PatsFanInEaglesLand

Actually he and mikey are doing a better job of defending the animal, than his own defense lawyers, I guess his lawyers aren't panting for November and will dissmiss anything that will get in the way.

PATSNUTme

I don't have a link. The "many" came from a news report I heard on Imus this morning while driving to work. "Many" could mean 99% or 55%. That is not my big concern.

My big concern is some terrorist group getting a hold of even the "degraded stuff.

Now, right after 9/11, and well before the Iraq issue came up, I did extensive reading on this. It was a very selfish reason. My daughter was going to grad school at NYU and living and working in Manhattan. In fact she worked in a in one of the tallest buildings just 4 blocks from the WTC and witnessed the whole thing. She was living in lower Manhattan and I was sick with worry.

Anyway, in reading that I did, I came across a couple of articles on how terrorist could use "degraded" mustard & sarin and other stuff to launch an attack on verious soft targets in our cities.

The stuff that we found was "weaponized" in that while in an artillery shell when fired it mixes with another chemical which then cause it to become a vapor when exploded. If it sits in the shell for an extended length of time it starts to "degrade".

When it degrades it becomes a gooey substance and is no longer "weaponized" in that it will not be effective as a WMD fired as an artillery shell. But the substance could be taken out of the shell and mixed with another substance and used as a poor mans WMD. It would not be as lethal as the original "weaponized" stuff but plenty lethal enough to be use in a subway with a smaller explosive charge.

If I can locate these articles in my pile of junk, I'll post them. Are they availible on line? I have no idea, I wasn't using the internet at that time.

patsfan13

IIRC there were some chem weapons storage facilities in Dugway Ut, and Pueblo Flats Co. Th eleft folks were claiming that the nerve gas was deadly in the 80's 30+ years afterthey were manufactured. I guess Iraqi chems degrade quicker than US chems in the view if left wing 'peace' groups. LOL

google dugway and you'll get lotsa hits.

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Patters

That's fine, PATSNUTme. I'll take your word for it. Given it's danger, it's hard to understand why it was never an issue, even when Iraq said it didn't destroy some of it's expired materials. Maybe it was never an issue because the Iraqis could not find it. From the sound of the Fox article, the old weapons were found scattered about at various weapons sites (which says something about how nutty Saddam's military was).

patsfan13

Remember the translated memos indicating that theIraqi's were moving and hiding this stuff.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."