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peacenik · 04-06-2003, 08:42 PM

This time they lied about the marines finding chemicals weapons in an abandoned facility. It turns out that the chemicals found were actually insecticide, and the facility was previously an insecticide plant that was shut down after the First Gulf War. After reporting this and making a huge deal about it, they made a very breif retraction.

Fair and Balenced my ass!!!

Sauron · 04-06-2003, 09:32 PM

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Originally posted by peacenik
This time they lied about the marines finding chemicals weapons in an abandoned facility. It turns out that the chemicals found were actually insecticide, and the facility was previously an insecticide plant that was shut down after the First Gulf War. After reporting this and making a huge deal about it, they made a very breif retraction.

Fair and Balenced my ass!!!

Hey Spurly - wonder why no one with a thimbleful of intelligence actually trusts Fox News?

Try the above on for size.

LymanLover · 04-06-2003, 10:13 PM

Oh come on, I haven't been here long, but I can already tell that Spurly doesn't read anything that might possibily contradict his deeply held convictions. What kind of a Christian would he be?

openeyes · 04-06-2003, 10:31 PM

Well, you knew from the start that we'd have to find some nasty chemicals of mass-destruction some place. We wouldn't actually end up planting something someplace if nothing else is found, would we? (The way this war's been spun, I'll be looking long and hard at the evidence should some actual mass-destruction agents (of humans, not insects) be found.)

Leave it to Fox to be the conduit of war-positive misinformation.

Sue Sponte · 04-07-2003, 01:41 AM

These were Insecticides of Mass Destruction. Saddam used them in the early nineties on a colony of fire ants in Kurdish territory.

I doubt you lefties would be saying the same things if these insecticides were sold to a terrorist and used on bugs in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

Mediancat · 04-07-2003, 06:32 AM

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Originally posted by peacenik
This time they lied about the marines finding chemicals weapons in an abandoned facility. It turns out that the chemicals found were actually insecticide, and the facility was previously an insecticide plant that was shut down after the First Gulf War. After reporting this and making a huge deal about it, they made a very breif retraction.

Fair and Balanced my ass!!!

-- Do you have a link for that? I've been arguing with someone that if that powder had been actual chemical weapons we would have heard it trumpeted to the skies and not quietly buried, and some backing evidence would be very useful.

Rob aka Mediancat

sir drinks-a-lot · 04-07-2003, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by peacenik
This time they lied about the marines finding chemicals weapons in an abandoned facility. It turns out that the chemicals found were actually insecticide, and the facility was previously an insecticide plant that was shut down after the First Gulf War. After reporting this and making a huge deal about it, they made a very breif retraction.

Fair and Balenced my ass!!!

Provide links, please.

Ultron · 04-07-2003, 10:55 AM

Fox isn't the only news agency reporting this. Plus NPR just reported even more found.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...=564&ncid=1473

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Report: U.S. Finds Missiles with Chemical Weapons

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.

NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."

It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.

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KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Preliminary tests on substances found at a military training camp in central Iraq (news - web sites) suggest they contain a cocktail of banned chemical weapons, including deadly nerve agents, U.S. officers said on Monday.

Maj. Michael Hamlet of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division said the initial tests revealed levels of nerve agents sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite, Reuters correspondent Kieran Murray reported from a U.S. military post at Kerbala.

Hamlet said a team of experts would carry out further tests as early as Tuesday on the substances, discovered at the camp in Albu Mahawish, on the Euphrates river between the central Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Hilla, site of ancient Babylon.

"If tests from our experts confirm this, this could be the smoking gun. It would prove (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)) has the weapons we have said he has all along," Hamlet said. "But right now we just don't know."

Warwick · 04-07-2003, 10:58 AM

"Chemical Weapons Possibly Found in Iraq"

Fox headline

Possibly Found

Optional · 04-07-2003, 11:13 AM

This new stuff seems to be seperate incidents from what is mentioned in the OP.

-me

04-06-2003, 08:42 PM	#1
peacenik Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Knoxville, TN Posts: 331	Fox News did it again. This time they lied about the marines finding chemicals weapons in an abandoned facility. It turns out that the chemicals found were actually insecticide, and the facility was previously an insecticide plant that was shut down after the First Gulf War. After reporting this and making a huge deal about it, they made a very breif retraction. Fair and Balenced my ass!!!

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04-06-2003, 10:13 PM	#3
LymanLover Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 1,982	Oh come on, I haven't been here long, but I can already tell that Spurly doesn't read anything that might possibily contradict his deeply held convictions. What kind of a Christian would he be?

04-06-2003, 10:31 PM	#4
openeyes Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Minnesota Posts: 4,215	Well, you knew from the start that we'd have to find some nasty chemicals of mass-destruction some place. We wouldn't actually end up planting something someplace if nothing else is found, would we? (The way this war's been spun, I'll be looking long and hard at the evidence should some actual mass-destruction agents (of humans, not insects) be found.) Leave it to Fox to be the conduit of war-positive misinformation.

04-07-2003, 01:41 AM	#5
Sue Sponte Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: west Posts: 1,213	These were Insecticides of Mass Destruction. Saddam used them in the early nineties on a colony of fire ants in Kurdish territory. I doubt you lefties would be saying the same things if these insecticides were sold to a terrorist and used on bugs in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

04-07-2003, 10:58 AM	#9
Warwick Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: MA, USA Posts: 77	"Chemical Weapons Possibly Found in Iraq" Fox headline Possibly Found

04-07-2003, 11:13 AM	#10
Optional Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Chicago, IL, USA Posts: 1,049	This new stuff seems to be seperate incidents from what is mentioned in the OP. -me

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