I personally don’t care to believe anything about Hussein. I don’t have to. I just sit down and get the facts presented. In my understanding, a 55-gallon container full of pesticides is not classified as WMD. What will you do with it? Load it on an An-12, fly over the troops and drop the sh!t? Good luck trying…

While I don’t doubt a POSSIBILITY of its use as a weapon, the same way a barrel full of boiling water would kill you. Or do you want to start to classify a kitchen knife your wife uses as a personal defence weapon?

From the article, note the use of the term “drums” and not “drum”
:Another find occurred around the northern Iraqi town of Bai’ji, where elements of the 4th Infantry Division (Mech) discovered 55-gallon drums of a substance that mass spectrometer testing confirmed was cyclosarin and an unspecified blister agent. A mobile laboratory was also found nearby that could have been used to mix chemicals at the site. And only yards away, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, as well as gas masks were found. Of course, later tests by the experts revealed that these were only the ubiquitous pesticides that everybody was turning up. It seems that Iraqi soldiers were obsessed with keeping their ammo dumps insect-free, according to the reading of the evidence now enshrined by the conventional wisdom that “no WMD stockpiles have been discovered.”

1. Got a link?
2. Does that mean that every country using pesticides is now a threat? Time to start packing..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110254/posts

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38213

Its ok, you just let your sweet little head believe Saddam had an insect problem of biblical proportions if you want to, don’t be suprised when others start laughing at you though.

Dual purpose items for a chemical factory are something like that.

Reminds me of the US troops who found absolutly massive amounts (thousands of barrels) of a dual use pesticide chemicals in Iraq following the invasion, all of it was stored in hardened military bunkers.
As the troops who found it said, Saddam either had one hell of an insect problem that required military oversight or he was up to no good. I will leave the reader to figure the probable reason for these massive stock piles to themselves…

Oh, just let every Terrorist Group have Nuclear Weapons! :rolleyes:

Yep, thats exactly what our Che loving Iran fan coolieno99 and many others here would like to see, the mass prolification of nuclear weaponry to shifty states that are known to be the worlds biggest exporters of terrorism.
(I’d normally snigger at this point but humour fails me in this case)