U.N. Inspectors Find Empty Chemical Warheads In Iraq

[Terri]

By Tom Elia
GOPUSA News
January 17, 2002

(GOPUSA News) -- United Nations weapons inspectors discovered several warheads capable of carrying chemical weapons in Iraq Thursday. These weapons had not been listed by Iraq in its weapons declaration last December according to a U.N. spokesman in Baghdad.

However, a U.N. spokesman in New York later said they would wait until the evidence came in before making a judgment about whether the weapons had been listed in the report.

An Iraqi spokesman in Baghdad, Amir al-Saadi, denied that the weapons were not listed.

A senior adviser to Saddam Hussein, al-Saadi said the warheads were included in a 1996 declaration of Iraq's weapons programs and the same "type" was included in the 12,000-page declaration given to the Security Council on Dec. 7.

Amir al-Saadi said that the U.S. wants to make this "a huge finding related to mass destruction weapons."

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[BIG CASINO]

Gosh, could these warheads be some sort of "RED HERRING", the purpose of which could be to 'tweek' the U.S. and make us look foolish? If we don't react, the world could well ask why we wanted inspections in the first place, and if we over react we look like frightened bullies!

Thank God we have 'W' at the helm now instead of 'Bubba' Clinton and his staff of misfits!


Paddle forward, kids

[pRIMrose]

Good call BC. I'm more than a little curious about what Powell, et al, intend to release in the way of corroboration of WMD on the 27th. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sarcasm.gif I hope they have a ton of stuff to make Sodumb look like the sycophant he is. If the Iraqi people ever get out from under his heel, they'll soon see him for what he really is. Maybe they'll do to him what the Italians did to Mussolini. I know, too much to hope for. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tqrolleyes.gif

[Granite River]

What is keeping us from broadcasting our own message to the Iraqi people on the same channel that Sobumb uses? Our radio and television signals beamed into Iraq should be so powerful that they would kill low flying birds. We should have thousands of people of the streets spreading our message of a free and open society to the people of Iraq. Then if we see that the people don’t want a democratic government we won’t feel bad about roasting a few of them.