Comments on: Sarin Gas Found in Fallujah?

By: LJD

LJD — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:21:13 +0000

The arguments that chemical weapons caches are not big enough, dangerous enough, or in the hands of "amatuers" clearly displays the 9/10 mentality of much of our country. I'm with McGehee on this one.

If you have ever seen what a human being goes through while dying from nerve gas exposure, you may change your minds.

Dodging the facts and raising hypotheticals is a slippery slope. (Those weapons COULD HAVE come from anywhere!- Right!) You can produce a "rational" answer for nearly anything, but does nothing to get to the root of the problem.

There are banned weapons in Iraq. No qualifier was issued with the resolutions as to the amount that constitiuted a violation. One drop is a violation. Of course, we already know that Saddam violated every one on the books. For some reason no one on the left seems to care.

By: TM Lutas

TM Lutas — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:23:40 +0000

The Iraqis held their lines against numerically superior Iranian troops for years by, among other things, the judicious use of chemical weapons barrages in defending fixed positions against assault. Would it be too much to ask for people to actually wait for enough information to comment intelligently?

Glenn Reynolds updated the story and it's currently a dud, no sarin, just sarin testing kits. Then again, it might get updated again in another few hours.

By: Herb Ely

Herb Ely — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:08:01 +0000

I have a major opinion piece coming out in the December issue of Government Executive. Small stockpiles in the hands of untrained troops do not constitute a military threat. Small stockpiles in the hands of a few trained terrorists would constitute a serous threat - only because their use would terrorize. The Japanese cult was a failure - only ten people died. but that was pre-9/11.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:29:48 +0000

Heh. We could have unearthed a fleet of ICBMs with nuclear warheads all targeted on the U.S., with instruction manuals in Arabic and MADE IN BAGHDAD stamped in Arabic on every component, and the naysayers would be out in force trying to spin it all away.

By: austin mls

austin mls — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:17:03 +0000

Don't confuse the MSM with facts.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:14:44 +0000

thunderbird, the japanese doomsday cult consisted of a bunch of mensa types. They manufactured the sarin themselves. Their failure is a good example of why no serious military uses chemical weapons. They are practically worthless when compared to traditional explosives.

Yawn

By: The Skeptician

The Skeptician — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:52:27 +0000

NPR: Sarin Possibly Found in Fallujah

By: clark

clark — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:23:47 +0000

Even if it is Sarin, Iraq has been a terrorist bazaar since Bush & Rumsfeld took it over. The stuff could have come from Syria, Iran or France, or a million different places.

By: Ipse Dixit

Ipse Dixit — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:51:44 +0000

You Didn't Hear It Here First
But you may not hear it much of anywhere else after: Sarin Gas Found In Fallujah. I'm sure the media...

By: vdibart

vdibart — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:09:33 +0000

If memory serves me correctly, the mustard gas found was thought to be a random misplaced shell left over from the early 90s. Even the military said that it was unmarked and could have very easily slipped past whatever screening took place when they moved/destroyed the rest of the stock. So in the sense that mustard gas ever existed, this is true. But in the sense that this proved that stockpiles still exist, it's inconclusive at best, leaning towards meaningless.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:05:58 +0000

Sarin nerve gas was once 'discovered' in the Tokyo subways when a group of terrorist used it in a bunch of homemade bombs in an attempt to kill thousands. It was discovered that the sarin nerve gas was a pretty big dud killing far fewer people than large explosives would have.

Yawn is right.

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:58:02 +0000

Sarin Gas Found in Fallujah
NPR reported yesterday afternoon that US troops had found what they believed to be Sarin gas in Fallujah. I would caution that the report had not verified whether or not the substance was Sarin, only that troops suspected that it...

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:42:23 +0000

Yawn!

Yet more nonsense.