Warheads found in Iraq containing chemical weapons.
The warheads all contained cyclosarin, multinational force commander Polish Gen. Mieczyslaw Bieniek said."Laboratory tests showed the presence in them of cyclosarin, a very toxic gas, five times stronger than sarin and five times more durable," Bieniek told Poland's TVN24 at the force's Camp Babylon headquarters.
The administration is not hyping this find as a vindication of their prewar intelligence...yet. But this case has to get a bigger profile over the next week or so. Since the press and the President's opponents have built their case for "Bush lied" around the erstwhile failure to locate actual WMD, this story can't just be ignored, can it? Minimized, marginalized, "yes, butted" maybe. But they can't pretend it didn't happen. (via Power Line)
Posted by dan at July 3, 2004 08:46 PMAhem...
Not to question the undoubted expertise of a Polish military commander on matters of chemical warfare.....
Turns out only 2 of the reported 17 shells had sarin in them, and all were Iraq-Iran war vintage and aren't capable of being fired. Maybe the administration didn't hype it up because they knew it was nothing from the get-go.
The notorious liberal media didn't have to "minimalize and marginalize" this story. It was minimal and marginal to begin with.
It took about 2 or 3 days for our inspectors to determine that their chemical weapons testing is a joke. Isn't that about the same time it took for their army to roll over in 1938?
Good cooks, the Polish.
Posted by: Al at July 6, 2004 09:22 PMOh, so they were chemical warheads with sarin that had been around in Iraq for a long time. In other words..."nothing".
Posted by: Dan at July 7, 2004 02:29 AMCertainly nothing to justify a few thousand corpses.
Posted by: Al at July 7, 2004 05:52 AM