Re: What has America lost?

Jeffraham Prestonian wrote:
> "Don Swayser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
>
> > "Provable and verifiable"? Perhaps you'd care to explain what those
> > terms mean. It is "provable and verifiable that Hussein did maintain a
> > larger and better armed army and air force than ALL Persian Gulf States
> > combined. The wrekage left behind by the allied forces prove it.
>
>
> You know what they say about missed
> opportunities. This was hardly mentioned until it
> became pretty obvious that the overwrought,
> overhyped, oft-repeated (and now oft-denied!)
> Iraqi WMD claims were seriously, seriously
> exaggerated. Not everyone has taken their eye
> off the shell with the pea underneath it. How long
> ago was it that Colin Powell claimed that Saddam
> was no credible threat to even his geographic
> neighbors?  What changed between then & March,
> 2003?
>
> Btw, what did Saddam use to blackmail Mssrs.
> Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in order
> to obtain his chem & bio weapons components in
> the 1980s?
Let me give you a little lesson on nerve agent weapons. They are made 
from a combination of chemicals known in the business as precursors. 
These are relatively easy to obtain since they also have other uses. The 
real secret is the "recipe". It is quite obvious to any knowledgable 
observer that Hussein had both the chemicals (all required components 
were found) and the knowledge to make these agents. Chemical agents 
deteriorate over time. Nerve agents become unstable and loose some of 
their effectiveness. In WW I both sides mixed their chemical weapons 
shortly before their use. Hussein was developing MRBM's and IRBM's but 
didn't yet have them in production. Why mix the chemicals 2-3 years 
before the delivery system was built?

There was no chemical or biological weapons supplied by any member of 
any administration at any time. America never developed biological 
weapons and its stock of chemical weapons is closely monitored by OSIA. 
Any change in the quantity of stocked weapons could not go unnoticed. 
Now, I'll provide a link about what US materials cam from the US, and 
who and what was delivered so next time you just may have an inkling of 
the facts which you so obviously lack now.

http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/r_1_2.html#exports
Riegle Report - Chapter One, Part Two





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