Families of soldiers condemn Bush's war

In message , Leslie Swartz
writes
Vince:

- What about the 30 or so 55 gal drums of Lewisite?

Which were found when and where?

- What about the mobile chem labs?

You mean the canvas-sided trailers that might be mobile WME factories...
or might be mobile hydrogen generators?

- What about the Rycin?

Ricin. Some evidence of ricin manufacture turned up in a UK house (it's
not that hard to do) but I don't recall any significant Iraqi program
being discovered.

- What about the Botulinum?

How much, how weaponised?

- What about the anthrax cultures?

Is this the culture that a scientist was told to hide in his
refrigerator in 1991?

- What about the residuals at various dumping sites?

What about them? Any recent activity?

How much "evidence of WMD;" or, more to the point, "evidence of WMD
programs" is enough for you?

Enough to suggest that there was a significant threat of weaponised,
deployable agents.

We know he used to have a WME program; ask an Iranian veteran, ask a
Kurd. We know a lot of it was captured or destroyed post-1991 and more
destroyed in 1998. What we don't know with certainty is (a) how much he
actually had, (b) how much was lost or destroyed, (c) how much the
Iraqis disposed of themselves.


In six months of occupation, with unlimited access, and many key
decisionmakers and scientists in custody, we haven't found any
deployable weapons, nor any means to produce them in a useful timescale.



--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk

We know he used to have a WME program; ask an Iranian veteran, ask a
Kurd. We know a lot of it was captured or destroyed post-1991 and more
destroyed in 1998. What we don't know with certainty is (a) how much he
actually had, (b) how much was lost or destroyed, (c) how much the
Iraqis disposed of themselves.


....".. what we don't know.." (above) This is exactly why we had to go in;
we didn't know, he wasn't telling (in fact he was being evasive as hell),
and contrary to your statement, Blix did NOT say Iraq did not have any, he
actually wrote the finding that they were continuing to be evasive in direct
violation of the UN (that is United Nations).

In message fs_rb.768$6p6.751@okepread03, wrann writes
We know he used to have a WME program; ask an Iranian veteran, ask a
Kurd. We know a lot of it was captured or destroyed post-1991 and more
destroyed in 1998. What we don't know with certainty is (a) how much he
actually had, (b) how much was lost or destroyed, (c) how much the
Iraqis disposed of themselves.


...".. what we don't know.." (above) This is exactly why we had to go in;
we didn't know, he wasn't telling (in fact he was being evasive as hell),
and contrary to your statement, Blix did NOT say Iraq did not have any,

Never claimed he said any such thing. What Blix _did_ say was that there
were large uncertainties, lots of evasion... and no actual evidence.

he
actually wrote the finding that they were continuing to be evasive in direct
violation of the UN (that is United Nations).

The UN is irrelevant, didn't you get the memo?




--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk

Iraq 'had no weapons of mass destruction'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/wo...00/3120374.stm
"Iraq destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, according
to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector"

Blix suspects there are no weapons of mass destruction
Saturday May 24, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...962535,00.html

"The chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said yesterday that he suspected
that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, He added that "in this
respect" the war might not have been justified."

Blix: No Need For Iraq War
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in574110.shtml
Hans Blix said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the U.S.-led
coalition could have avoided going to war with Iraq, but didn't want to.


"You know, in the Middle Ages, when people were convinced there were
witches, they certainly found them." - Hans Blix

"You know, in the Middle East, where people were convinced there were WMDs,
they never found them."
- Oo


"wrann" wrote in message
news:fs_rb.768$6p6.751@okepread03...
...".. what we don't know.." (above) This is exactly why we had to go in;
we didn't know, he wasn't telling (in fact he was being evasive as hell)

Oh so we should invade countrys whose may or may not have WMD but if we
dont know - invade...

Israel the only country in the "middle east" with weapons of mass
destruction - ask them about them see how evasive they are. Also look at how
many UN resolutions they have broken or ignored.

and contrary to your statement, Blix did NOT say Iraq did not have any, he
actually wrote the finding that they were continuing to be evasive in
direct
violation of the UN (that is United Nations).