tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post5898408544907521668..comments2024-03-25T07:29:08.216-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: Merely Thinking It Does Not Make It So...Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-88226176609697143072012-06-23T21:25:06.823-04:002012-06-23T21:25:06.823-04:00You know, the Iraqis did use mustard gas on the Ir...You know, the Iraqis did use mustard gas on the Iranians during their war, and nerve gas on the Kurds, all pre-Gulf War. And, despite the efforts of the inspectors after the Gulf War until 1998 and again right before the invasion, some 500 chemical weapon shells were found scatter and buried around Iraq, most seemingly forgotten. The shells were apparently degraded and not useful for military purposes, but might have been useful to terrorists (that Saddam Hussein generally had no contact with). I mean, even if it is ten years old and supposedly degraded, would you want to be in the room when a shell with nerve gas was opened up? <br /><br />Not me.<br /><br />But those are a lot of caveats, and in any event the business about where Obama was born is simply cut and dried. <br /><br />Fox News and the rest of the right wing noise machine is pretty successful.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.com