

These are  more of those things that Bush would trumpet but hasn't...

> This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been
> recovered in Iraq to date. Yet Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and
> coalition forces have found NO weapons of mass destruction. The question
> is:
> WHY do they believe this lie?

Simple, nobody has verified the truth of the weapons.

--
Bob Comer


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:43703bc8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> From Powerlineblog.com
>
> WMDs Found in Iraq!
>
> 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
>
> 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
>
> 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more
> deadly than sarin gas)
>
> Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over
> populated areas
>
> Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and "conventional" sarin
gas, assembled
> in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency
>
> This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been
> recovered in Iraq to date. Yet Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and
> coalition forces have found NO weapons of mass destruction. The question
> is:
> WHY do they believe this lie?
>
> Richard Miniter explains why these and other popular media factoids and
> urban legends are not only wrong, but severely damaging to our war effort,
> in Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:43702a7a$3{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Piles of unrefined uranium are rather easy to acquire, if that was the
> same
>> thing as an atomic bomb there would be a lot more little dictators with
>> atomic weapons.
>>
>> Geo.
>> 2
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:436f9c54$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the fuel air bomb reference.
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > "Geo"  wrote in message
news:436e8d7c{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > > That's a fair addition but by that same line of
reasoning using that
> to
>> > > claim that he has 15,000 lb fuel air bombs and a way to
deliver them
> to
>> > the
>> > > US is a bit of a stretch.
>> > >
>> > > Geo.
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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