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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (26298)	4/20/2004 10:52:02 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Which was the greater threat, Saddam's stockpile of chemical weapons, or our stockpile of chemical weapons? --------------------------------- The Army says its stockpiles of chemical weapons are a threat to the American people that must be disposed of expeditiously. --------------------------------- VX is the most deadly of the chemical weapons; ingestion of only 10 milligrams can cause death. The government created the stockpile during the 1960's at the height of the Cold War, but has only recently decided to dispose of the lethal chemicals. The United States agreed to destroy its reserves of VX, GB and Mustard gases by 2015 when it signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) treaty in 1997. [edit: this was many years after Saddam had last used chemical weapons] ---------------------------------- "The recent events in Spain underscore that terrorists will go after targets they value," said Colonel Jesse Barber, the project manager overseeing the Army's Alternative Technologies and Approaches group. "The greatest risk [to Americans] is the continued storage of our chemical weapons." alternet.org