VX nerve gas- What the White House said vs. the evidence.

[politicaholic]

Former UNSCOM head Richard Butler wrote that "a missile warhead of the type Iraq has made and used can hold some 140 liters of VX <...>. A single such warhead would contain enough of the chemical to kill up to 1 million people.""

Condoleezza Rice, "Why We Know Iraq is Lying", New York Times, 23 January 2003: "Iraq has also failed to provide United Nations inspectors with documentation of its claim to have destroyed its VX stockpiles."

Secretary Powell, 5 February 2003: "It took years for Iraq to finally admit that it had produced four tons of the deadly nerve agent, VX.

DOES THAT JUSTIFY WAR WHEN EVERYONE QUOTED HERE SAW THIS DOCUMENT?

The IISS (International Institute of Strategic Studies) strategic dossier of September 2002 records the status of VX produced before the Gulf War: "Any VX produced by Iraq before 1991 is likely to have decomposed over the past decade <...>. Any G-agent or V-agent stocks that Iraq concealed from UNSCOM inspections are likely to have deteriorated by now." (pp. 52 and 53).

Chipping away at the Shite House one lie at a time.

http://www.iiss.org/ (click on the link and see a pretty picture of Rummy making a presentation to the Institute two weeks ago...it's hard to discredit them now huh?)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Imagine if a country such as Iran was on our border... that had engaged in

a bloody war with us for a time... that had used chemical weapons against us.... do ya think that we might have or want to have some chemical deterrents of our own??

Short answer: We would have thousands and thousands of tons of it... and then some.

[shraby]

2. We do have. n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Yes.... Canada and Mexico are extreeeemly scarey.... BOO!!!!

[politicaholic]

3. Mexico shouldn't have made those Tabasco Bombs...

or we could do away with our biological warheads.