Those “Worthless” WMDs
I missed this last week from Jim Geraghty at TKS (HT “S.O.B.er” Brain Shavings, who has many more links and a nice table at his post) as he dressed down Alan Colmes’ intellectual complete dishonesty about the state of mustard gas shells found in Iraq:
A 94 to 97 percent purity after seven years (cited in a UN inspectors’ 1999 letter about mustard gas) strikes me as pretty long lasting. Presuming that the rate of degradation is stable (is there a reason deterioration would accelerate in year eight or later?) the year 2003 would mean that at the time of the invasion, these shells had a purity of 88 to 94 percent. Sounds pretty potent to me.
Try researching, Alan. Mustard gas keeps its toxicity for a long time. Stop telling your viewers and listeners that the weapons were “degraded” — which, without context, sounds like “harmless.”
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Previous Posts:
- June 22 — MORE WMD Findings Revealed (Adding to Richard Miniter’s October 2005 List)
- June 13 — The “No WMD” Lie: An Addendum
- March 18 — Weekend Question 1: When Will We Hear the “Never Mind” on the “No WMD” Claim?
- March 3 — Why Isn’t There a Groundswell of Media and Other Protest about This “Coverup”?
- Feb. 15 — The Saddam Tapes, If They Prove WMDs, Will Be Icing on an Already-Baked Cake
- Feb. 8 — The “No WMD” Lie (Yet Again) at Coretta Scott King’s Funeral — And a Challenge
- Nov. 2, 2005 — The “No WMD” Lie (with LINKED Proof)
- Oct. 27 — The “No WMD” Lie
Lost old WW I mustard gas shells have killed people within the past decade.
Comment by LargeBill — June 29, 2006 @ 6:11 pm
Great point. Geraghty said almost as much at the end of his post: “Also, TKS reader Ed notes that every year, some unlucky French farmers have health complications from run-ins with mustard gas left over from World War One.”
Comment by TBlumer — June 30, 2006 @ 12:04 am