Monday, October 20, 2003

From the Opening Page of the Republican National Committee Website: http://www.rnc.com on Oct. 20th, 2003:

GOP Topline: Iraqi Progress Report by David Kay
October 8, 2003

President Bush was right: Iraq was led by an evil regime; lethal to its own people, in deepening material breach of its Security Council obligations, and a threat to international peace and security. Saddam Hussein would have stopped at nothing until something stopped him.
Some of the things, in only three months, David Kay’s group have uncovered:
  A clandestine network of biological laboratories and safe houses maintained by the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
  "Reference strains" of biological organisms concealed in scientists homes, including a live strain of deadly botulinum, ricin, and aflatoxin.
  Advanced design work on prohibited longer-range missiles and SCUD missile propellant.
  Newly documented links between Iraq and North Korea with documents detailing Iraq's attempt to buy missile equipment from North Korea.

The full text version provided by the CIA is here.

If you have concerns about the US arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, consider the situation in Anniston, Alabama. Of the US Army's CBW arsenal, eight thousand TONS of chemical agents, and over 1.3 million munitions have been destroyed by the US Army since 1990. The Army estimates it will take seven YEARS of burns at the Anniston site to destroy their stockpile estimated at 2,254 tons of chemical warfare agents. Additional sites in Utah and on Johnson Atol in the Pacific will process smaller quantities of these agents and delivery systems.

While 2,254 tons is a huge amount, the Army has stated that this comprises about 7% of the total US Cold-War Era CW weaponry! Imagine that America created in excess of 3.2 MILLION TONS of this stuff. Sheeze ! Forget about the $600 toilet, what was the DOD's intent in creating this quantity of weaponry? MAD?

Incredible !!



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