Facts Won't Change Anti-War Minds
update In all fairness, this discovery will have similarly little effect on most pro-war arguments: "Smoking gun" WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide.
I'm skeptical that this Reuters story about a WMD discovery in Iraq will get many people to change their anti-war stance, despite gloating over the lack of such evidence just one day ago.
I'm skeptical that this Reuters story about a WMD discovery in Iraq will get many people to change their anti-war stance, despite gloating over the lack of such evidence just one day ago.
Report: U.S. Finds Missiles with Chemical Weapons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.
NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."
It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.
U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar had no immediate comment.
The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq (news - web sites) to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies having such weapons.
Likely reactions:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.
NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."
It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.
U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar had no immediate comment.
The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq (news - web sites) to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies having such weapons.
- Changing the subject: "Wow. We found a handful of missiles? Was that really work [insert other complaint — making the UN irrelevant, causing thousands of deaths, enraging the Arab world, etc. — here]?"
- Forwarding a claim that can't be disproved: "Oh, well if you'd just have given the U.N. inspectors [who knows how much] more time, they would have located these weapons."
- Flat-out paranoia: "The US planted them to save face. The media [even NPR] has been a lapdog of the administration all along, just repeating what they're spoon-fed."
Comments: Facts Won't Change Anti-War Minds
You forgot the one I would have used: Bush was still wrong to invade without providing justification to the security council up-front.
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