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Thread #71319   Message #1219613
Posted By: Nerd
05-Jul-04 - 09:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: New thread on WMD
Subject: RE: BS: New thread on WMD
From ABC News:

In Baghdad, the U.S. military issued a statement saying that two 122 mm rockets found by Polish forces had tested positive for sarin gas and confirmed that they were left over from the Iran-Iraq war, but said they posed little danger.

The statement said an Iraqi civilian had led the soldiers to the rockets in the town of Hilla, 62 miles south of Baghdad on June 16.

"Due to the deteriorated state of the rounds and small quantity of remaining agent, these rounds were determined to have limited to no impact if used by insurgents against Coalition Forces," the statement said.

The Iraqi showed the Polish troops 16 more 122 mm rockets from June 23 to 26, which were all empty and tested negative for any type of chemicals, the U.S. statement said.


So we're talking about two rounds with little agent.

Beardedbruce, no one is saying that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. But Rumsfeld said he knew just where the WMD were, too. THAT we know was wrong.

We could invade every country in the world on the premise that "you can't prove that they DON'T have stuff that violates their treaties." That's madness.