Inconceivable!

well, it will be a matter of moments before teh flamewar begins here, illiciting the post/comment

"Well you damn left-wing pinko-commies hippies, what do you have to say now?"

**I only wonder why we, here in the U.S. are deemed intelligent and worthy enough to stockpile our own weapons of mass destruction?

***Flame On***

Flame:
If we had given them enough time, the inspectors would have found it!!! (yeah, right)

Hello, my name is Inigo (Muhammad) Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die.

Whoa!! Shocker!! If my yawn gets any bigger, they'll have to assign a hurricane name to it. (respect to Dennis Miller)

It's a lie. It's a lie. Damn American Propaganda.

It was planted by the Jews!

Just ask the French, they know that we hide the WMD else where, hmm I mean that we have no WMD.

We need to send Scott Ridder in there to do some inspecting for us. He should not have a problem with that, since there isn't anything there.

I'm shocked...shocked.

When do we get to inspect the mosques?

How do you say, "Damn, Jews!" in French?

Yawn...what is this the 100th "find"?
more DDT?

Oops. I guess that should be Scott Ritter above.

Bztera:

The whole moral relativism game with WMD's is tempting, but let's not play it.

The Iraqis have actually _used_ WMD's in violation of their ban. Yeah, yeah, we used a-bombs in WWII, and France & Germany used plenty of mustard gas before that, but a broad consensus about the unthinkable character of these weapons has only emerged since then.

Whatever you think about the United States and its history, there is a huge gulf between WMD's possessed by a democratic state and WMD's possessed by a mass murdering Stalinist thug.

And that's just the moral case. Even if someone could prove to me that the USA and Iraq were morally equivalent (and where would _you_ rather live?), the end result would be no different. We would then just be in a morally relative world of Realpolitik, where the U.S. would have a vested interest in stamping out the WMD's of enemy nations. So, I don't really see a case for our allowing countries like Iraq and Iran and North Korea to have these things.

best wishes,

g.

btezra,

We, the US, stockpile our own WMD's to keep people like Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, and Communist China in check.

Are you suggesting that it would be preferable if we lived under THEIR tyranny?

People started to throw up and blister when the went into the room.

That's some strong stuff!

I still see nothing wrong with this mustard stuff....I mean I have been putting it on my hot dogs for years without any ill consequences. Maybe the iraqis like cookouts with hotdogs and german wursts? Who knows..I cant condemn them for some hotdog dressings though.

I agree. I mean, if the police have guns, is it not justified and moral that criminals should have guns?

I mean, what is the difference?

(And if you can find this argument compelling then you have a serious problem...)

I wasn't going to flame, but somebody said "Scott Ritter".

When we really find WMD, and I believe we will, I want that little pedophile sent to the site and let the real Marines have a nice conversation with him about them.

Scott Ritter is a traiter to America and needs to be hung from lamp post and beaten by neighborhood children.

The man is the lowliest maggot on Earth. He makes Saddam seem like a "misunderstood" guy.

Penosity, "Do you know what that means? I do not think it means what you think it means."

"Scott Ritter ...needs to be ... beaten by neighborhood children."

Isn't that what originally got him into trouble with the law?

48 stories and counting on WMD "smoking guns" on command post. all of them over 12 hours old have proved to be false. Not one of them corrected.

bias?

Man, sometimes reading these comments is better than the story itself. Thanks for the good work, keep it up!

Graham, Randy, I understand the temptation but you're both forgetting the rule: Don't Feed the Trolls.

I know, I know, they look so cute, with their wide, vacant eyes and that disarming, slack-mouthed drool, but we must obey the rules. If you feed them, they get agitated and start flinging faeces everywhere in their mindless paroxysms. It's an unattractive sight.

So please, ignore those plaintive if unintelligible cries for attention and restrain yourselves. It really is for the best.

RANDY: I am not trying to play devil's advocate here, but when you look in teh mirror, that is if you are a nation not prescribing to democracy, which there are tons, and desire to gain weapons to protect yourself with or use as offensive, as the U.S. does, with chem. bio, nuke, conventional, why is it always the American point of view and reasoning that is the correct one? We, as a relatively young country in comparision to many other nations, seemingly have taken the view that our way is the way, any other thought or reasoning is absurd. We actually used the bomb in Japan to stop a war, kiiling far many than we believed we would, but we did it to stop a war. Which made it right, but not to those who's children and families were incinerated with the blast.
I love my country, support ourt freedoms and those defedning them, but some on, the old hawks, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney, cannot believe that democratizing the Middle East is actually something that can be validated by proporting our search to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction, that is bullshit. This "find" is nothing new to me or the news.