From: "George Sherwood" 

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:50:01 +0200, Phil Payne wrote:

>> > They weren't carefully stored for future use.  What part of:
>> >
>> > "'This does not reflect a capacity that was built up
after 1991,' the
>> > official said, adding the munitions 'are not the WMDs this country and
> the
>> > rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this
> country
>> > went to war.''"
>> >
>> > do you have a problem with?
>>
>> If you can read, you would see I don't have a problem with it.  But you
>> are fooling yourself if you think these were just
"lost".  They weren't
>> buried.
>
> "According to The Washington Post, Representative Peter Hoekstra, chairman
> of the House intelligence committee and Senator Rick Santorum made the
> announcement, based on an unclassified summary from a report by the National
> Ground Intelligence Center regarding 500 chemical munitions shells that had
> been buried near the Iranian border."
>
> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1534832/20060622/index.jhtml?headlines=true
>
> Actually looks like a tactical logistical decision back in 1988 - when no
> one disputes they had them.
>
> And it's _entirely_ possible that the results of their first use so
> horrified Saddam that _he_ had them taken out of us.

Possible, but it really don't match the transcripts of the recordings from
his office. It also doesn't match his efforts that were documented by the
UN Inspection group. But all the talk could have been a bluff on Saddam's
part. Only he knows.

George

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