Published on Monday, April 7, 2003 by Agence France Presse
"Smoking Gun" WMD Site in Iraq Turns Out to Contain Pesticide

NEAR NAJAF, Iraq - A facility near Baghdad that a US officer had said might finally be "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi chemical weapons production turned out to contain pesticide, not sarin gas as feared.

A military intelligence officer for the US 101st Airborne Division's aviation brigade, Captain Adam Mastrianni, told AFP that comprehensive tests determined the presence of the pesticide compounds.

The article can be found at: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-09.htm

What's the point of this post?

Originally posted by stephenM
What's the point of this post? Hello?? The war-mongers were assuming this was the smoking gun. That Iraq had WMDs so the war was justified. Wrong AGAIN. I'll include here a commentary from Michael Colby's Daily Curio at Wild Matters (http://www.wildmatters.org):

How delicious was the news that those supposed “chemical weapons containers” turned out to be agricultural pesticides? Yes, those are nerve agents as well – and we use millions of pounds of them every year on our farm fields and food crops. They were probably produced by a U.S.-base multinational like the Monsanto Corporation.

The soldiers and members of the media who came into contact with these suspicious containers reported all kinds of symptoms like itchy skin, redness, difficulty breathing, and headaches. Indeed, that’s what farm workers have been complaining about for decades.

Does this mean we can accuse Monsanto and the other purveyors of agri-chemicals of terrorism? Will Bush be attacking its St. Louis headquarters anytime soon? If so, don’t forget to bring your masks and chem suits …

Originally posted by sisterscape
Hello?? The war-mongers were assuming this was the smoking gun. That Iraq had WMDs so the war was justified. Wrong AGAIN. I'll include here a commentary from Michael Colby's Daily Curio at Wild Matters (http://www.wildmatters.org):
Warmongers? I guess you are in the Neville Chamberlain club? Peace at any cost!

Pleeeeeze.

We all remember Chamberlin saying Peace with honor in WW2 and look what happened.

Originally posted by sisterscape
Published on Monday, April 7, 2003 by Agence France Presse
"Smoking Gun" WMD Site in Iraq Turns Out to Contain Pesticide

NEAR NAJAF, Iraq - A facility near Baghdad that a US officer had said might finally be "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi chemical weapons production turned out to contain pesticide, not sarin gas as feared.

A military intelligence officer for the US 101st Airborne Division's aviation brigade, Captain Adam Mastrianni, told AFP that comprehensive tests determined the presence of the pesticide compounds.

The article can be found at: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-09.htm

Feel better now? :rolleyes: Most countries, even those not involved in the war, do NOT doubt that Iraq still has banned weapons in their country, the only controversy was how to deal with it.

Incorrect, They do have Chemical Weapons as if they didn't they wouldn't have gas mask, chemical suits etc. Unless you go to IRAQ and can't find any yourself then I recommend you keep your sorry ass mouth shut :)

Originally posted by FastHost
Incorrect, They do have Chemical Weapons as if they didn't they wouldn't have gas mask, chemical suits etc. Unless you go to IRAQ and can't find any yourself then I recommend you keep your sorry ass mouth shut :)

I think the U.S. troop also have gas mask, chemical suits etc...
Does that mean U.S. ready to use Chemical Weapons?

We're protecting ourself from them bastards :).

Incorrect, They do have Chemical Weapons as if they didn't they wouldn't have gas mask, chemical suits etc. Unless you go to IRAQ and can't find any yourself then I recommend you keep your sorry ass mouth shut
Chemical weaponry aside, why are creeps like "Timmy The Scammer" allowed to post here accusing people of having a sorry ass mouth?

US has more WMD than any other country in the world. The administration is now asking for funding for three new bioweapons lab. I find this double standard appalling.

You'll get over it.

Originally posted by cp1967
You'll get over it. I don't think so. Not unless the situation is corrected. I'll do everything and anything (legally and non-violently) I can to help make that happen.

no the reason we have mask is to protect ourselfs from them.. did that take a rocket scientist to get?

Originally posted by sisterscape
I don't think so. Not unless the situation is corrected. I'll do everything and anything (legally and non-violently) I can to help make that happen.
Better get started. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by FTPguy
Better get started. :rolleyes: Waaay ahead of you! ;) I will not be a silent collaborator.

Okie dokie. :D

I believe that the report for those drums of chemicals came up with both positive and negative field tests. Currently samples of the chemicals are on their way to 2 different biochemical laboratories for proper analysis. Field testing equipment does create false positives as it should. Rather safe then sorry is a smart step.

Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035780647508&call_pageid=1045739058633&col=1045739057805)

Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55364-2003Apr8.html)

As you can see neither the US or the British claimed these findings from the initial field tests were conclusive, in fact Secretary of Defense Mr. Rumsfield said and I quote" Many times first reports are wrong".

I don't think so. Not unless the situation is corrected. I'll do everything and anything (legally and non-violently) I can to help make that happen. Out of curiousity, I wonder how much help you were to the 450,000 children that died needlessly in Iraq over the past 12 years? I would think such an injustice would overshadow anything else going on in the world. In fact, with the exception of the genocide in Somalia there were more premature deaths in Iraq then anywhere else in the world.

Why didn't we see the anti-war protestors out protesting all these deaths in Iraq?

Originally posted by Watcher_TVI

Why didn't we see the anti-war protestors out protesting all these deaths in Iraq?

Because it wasn't Americans causing the deaths. :rolleyes: