WMD's found at the UN? . . . . .

[Bullwinkle925]

methinks I smell a rat. This happening just a few days before the *Surge Report* and anniversary of September THE 11th.

Yeah - right! *holes - every one of 'em.

[etherealtruth]

1. they found old viles of ...

... phosgene (mustard gas).

Carelessness (OK, plain irresponsible) ... yes.

Anything more nefarious ... doubtful, it's just getting minimal air time ... ?

[Bullwinkle925]

2. the timing always 'gets' me.

just enough air-time for the sheeple to become jittery again.

sheesh

[etherealtruth]

4. The reports I heard really focused on ...

... the irresponsibility at the UN ... the report didn't even refer to it as "mustard gas"

I guess the news outlets I have paid attention to today just didn't play this up at all.

[Bullwinkle925]

5. I've only heard snippets . . .

but for those loyal Bushies - it's totally enough to get them scurrying back into their caves.

Crikey.

[Posteritatis]

6. Phosgene's neither mustard gas nor intrinsically military

It's not something you want to stir in with your morning coffee no matter what, but it's also a relatively mundane industrial/laboratory chemical. Seven-digit tonnages of it are made every year.

I still wanna smack that dipshit reporter who said it was nerve gas, though.

[etherealtruth]

7. Quite correct, my bad ...

My only real point is that the reports I have heard (brief) really didn't play this as a "terra, terra, terra" story.

[Posteritatis]

8. I saw one say "OMG NERVE GAS!" but not much else

BBC's saying "dangerous chemicals including phosgene," and generally said it's a non-issue. Turns out the phosgene actually was from Iraq, but has been sitting in the office for ten years or something.

It's an interesting story, but not a stopthepressian one.

[Bucky]

3. The reason the UN announced they had WMDs was to make sure Bush wouldn't invade them.

Damn sneaky foreigners.

[Selatius]

9. Wouldn't that cause the opposite reaction from Bush? (i.e. Bush bombs the beejesus out of the UN)