From: "Phil Payne" 

> > 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.

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