Chemical Weapons?

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We have heard for months about Iraq'a "weapons of mass destruction," and as we all know, Neither the UN inspectors, US Special Operations Forces, nor now the US military have been able to find anything.

However, the military says that they have found two different "stashes" of protective gear. This is supposedly proof that the weapons exist even if we can't find them. It might also indicate that someone else might have bio-chem weapons (say Iran which used them during the Iran-Iraq war, or even gasp the US). Of course, we have roughly 300,000 sets of protective gear in Iraq too.

Does that mean that we have bio-chem weapons to use in Iraq? Maybe -- the National Security Strategy says that we do and that we will use them (if we see fit).

Personally, I don't see protective gear (under the circumstances) as a "smoking gun." I do think that is telling that none have been found. Apparently Hans Blix feels the same way. In today's Pakistan Daily Times Blix says no proof Iraq has chemical arms

QUOTE:" LONDON: The uncovering of 3,000 chemical suits and masks at a hospital in southern Iraq by US marines does not prove Iraq has chemical weapons, United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix said on Wednesday. “I don’t think this is evidence of lethal weapons. It certainly raises suspicions that the Iraqis might have expected use of chemical weapons and therefore required the suits. I think we will have to find more solid evidence than this,” Blix told BBC television. US marines confiscated the chemical suits and masks from a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah that had been used by Iraqi paramilitaries, the US military said on Wednesday. —AFP"

As the saying goes: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."

Posted by rowan at March 27, 2003 09:11 PM | Printable Version | [eMail this article!] |