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To: longnshort who wrote (138664)	7/2/2004 5:03:37 PM
From: exdaytrader76	Respond to of 281500

his troops thwarted terrorists by purchasing the 17 rockets for a Soviet-era launcher and two mortar rounds containing the nerve agent for an undisclosed sum But now the Polish have WMD! Shall we invade? (no Polish jokes, pleez)

To: longnshort who wrote (138664)	7/2/2004 11:40:53 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Why is Fox News the only one carrying this story??? Because Iraq didn't have any WMD's, that's why. It was all a lie made up by the Bush administration to justify a giveaway to Halliburton, just like the overthrow of the Taliban was to let Unocal put a pipeline across Afghanistan. Michael Moore made a film about it. Surely that settles it. I mean, he wouldn't mislead anyone would he, especially on such an important issue? It doesn't matter that chemical munitions are being found. They didn't exist. It's been decided. It also doesn't matter that the previous administration had maintained the same thing as Bush as had numerous other countries. That was then. Bush is President now. And Iraq didn't have WMD's. BTW the Powerline blog has a photo of some of the banned chemical munitions that didn't exist. Looks like they'd been buried to me.

To: longnshort who wrote (138664)	7/3/2004 12:31:05 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi longnshort; Re: "Why is Fox News the only one carrying this story [i.e. Polish Troops Find Sarin Warheads]?" Probably because it's not significant news. Those were old junk warheads. Here's the "rest of the story": Iraqi rebels may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin, the head of Poland's military intelligence said Friday. But in Iraq, the U.S. military said trace amounts of the nerve agent found in a cache of the rockets dating to the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war were so deteriorated they would have had "little to no impact if used by insurgents."" cnews.canoe.ca -- Carl

To: longnshort who wrote (138664)	7/3/2004 3:10:19 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

Same old BS. <Warheads found in Iraq not chemical weapons, military says> Fri Jul 2, 2:44 PM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! BAGHDAD (AFP) - Multinational forces in Iraq (news - web sites) said that more than a dozen missile warheads said to contain mustard gas or sarin have tested negative for chemical agents. Washington had announced the find by Polish troops on Thursday, which was later confirmed by Warsaw. The head of Poland's military intelligence service also said on Friday that "terrorist" groups were seeking to acquire the weapons. But the 122mm warheads, found in late June, have been found not to contain the deadly chemicals, a statement from multinational forces here said. "Those 16 rounds were all empty and tested negative for any type of chemicals," it said. Two other warheads found in mid-June were found to contain an insignificant amount of sarin gas. The armaments were left over from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, the statement said. "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." Washington justified leading the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by claiming the country was harbouring weapons of mass destruction. However, none has yet been found. news.yahoo.com