General says U.S. still finding Iraqi weapons (WMD - House open session)

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29254424.htm

General says U.S. still finding Iraqi weapons


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Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, did not specify if the newly found weapons were also chemical munitions. But he said he expected more.

"I do not believe we have found all the weapons," he told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, offering few details in an open session that preceded a classified briefing to lawmakers.

Responding to questions from lawmakers anxious to make political points ahead of the November congressional elections, U.S. defense officials said the 500 chemical weapons discovered in Iraq were "weapons of mass destruction." However their degraded state may make them more dangerous to those who find them than anyone else.

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When asked by a Democrat to confirm the weapons pose a risk to troops in Iraq, not Americans at home, Maples said, "Yes."

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Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania suggested the munitions were in fact the weapons of mass destruction that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein lied about, leading the United States to war.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Not this crap again. What did he find? A can of Drano under Saddam's sink?

Pathetic, just pathetic.

[sabra]

2. key sentence:

However their degraded state may make them more dangerous to those who find them than anyone else.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Yeah, like a kid's diaper that was forgotten behind the crib.

[mike_c]

3. as they repeat the lies, they begin to actually believe them....

This would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic, and if they weren't murdering people over it.

[Supersedeas]

4. Pubbies are reaching, stretching disparately for reprieve from political

quicksand

[WePurrsevere]

5. Clean out filthy cat litter boxes w/ bleach & I'll show you WMD you git.

Ammonia + Bleach = WMD and that's just super basic science that some of us probably ran across by accident.

From what I'm hearing it sounds like so far what they've supposedly found isn't any more harmful then what someone with HS Chemistry and shopping in Lowes and/or Home Depot could whip up... possibly the stuff in Iraq is even less so.

Much of what I'm hearing sounds a lot like they're bringing up the same old news that was reported a few years ago about this stuff. It didn't fly then with most and it sounds like it won't fly any better this run through.

[Rose Siding]

6. Dated from before '91...unusable..."vintage"-

They are just obfuscating. Dated last week-

New report offers no evidence that Iraq stockpiled WMD
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A new, partially declassified intelligence report provides no new evidence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion, as President Bush alleged in making the case for war, U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday.


The report, made public in the midst of a partisan debate in Congress, says that about 500 munitions containing degraded chemical weapons, including mustard gas and sarin nerve agent, have been found in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.


But the intelligence officials said the munitions dated from before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and were for the most part badly deteriorated. "They are not in a condition where they could be used as designed," one intelligence official said.


"There is not new news from the coalition point of view," one official said, noting that chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer predicted in a March 2005 report that such vintage weapons would continue to be found.


The officials from three agencies briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitive intelligence data involved.


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14879521.htm

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. These assholes are really reaching.

It's both said and funny at the same time.

;( :dilemma: :rofl:

[aden_nak]

8. It's hard to find ALL the weapons when you haven't found ANY weapons.

[Endangered Specie]

9. General dude: the ones that WE gave Iraq don't count

[LynnTheDem]

11. rotflmao!!! NO "wmd" in Iraq. Fact.

Even the MFing moran bush has admitted it. But hey, the rightwingnuts are desperate and their bots are too ignorant to know they're being fooled. Again.

"mustard gas" a "wmd"... :rofl:

[billyoc]

12. *I'll* say they are,

Just *look* at that thing!