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War Story

  • Mar. 19th, 2013 at 9:19 PM
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For the 10th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom:

A month or so into the shooting war, I heard an NPR broadcast in which a breathless reporter in Iraq announced that a warehouse full of Scud missiles with what could only be atomic warheads for them stored offsite. Teams were on their way to secure the site and certify the weapons. I was rather downcast -- I'd begun to expect nothing would be found. I listened on and off through the day for the followup. Nothing, No mention of the Scuds or the warheads ever came again.

Anyone else remember that?

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nightspore
Mar. 20th, 2013 02:13 am (UTC)
No, but it sure sounds like the garbage Judith Miller was reporting in the Times.
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nihilistic_kid
Mar. 20th, 2013 06:03 am (UTC)
I don't, but I do remember a large number of reports of chem weapons found. They were all the results of false positives from field equipment—better a false positive than a missed positive, after all. The secondary testing with less sensitive, more accurate, measurements, turned up pretty much nothing, of course.
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negothick
Mar. 20th, 2013 03:00 pm (UTC)
You've been hacked again. You must have said one of the trigger words. Or you're revealing state secrets.
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crowleycrow
Mar. 20th, 2013 03:54 pm (UTC)
Got that bugger. He'll be back.
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al_zorra
Mar. 20th, 2013 06:05 pm (UTC)
I remember lots of things like that.

Why aren't all those responsible in prison and why are these sorry excuses for journalists still allowed to spew their idiocies everyday?

I will NOT accept the "We were all as traumatized as everyone else by 9/11" as any justification. I was traumatized by 9/11. I live right here. But I knew it was all bs. And so did everyone else I know.

Criminals and sinners every single one of them.


Love, C.
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(Anonymous)
Mar. 22nd, 2013 07:34 pm (UTC)
Your spammer is almost poetic - I really want to see the snowboarding hunters of Henry VIII.
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crowleycrow
Mar. 22nd, 2013 07:53 pm (UTC)
OH Lord! They've multiplied horribly here. Yes, they are amusing for a moment -- some of them -- and the bizarre paradox of merchants believing that this is going to cause the recipient to go to them and buy shoes or whatever is fun to contemplate -- once! -- but then it's like the cute rabbits of Australia. YOU WON'T SEE THESE AGAIN!
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