Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 16:33:04 GMT -6
Oh.. This is dandy. I feel so much better to now know this. After all, the article mentions they were destroyed in open air. Some were de-mil'ed shells, but many were not and had the bad stuff on-board when they popped it in the open.
Just keep this image in mind, and it will make the story easier to understand for having happened.
Now before anyone gets the wrong idea...These were not chem weapons made anytime recent to the time they were destroyed. Hardly and far from it.
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It really shouldn't matter though. Would we have been 'cool' with them destroying the US arsenal in open blast pits and demolition piles in the Nevada Desert?? (Oh..yeah..did something like that once, huh? Ask John Wayne..err.) This is a populated country, and at that time? Populated by OUR people in as wide a spread to be impacted by this as the locals.
Idiocy...just doesn't cover it sometimes. Words themselves may fall short, completely.
Just keep this image in mind, and it will make the story easier to understand for having happened.
The United States recovered thousands of old chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 and destroyed almost all of them in secret and via open-air detonation, according to a written summary of its activities prepared by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international body that monitors implementation of the global chemical weapons treaty.
Now before anyone gets the wrong idea...These were not chem weapons made anytime recent to the time they were destroyed. Hardly and far from it.
Its authors noted that none of the weapons had been recently manufactured. All were legacy items from Iraq’s chemical weapons program in the 1980s and early 1990s. That program had been rushed into production during the Iran-Iraq War and then destroyed in the 1991 Gulf War and the period of United Nations inspections that followed.
It really shouldn't matter though. Would we have been 'cool' with them destroying the US arsenal in open blast pits and demolition piles in the Nevada Desert?? (Oh..yeah..did something like that once, huh? Ask John Wayne..err.) This is a populated country, and at that time? Populated by OUR people in as wide a spread to be impacted by this as the locals.
Idiocy...just doesn't cover it sometimes. Words themselves may fall short, completely.