RED DAVE

I found no previous reference to this on the forum. Please excuse me if this is a repeat of a previous thread.

Here is the text of Blix's report to the UN. It is moderate intelligent, informative AND CONTAINS NO BASIS WHATSOEVER FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION!

It's all bullshit, folks. And here's the proof. 50 fucking canisters of gas. That's 10,000 deaths per canister if we go to war. Talk about weapons of mass destruction!

The Blix Report

RED DAVE

Amen-Moses

What on earth are you on about?

Are you talking about th 50 litres of Mustard gas? If so then that wouldn't kill 10,000 even if you hand fed each person a spoonful!

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mecca777

I imagine Red Dave is referring to a figure of around half-a-million military and civilian deaths if a war in Iraq takes place, which works out at 10k deaths for each canister of outdated WW1-era chemical weapon.

Note that I have no idea whether 500k deaths is a likely, conservative or wildly exaggerated prediction for the number of deaths which the war in Iraq is going to cause. But that seems to be the context of Dave's OP.

Amen-Moses

Oh right, I get it now!

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Mr. Superbad

I guess Blix completely forgot what happened during the inspections in 98.

Oh, well it's only a 1000 tons. It's easy to lose track that. I lose 1000 tons of stuff all the time.

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The 1000 tons includes all the pre-cursors and chemical agents imported by Iraq prior to 1991. According to the Iraqi goverment these have been disposed of and the names of the some of the people who took part in the disposal have been given to the inspectors so they can check it out. They have also been given the location of the disposal site so bore holing should be able to confirm the story but will not be able to confirm the quantity after so many years.

I don't doubt for a moment that some clever book-keeping by industrial agencies made some of the dual-use chemicals disappear, heck the profit made by selling off some of the stuff to Iran, Syria, Afghanistan or even Pakistan would be enough to cause to odd clever individual to go into the smuggling game.

That doesn't mean though that the government is automatically to blaim for the disappearance anymore than the US government is responsible for their stolen military equipment which gets into the hands of terrorists, or are they?

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