The Observation Deck

100,000's of munitions


except that you couldn't back this assertion up either.)

8. Iraq declared overall holdings of more than 200,000 unfilled and filled special munitions (those produced and procured for CW and BW purposes) during the entire period of the implementation of its CW programme. For the purpose of the verification of the material balance of special munitions, the Commission simultaneously attempts to account for both chemical and biological munitions, given the fact that some types of weapons originally designed for CW purposes were later filled or planned to be filled with BW agents. Special munitions include aerial bombs, artillery shells, rockets for multiple launching systems and missile warheads. According to Iraq, of the declared total holdings of more than 200,000 special munitions, about 100,000 munitions filled with CW agents were consumed or disposed of by Iraq in the period 1982 -1988.

10. With respect to the munitions which existed as of January 1991, Iraq declared 127,941 filled and unfilled special munitions. These munitions have been declared by Iraq and accounted for by the Commission as follows:

a) 56,281 munitions [22,263 filled munitions and 34,018 unfilled munitions] declared by Iraq as having remained after the 1991 Gulf war:

40,048 munitions were destroyed under UNSCOM supervision [these comprised 21,825 filled munitions and 18,223 unfilled munitions],
16,263 munitions were not destroyed, but nevertheless accounted for by UNSCOM. These include 15,616 unfilled munitions which were converted by Iraq for conventional weapons purposes in 1993-1994. These also include 438 filled munitions destroyed, according to Iraq, during a fire accident.
The numerical discrepancy of several hundred munitions in the overall accounting can be attributed to minor deviations in the physical counting of large piles of weapons.

b) 41,998 munitions [5,498 filled munitions and 36,500 unfilled munitions] declared by Iraq as having been destroyed during the 1991 Gulf war:

The Commission has accepted the destruction of about 34,000 munitions on the basis of multiple sources, including physical evidence, documents provided by Iraq etc. However, it has not been possible to achieve a numerical accounting of destroyed munitions due to heavy bomb damage of the CW storage facilities, where these munitions had been stored during the Gulf war,
the destruction of about 2,000 unfilled munitions remain uncertain,
550 filled munitions remain unaccounted for.
c) 29,662 munitions [854 filled munitions and 28,808 unfilled munitions] declared by Iraq as having been destroyed unilaterally:

the destruction of about 13,660 munitions, both filled and unfilled, has been accepted by the Commission on the basis of multiple sources, including physical evidence, documents provided by Iraq etc. However, it has not been possible to make a numerical accounting of these munitions due to destruction method used by Iraq (demolition),
the accounting for 15,900 unfilled munitions which, according to Iraq, had been melted, has not been possible,
about 100 munitions filled, according to Iraq, with BW agents remain unaccounted for.
11. The material balance of 127,941 unfilled and filled special munitions declared by Iraq remaining as of January 1991 is provided in table l.

As you continue to carry water for Cheney Inc., let me remind you that you have not presented on the Deck a single piece of credible evidence about WMD in Iraq in late 2002 and 2003.

Between weapon inspectors getting the run around by Iraq and the lack of evidence that Saddam destroyed all of his WMD's. It was a good call by Bush.

The UN was unable to verify that Saddam had destroyed his WMDs during their inspections

WMD's were discoverd in Iraq and the US media blacked the story out. UN Resolution 1441 also confirms that WMD's existed in Iraq.

I have backed up the assertion that Saddam possessed WMD'S.

But, unlike a flying pig, WMD's existed in Iraq.

There is the probability that the unaccounted for WMD's ended up outside of Iraq pre-invasion

Yes, no and maybe are all possible answers to the question that WMD's still exist in Iraq or were moved from Iraq.

It does not take a leap of faith to believe that some of those CWs were still around in 2003 and then shipped out of Iraq right before the US lead invasion.

What would UNSCOM know?

If any of the missing WMD's are ever used agianst the US or Israel then there will be blood on the hands of the media and the Dems..

I was lol'ing because someone was ignoring the most important fact about the WMD issue in Iraq. Missing Weapons! (not a lot of weapons but just enough to scare me)

Fact: Over 500 weapon munitions which contained Sarin or mustard gas were discovered in Iraq by Coalition Forces in 2003.

100,000's of munitions ... And with out a doubt, you believe that each and every munition has been accounted for and destroyed

. I do not believe that Saddam disclosed his entire WMD inventory to the world nor that 1,000 inspectors could find a needle in haystack.