The three different kinds of weapons universally acknowledged to be Weapons of Mass Destruction are Biological weapons (germs, viruses etc.), chemical weapons (poison gas deliberately released in the atmosphere, liquids put in food or water supplies, etc.), and nuclear weapons.

One of them has now been used deliberately as an offensive weapon In Iraq, in three different locations today. Chlorine gas, which was specifically outlawed after its use in World War I, has now seen a rebirth. It has also been used several other times by terrorists in Iraq in the last month or two.

The mainstream media, which was strident in its denunciations of the Bush administration for their insistence that Iraqi WMDs could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used against our toops and allies, have suddenly become extremely quiet, not mentioning the term "weapon of mass destruction" in any of their stories that I have seen about these attacks.

One wonders what excuse they will use now.

1.) "These gas attacks don't count as WMDs because the tanks they were in weren't specifically designed to be weapons."

2.) "They don't count because there's no proof Saddam had these particular tanks of chlorine before the invasion."

3.) "They don't count because there's no proof Saddam had these particular tanks of chlorine after the invasion."

4.) "Gee, I guess we were wrong about the danger of WMDs in Iraq. We take back all the things we said about Bush, and acknowledge he was right after all."

5.) "Chlorine has peaceful uses as well as wartime uses, so these don't count as WMDs."

...plus a host of even screwier ones. Which of the above excuses would you guess WON'T be used by the MSM and other leftists?

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Insurgent Chlorine Attacks Injure 350 Iraqi Sunnis

Saturday, March 17, 2007

BAGHDAD — Three suicide bombers driving trucks rigged with tanks of toxic chlorine gas struck targets in heavily Sunni Anbar province Friday, including the office of a Sunni tribal leader opposed to Al Qaeda.

The attacks killed at least two people and sickened 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops, the U.S. military said Saturday.

There is a mounting power struggle between insurgents and the growing number of Sunnis who oppose them in Anbar, the center of the Sunni insurgency, which stretches from Baghdad to the borders with Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

The Anbar assaults came three days after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, traveled there to reach out to Sunni clan chiefs in a bid to undermine tribal support for the insurgency.

The violence started about 4:11 p.m. Friday when a driver detonated explosives in a pickup truck carrying chlorine at a checkpoint northeast of the provincial capital of Ramadi, wounding one U.S. service member and one Iraqi civilian, the military said in a statement.

Two hours later a dump truck exploded in Amiriyah, south of Fallujah, killing two policemen and leaving as many as 100 residents with symptoms of chlorine exposure, ranging from minor skin and lung irritations to vomiting, the military said.

Iraqi authorities said at least six people were killed and dozens wounded when the truck blew up in a line of cars waiting at a checkpoint. The U.S. did not confirm the Iraqi report.

Ahmed Kuhdier, a 32-year-old taxi driver, said the blast sent up a plume of white smoke that turned black and blue.

"Minutes later, we started to smell nasty smells. I saw people coming form the explosion site and they were coughing and having trouble breathing," he said.

Another suicide bomber detonated a dump truck containing a 200-gallon chlorine tank rigged with explosives at 7:13 p.m. three miles south of Fallujah in the Albu Issa tribal region, the military said.

U.S. forces found about 250 local civilians, including seven children, suffering from symptoms related to chlorine exposure, according to the statement. Police said the bomb was targeting the reception center of a tribal sheik who has denounced Al Qaeda.

Four other bombings have released chlorine gas since Jan. 28, when a homicide bomber driving a dump truck filled with explosives and a chlorine tank struck a quick-reaction force and Iraqi police in Ramadi, killing 16 people.

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Well shit, you better arrest every family that owns a pool in the United States and invade any nation that has such families! Clearly, they are in violation of WMDs laws!

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oswer/ceppoweb.nsf/vwResourcesByFilename/chlor.pdf/$File/chlor.pdf

If I recall, mixing some types of pool chemicals may result in a toxic chlorine cloud.

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A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image.

Someone should tell them that bad press can be prevented by not abusing prisoners in the first place. Censorship is only needed to preserve the good reputation of those who have tortured and/or murdered already.

Does your watch glow in the dark? Or the sights on your pistol? They may have tritium in them. But since a peaceful use of a material disqualifies it from WMD status, I guess we need to take 5-megaton nuclear fusion bombs off the list.

We have one attempted use of Excuse #5 so far. Any other whackos want to try them?

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Uh, the IWR did not say the invasion was going to occur just because Hussein used chemical weapons, it was was supposedly because he had them. That's why it was important to FIND them.

Eliminate chemical weapons? Well, if you consider chlorine weapons to be chemical weapons, then like I said, you need to invade practically every country.

Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq

If you consider chlorine gas, which can be made at home (and sometimes is accidentally), to be a chemical weapon, then like I said, you need to invade practically every known country.

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A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image.

Someone should tell them that bad press can be prevented by not abusing prisoners in the first place. Censorship is only needed to preserve the good reputation of those who have tortured and/or murdered already.

Of course! Saddam was hiding his WMD's in his swimming pool. I guess that explains why an occuping force of hundreds of thousands of troops dedicated to finding the WMD's overlooked them all this time. They should have just looked in the swimming pool, Im sending a complaint letter to GW about this gross incompetence.

All I'm saying is that if the chemical weapons possession charge in the IWR is legitimate because of these chlorine gas attacks, then practically any nation can be invaded because of that. It clearly stated that the reason for invasion, or at least one of them, is POSSESSION of chemical weapons. If this scenario is what the IWR referred to, then the POSSESSION of POOL CHEMICALS warrants INVASION, according to Acorn's interpretation of the IWR.

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A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image.

Someone should tell them that bad press can be prevented by not abusing prisoners in the first place. Censorship is only needed to preserve the good reputation of those who have tortured and/or murdered already.

The fact that the insurgents are making and using these terrible weapons is sickening. But linking this behaviour to the missing/non-existent/degraded/destroyed/mislaid/"I forgot where I put them"/"oh we know they're buried in Syria" WMD allegedly possessed by the Saddam regime is, well, just a little bit silly.

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When is the last time you saw a "swimming pool" hitch a ride on a truck and spontaneously explode by it's own volition and produce hundreds of casualties??

Methinks there was some type of weaponization of the chemicals.

Start of "screwy reasons" list...

• Suggest that innocent benevolent truckers hauling swimming pools just keep mysteriously exploding
• It's not a chemical weapon because it can be made with "household" chemicals
• Canada has swimming pools too..why don't we invade them?

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A cheap substitute to biological weapons? (Ingredients probably obtained from the INTERNET). A handfull of nuts and bolts will also make an effective weaopn but obviously the casualty rate was expected to be much higher.

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Under the average kitchen sink or out the back in the shed are sufficient materials to do tremendous damage. The info is in the public domain and has been for years, even before the internet was available widely [...].

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Yes, here I am. I see no link between Saddam and the Chlorine gas. Please construct one.

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The straight talk express. You gotta love it.

It's not a secret that you can misuse household chemicals, fertilizer or chlorine for water treatment as weapons. But I would rather not see detailed instructions how to do that here on the forum. Thank you.

weaponisation of the chemicals? I think I understand your meaning, no doubt. But these were not the WMD's that Iraq was supposedly invaded for despite the hysterical claims of some neo cons.

Supposedly... according to whom?

I understand that some dumb motherfuckers in the liberal press are still trying to forward the vague idea that Iraq was invaded to go find WMD.

Liberals are very stupid people. Most of them have brain damage.

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WOW the eloquence and thoroughness of the conservative mind is a wonder to behold. Seems also to be a rare thing to behold.

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