andyt andyt:
what I don't understand is why ISIS is so much smarter than the US? All the time occupying Iraq, and they couldn't find these weapons, ISIS is at it a few months, and bada bing, there they are. Strange that.
What's so strange about it? Did you
read the article?
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...where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a letter circulated Tuesday at the United Nations.
Da shit is useless. It has a finite shelf-life. But we can't blame the media for wanting to hype it up with their usual misleading headlines. Oh wait, yes we can.
As for the facility itself, Blix admitted afterwards that the dual-purpose facilities could make the switch to weapons production in short order. However they weren't permitted to be destroyed because their other purposes included making livestock feed, baby formula and the like.
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The U.S. government played down the threat from the takeover, saying there are no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to use the material for military purposes.
For those who don't have short or selective memories, the US found other chem-weps that were in the same condition a decade ago. At this point they are probably more dangerous to ISIS than anyone else, assuming there's any real danger left in them.