Monday, April 7, 2003 |
09:29 - Color me surprised
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PUDKPSFKWP3HGCRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews
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I'm sure this will come as a complete letdown to some, and to others it won't be anywhere near enough.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.
NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."
Yawn... blah blah. Whatever. They weren't fired, so how can they be a "smoking gun"? And 20 missiles? C'mon, all he could wipe out with that is Israel! We shouldn't concern ourselves with these decisions of a legitimately elected government of a sovereign nation. It's Bush who's the real terrorist! We have WMDs toooo! We've probably been... uh... secretly using them on Iraqi babies for three weeks now! In fact, that Presidential Palace that they bombed-- that was really a hidden cache of innocent Iraqi babies! A few measly sarin missiles is no excuse for exterminating the Iraqi people!
In seriousness, let's wait for CENTCOM confirmation, though. These kinds of things have turned out to be false alarms before.
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