Looking for WMD? 8 million chemical weapons exist

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-chem27.html

They were no-shows in Iraq, but tons of chemical weapons are stoking fears and costing billions to clean up elsewhere in the world -- from concrete ''igloos'' in Oregon, to the Panama rainforest, to the highlands of China, where Japanese war leftovers reportedly have killed hundreds.

In fact, more chemical munitions have turned up lately in Australia than in Iraq, where the Bush administration claimed up to 500 tons would be found. As Baghdad arms hunters searched in vain, chemical weapons material was even being unearthed in Washington, four miles from the White House.

At least 8 million such weapons are stockpiled worldwide, and concern is deepening not only over the health and safety of nearby communities, but also over the threat of theft or attacks on depots brimming with sarin or VX, fearsome nerve agents.

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[Fovea]

1. and yet supposedly * has made us safer.

I feel decidedly less safe now than I did on 9-12.
I will feel a lot safer when the PNAC conspirators are all safely in the Hague.

[soaky]

2. more detailed version of the AP story

here

[LynnTheDem]

3. WMD found at last!!!

But not in Iraq...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,965319,00.html

[ET Awful]

4. Let's not forget the guy in Texas that was caught red-handed with

chemical weapons:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1229/p02s01-usju.html

http://www.adl.org/learn/news/extremist_chemical.asp

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/cyanide.sentencing.ap/

He's quite the right-wing nutjob. Odd that he was never really talked about that much by the mainstream media eh?

[struggle4progress]

5. kick for arms control

:kick: nuclear :kick: landmines :kick: nerve gas :kick: