"It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen

[IChing]

sink" said David Kay, who headed the U.S. weapons-hunting team in Iraq from 2003 until early 2004.

New intel report reignites Iraq arms fight
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But intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitive nature, said the weapons were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and there is no evidence to date of chemical munitions manufactured since then. They said an assessment of the weapons concluded they are so degraded that they couldn't now be used as designed.

They probably would have been intended for chemical attacks during the Iran-Iraq War, said David Kay, who headed the U.S. weapons-hunting team in Iraq from 2003 until early 2004.

He said experts on Iraq's chemical weapons are in "almost 100 percent agreement" that sarin nerve agent produced from the 1980s would no longer be dangerous.

"It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point," Kay said.

And any of Iraq's 1980s-era mustard would produce burns, but it is unlikely to be lethal, Kay said

Asked about the potential danger to U.S. troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said: "They are weapons of mass destruction. They are harmful to human beings. And they have been found.".>>>>snip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060623/ap_on_go_co/iraq_s_weapons&printer=1;_ylt=AqkFqnrmQjz.bMw3kBgsPRKMwfIE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-


Now, who are you going believe.

[pooja]

1. Rumsfeld doesn't know his ass from his brain

[5X]

6. Yes he does, he works standing up to keep from choking off the latter. n/t

[sweetheart]

2. We need a war on household cleansers

People gotta stop drinking bleach!! its bad for you!! All people who own bleach
need to stop selling it or go to prison. If you own it, we *KNOW* you're selling it.
We need a war on draino, and welding, and a war on circular saws.

All the stupid draino users and stupid welders and stupid users of circular saws who
just won't give up their unhealthy habits, its against the LAW you know, are gonna
go to prison!! All the keepers of house hold cleansers are really terrorists, and a
pinch of dust from your desktop is a worse bioweapon than brought the murder of 100,000
iraqi civilians. If irony were any more cynical, i don't know if i'd laugh or cry.

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3. The thing is that this debunks the Right wing points from a weapon expert

David Kaye ,who lead the search for weapons in Iraq
proving that the govt now needs to search every americans'
cabinet under their sink for terrorist weapons. (just using bushite logic with that one)

[sweetheart]

5. we all know they're lying

Are they talking? Listening to them is a foredefeated effort in fantasy fiction and
i'm just not disposed to the Genre. ;-)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. REAL WMD, RELEASED ON INDIANS, shrub denies their

right to recompense. See the hypocrisy, the the hypocrisy coming out of American corporatists.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/9563/Chemical_Imbalance_in_Bhopal

Residents protest the involvement of Dow Chemical and the U.S. government in corporation enlisted to 'clean up' contaminated ground

The twenty one year battle continues to bring justice for the survivors of the catastrophic chemical spill which afflicted the Indian city of Bhopal in 1984, exposing half a million to highly toxic gasses. The current death toll is 20,000, with 120,000 still suffering the effects. The company responsible was Union Carbide – now part of Dow Chemicals – and they have been trying to wash their hands of the problem ever since.

Yet while Dow are ducking and diving from a safe distance in the US, those in Bhopal still live with the aftermath of the accident, which was never cleaned up, in their backyard. The site of the abandoned pesticides factory still oozes a cocktail of carcinogenic and mutagenic toxins, which leach from the 5,000 tonnes of waste chemicals chucked into pits.

Naturally Dow thinks somebody else, anybody else, should pay the $48 billion needed for the clean up. When nobody warmed to the idea that gas survivors’ meagre compensation should be used for this purpose they suggested that maybe the Indian taxpayer should cough up instead. When that didn’t work, along came Cherokee Investment Partners.