But wait, there's more:
11. and this
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=5578193
Polish Army Says Iraq Shells Had Deadly Cyclosarin
Fri Jul 2, 2004 01:26 PM ET
By Wojciech Moskwa
WARSAW (Reuters) - Artillery shells found by Polish troops in Iraq definitely contained the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin, the Polish army said on Friday.
The threat of weapons of mass destruction possessed by Saddam Hussein's now toppled regime was the main justification used by Washington to go to war against Iraq last year, but U.S.-led forces have only found small amounts of banned weapons.
Poland said its soldiers found 17 Grad rockets and two mortar shells in late June and said U.S. experts had carried out tests on the weapons.
"Tests conducted showed that there was cyclosarin in the rocket heads," General Marek Dukaczewski, the head of army intelligence, told a news conference.
But the U.S. military said only two of the rockets had tested positive for sarin gas, and another 16 of the rockets found by the Poles had contained no chemical agents. The reason for the discrepancy in numbers was unclear.
12. And let's not forget this:
Those are photos of some of the the chemical munitions
Saddam had neither disclosed to the UN nor destroyed.
IN this case (obviously) these worn out mustard gas shells
are (obviously) no longer a threat.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1023481.htm
13. and this
these are photos of Saddam'sURANIUM ENRICHMENT CENTRIFUGE.
It was found by Inspector David Kay on the SECOND DAY of his post war inspections. Under direct orders from Qusay the scientist in charge hid the stuff by digging a deep hole under the rose bush in the private garden behind his house. Blix never found it and never would have.
14 the there was this:
Iraq also maintained more than a hundred bioweapons reference strains
David kay found these within his first week or so.
they had been stored in the refrigerator of the private home of an iraqi weapons scientist. Blix never found it and never would have.
Both of these photos come to us courtesy of David Kay.
Who also testified about them before Congress.
That Saddam's scientists admitted (after the war but not before) to working on a variety of bioweapons including
- Brucella
- Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
- ricin and
- aflatoxin.
15. Oh yeah, let's not forget
Kay also testified to finding
" A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research."
The labs were hidden in prisons, mosques even in a secret room of a nuclear research facility. Blix never found them and never would have.
16. and then
Once Saddam was arrested iraqi scientists admitted that they had been working on a rail gun. A rail gun of their design has two possible purposes
- flinging pumpkins really really far
- a firing mechanism for a nuclear weapon.
From David Kay's ACTUAL statement to congress:
"With regard to Iraq's nuclear program, the testimony we have obtained from Iraqi scientists and senior government officials should clear up any doubts about whether Saddam still wanted to obtain nuclear weapons. They have told ISG that Saddam Husayn remained firmly committed to acquiring nuclear weapons. These officials assert that Saddam would have resumed nuclear weapons development at some future point. Some indicated a resumption after Iraq was free of sanctions."
Hans Blix never got them to fess up and never would have.
17. and also
The of course there is the radioactive cesium(DIRTY BOMB MATERIAL) that marines found BURIED UNDER A 30 FOOT PILE OF GRAVE at a WEAPONS PLANT in Iraq.
http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/I...inspectors.htm
Cesium would have been legal for Saddam to import under sanctions because it can be used to calibrate chemotherapy machines.
Of course Saddam had stockpiled a VERY large quantity of the stuff
He also
- chose to buy it on the black market,
- smuggle it into the country
- hide it from inspectors
- store it at a WEAPONS PLANT
- and buried it under a 30 ft pile of gravel.
19. and this
The temporary ceasefire to the 1991 gulf war pargaraphs 8-9 clearly states:
"8. . . Iraq shall unconditionally accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless, under international supervision, of: (a) All chemical and biological weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities; (b) All ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometres and related major parts, and repair and production facilities;
9. Decides, for the implementation of paragraph 8 above, the following:
(a) Iraq shall . . . within forty-five days of the passage of the present resolution, shall develop, and submit to the Council for approval, a plan calling for the . . . The yielding by Iraq of possession to the Special Commission for destruction, removal or rendering harmless, taking into account the requirements of public safety, of all items specified under paragraph 8 (a) above, including items at the additional locations designated by the Special Commission under paragraph 9 (b). . .
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUT...df?OpenElement
Now note (as one of numerous exmples) that Iraq's own claims were that instead of than complying with the ceasefire, it unilaterlly undertook the destruction of 157 r-400 aerial bombs filled with bioolgical weapons by destroying them and burying the rennants at the Al Azziziyah firing range, located approximately 100 km south-east of Baghdad.
Since Saddam claimed 157 were destoyed OBVIOUSLY no more than 157 were ever Built.
For ten years Iraq repeatedly refused to allow UN inspectors access to the site. (In direct violation of the ceaefire). Blix and the other inspectors simply decided that Saddam was right, they complied with Saddam's every wish.
Finally under threat of war, in February 2003 Saddam agreed that the UN would be allowed to inspect Al Azziziyah. According to Blix's own report:
they found 36 in-tact r-400 bombs and 96 base plates.
Even if 157 were the total number of r-400 bombs Saddam ever produced, he never complied with the ceasefire, he never turned them over to the UN, hid 36 of them intact and has never dislcosed the location of the other 25. This has been disclosed and confirmed by hans blix.
SOURCE:
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/...s-2003-580.pdf
Blix himself noted:
"the operation could not verify the total quantities of biological agents destroyed, still less the total quantities produced. . . . "
SOURCE:
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/...s-2003-580.pdf
How many r-400 bombs should Saddam's terrorist groups have been allowed to have?
The simple fact is Saddam was hiding alot of bad stuff.
Not enough to take over the US. Not enough to make or break a single battle in a ground war but certainly a threat in the hands of terrorists, like those that Saddam sponsored.
Hussein had no intentions of disarming and every intention of rearming as soon as he could bribe the UN into backing off.
