tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post115108219816929974..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: What Threat?George Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1151183220439407792006-06-24T17:07:00.000-04:002006-06-24T17:07:00.000-04:00Many of these discovered munitions are being found...Many of these discovered munitions are being found rigged as IEDs even now.<BR/><BR/>They are forcing our engineers to hazard disarming devices that would normally be blown in place.<BR/><BR/>That's why we have a steady stream of maimed troops.<BR/><BR/>Other rounds have been purchased over the counter: $5,000 per pop was the initial US Army offer.<BR/><BR/>With this approach, the unlawful combatants can finance their operations by turning in a portion of their stash. The remainder is rigged to IEDs such as to increase the price of the buy-in.<BR/><BR/>These rounds are absolutely NOT being found alone in the sand. Rather they are inventoried right along with conventional munitions.<BR/><BR/>Uniquely, Saddam had his chemical shells made without any obvious differentiation from conventional rounds. So, anyone crudely extracting the values is at overwhelming hazard of setting off a high explosive round by mistake. That explains their crude utilization.blerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673566463965274368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1151125092985870802006-06-24T00:58:00.000-04:002006-06-24T00:58:00.000-04:00ReflectionEpheral,The main point about the WMD tha...ReflectionEpheral,<BR/><BR/><I>The main point about the WMD that were just announced is that they do _not_ establish that Saddam was reconstituting his WMD program when we invaded. That was the claim we made at the time of the war.</I><BR/><BR/>I am reading the <A HREF="http://www.foia.cia.gov/duelfer/Iraqs_WMD_Vol3.pdf" REL="nofollow">Duelfer Report</A> as a result of your helpful links in the earlier post...<BR/><BR/>The actual WMD problems we were attempting to resolve were:<BR/>1. To ensure existing WMD was destroyed.<BR/>2. To ensure that the often reconstituted WMD programs ended.<BR/>3. To destroy the WMD militarization capability of Iraq.<BR/><BR/>We were not a militarized UNMOVIC.<BR/><BR/>We intended to destroy WMD, WMD programs, and the inevitable reconstitution of WMD militarization upon the lifting of the 1991 UN sanctions. Those sanctions were under tremendous pressure in 2002/3 - even after 9/11. That oil wealth would go straight to WMD - as it had with 'Oil For Food', as it had many times previously.<BR/><BR/>The <A HREF="http://www.foia.cia.gov/duelfer/Iraqs_WMD_Vol3.pdf" REL="nofollow">Duelfer Report</A> is a scary document.Boghiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07082497352696881585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1151108537794929962006-06-23T20:22:00.000-04:002006-06-23T20:22:00.000-04:00There has been enough circumstantial evidence for ...There has been enough circumstantial evidence for me to say that most of Iraq's WMD is in Syria.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure some was buried in Iraq, but in a country that is almost the size of Texas, they will still be digging it up, when we are all dead and gone.<BR/><BR/>But the libs are right in one way, so far, there has not been enough found to concern ourselves with. <BR/><BR/>But they whisper the rest of the sentence...<BR/><BR/><I>As long as we are the ones who find it.</I><BR/><BR/>Papa RayPapa Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11454201360366303944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1151106449882725322006-06-23T19:47:00.000-04:002006-06-23T19:47:00.000-04:00Excellent explanation! I've linked to you here: ...Excellent explanation! I've linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2006/06/re-what-threat.htmlConsul-At-Armshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391037582103556978noreply@blogger.com