AP/Reuters Says Blackhawk Hostile Fire Loss and First Chem Munitions Found

"Emmanuel Gustin" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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that another 100 rounds may be in the cache. No doubt some folks will
soon
be screaming that 36, or 136 for that matter, chemical rounds are not
indicitive of Saddam having had chemical munitions despite his
protestations
otherwise...

Always happy to oblige :-) Assuming these are indeed filled with a
blister agent, which still needs to be evaluated properly: Looking at
their condition, this hardly amounts to "having chemical ammunitions."
Surely the crime here is "having toxic waste". No remotely sane gun
crew is going to try to load and fire these rounds!

If this is your WMD standard, then I can tell Belgium must have a
larger WMD arsenal than Iraq: We have tons of leftovers from WW1,
in similar conditions. Farmers regularly unearth them while plowing
their fields. Usually they just drag them to the side and leave them
there until the collection truck comes round...

Some pretty serious avoiding of the issue there.

Saddam was not only required to destroy what he had, but to account for the
destruction.

If those rounds were missing from earlier wars or atrocities, they should
still have been accounted for up until the point at which they were issued
to a unit and then listed as missing as of whatever date and time.

If Saddam can walk away from accounting for 36 buried chem rounds (assuming
they are chem), why not 360 - at what point would you agree that he should
have accounted for the rounds?