I couldn't listen to the media drivel about Cronkite for longer than about 10 minutes, for precisely the reasons you give. Thanks for putting it so clearly where others can read it.

Whyne said his agency has safely destroyed nearly 95 percent of the original nerve gas stockpile, with only two of the six remaining storage sites with VX left to destroy.

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In all, 122,000 pounds of VX nerve agent in 11,685 landmines were destroyed.

I wonder if UNSCOM has verified that every last drop of VX gas in my home state of Oregon and the United States of America has been destroyed.

Maybe the nations of the world should bomb the living piss out of us for having VX that we might use on our own people or others.

Wonder where Sadaam could have possibly gotten that technology in the first place?

Your sources point to exactly 3 "shells" that "may or may not have been this that or the other thing". In any event it was not then nor now ever a legitimate existential threat to the US or its allies sufficient to justify an invasion of a sovereign nation.

Possible bureaucratic oversight, possible theft, possible lies by Sadaam and his Baathist henchmen--who cares? It was still a monstrous lie constructed to pursue ulterior goals.

I've reassessed my initial take on you. You're not just some garden variety grade A moron you're a full fledged cowardly amoral dipshit warmongerer and right wing dupe. And the last thing I am is shocked in the slightest.

I'm still waiting on your proof of "tons of yellow cake" uranium.

Jebbie said "I merely stated that the Reagan administration had given Iraq WMDs and also training in their use.'

Jebbie: What were these WMD? When were they given to Iraq? Who trained Iraq? Document your charges. DOCUMENT. And not by quoting a left-wing loonie blog. I proved chemical weapons were never given to Iraq. I showed that anything Saddam had could be gotten almost anywhere.

==http://www.iraqwatch.org/profiles/chemical.html

Chemicals that serve as ingredients for making chemical weapon agents are known as "precursors." In the early stages of its chemical weapon program Iraq imported the necessary precursors. However, from 1986 to 1990, Iraq constructed and operated numerous plants and facilities (such as Fallujah 1, 2 and 3) for producing precursors on its own. Iraq told UNSCOM that during Iraq's entire chemical weapon program, which lasted from the mid-1970s through at least 1991, it produced and procured 20,150 tons of key precursor chemicals.==

I noticed you stopped talking about Rumsfield's photo. (I won't mention leftie Madeline Albright shaking hands with the past dictator of North Korea. And leftie Clinton giving them a nuclear reactor. A reactor of which they made good use.)

Iraq signed an armistice with the U.N. authorized forces in 1991. In 1991! Iraq AGREED to the no-fly zone! HELLO! Iraq and the U.N. agreed to the no-fly zone and other terms. And Iraq later 'locked on' missile radar on coalition jets, even sent up jets to challenge the U.N. authorized jets. Jebbie, even though you love Saddam and supported his invasion of Kuwait, even you can't say the loser dictates the terms.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium/index.html

updated 6:10 p.m. EDT, Mon July 7, 2008

500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.

rrheard, Jebbie: either you two are incredibly uninformed of the real world, or just incredibly stupid! Here is the proof about the yellow cake. Who could you two NOT KNOW about this??

Whether there was ever to be a War Crimes Tax as I would like in order to rub the snouts of all the little war piggys in the folly of their doings you will still be paying taxes for this for years to come anyway.

Your children will still be paying out of their taxes interest on loans taken out to pay the war profiteers who launched the wars to begin with. They've already been paid and are still continuing to be so thank you very much. Next will come your patriotic duty to pay endless interest out of your labour for their wars.

Now piss off with your asinine long discredited excuses. It's making you sound like an obsessive/compulsive cuckoo clock with Tourettes syndrome or "small town conservative" as we say for short.

"I've only got one word to say to you Benjamin, Scott Fucking Ritter."

When I stated that Saddam had tons of yellow cake uranium, in addition to other weapons of mass destruction (WMD), I was cursed and mocked by the left-wing America haters in here. They said yellow cake was proof of WMD, and that Bush would be proven correct. But, the haters said, there was no yellow cake uranium. I was, and still am, stunned by such blind ignorance. Even the U.N. stated that Saddam had it. Since 1991! The left wing main media refused to admit it.

Well, here you are, loonies. Proof. Let's see those apologies (HA!).

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium/index.html

updated 6:10 p.m. EDT, Mon July 7, 2008

500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/06/world/fg-cake6

July 06, 2008

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program -- a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium -- reached this Canadian port Saturday, completing a secret U.S. operation that included an airlift from Baghdad and a voyage across two oceans.

The removal of about 550 tons of "yellowcake" -- the seed material for high-grade nuclear enrichment -- was a significant step toward closing the books on Hussein's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried that the cache would fall into the hands of insurgents or Shiites hoping to advance Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.

The deal culminated more than a year of diplomatic and military initiatives, kept hushed in fear of ambushes or attacks once the convoys were underway: first carrying 3,500 barrels by road to Baghdad, then on 37 military flights to the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia and finally aboard a U.S.-flagged ship for a 8,500-mile trip to Montreal.

Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well known for decades as the centerpiece of Hussein's nuclear efforts. U.N. inspectors had documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Persian Gulf War.