Comments on: Over And Under

By: Gaius

Gaius — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:34:58 +0000

The US had ample, completely valid reasons for going to war. WMDs were never the justification. The left has been trying to reframe it that way for quite some time.

Violation of a ceasefire is, and always has been, legitimate reason to resume hostilities. If launching missiles at allied aircraft wasn’t already sufficient justification, the failure to destroy these chemical munitions, the failure to comply with the ceasefire requirements of the UN resolution simply make the justification for war airtight.

Clear enough?

By: Y-Love

Y-Love — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:05:35 +0000

While I am all for jumping down the throats of neocon straw graspers, as was stated earlier, there are facts here. However, as was stated on FOX News, the US knew that there were chemical weapons in Iraq prior to the Gulf War and during (as did everyone, they used them). And we know about massacres within Iraq using them. Now we find a stash of weapons from before the Gulf War.

These would have been used in 1990. What new information — or credibility — does this give us now? What, because we found an underground dumpster?

By: Black Jack

Black Jack — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:24:51 +0000

Ken, tell that to the 100′s of dead Kurds and 1000′s of dead Iranians who have some first hand experience with Saddam’s chemical weapons. Or, you could check with Chemical Ali, he can give you a perspective from the other side.

The munitions in question are certainly “weapons,” they can and have killed large “masses” of people, and that pretty clearly makes them rather indisputably “destructive.”

So, is there some part of WMD don’t you understand? Or, can’t you handle the truth?

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:59:40 +0000

The are chemical munitions, they are lumped into the shorthand term WMD, they are still lethal – read the article.

By: Ken Hoop

Ken Hoop — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:48:00 +0000

again, the necons grasping at straws: these are nor WMDs even were they found in mint condition

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » The Magic List Of WMDs In Iraq — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:11:30 +0000

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By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:35:24 +0000

Yeah, I know. I’d be willing to bet the ones saying “degraded” wouldn’t be willing to actually touch one of the things.

By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:33:33 +0000

This whole “they are degraded, so they didn’t pose a threat” meme drives me crazy. Here and there you hear about some farmer in FroggieLand (or somewhere else on the Continent) finding a WWI mustard shell in his fields, and authorities point to the shell’s toxicity as the reason his crops, cattle, or the farmer himself are being poisoned because of that “degraded” antique.