Degraded Sarin and other claims by the liberal instant WMD experts

yesterday, I saw this claim all over the internet.

"this sarin was only good for a few weeks, in fact they destroyed it because it was no good."

Okay, they are correct, but misleading. The reason this sarin they reference was bad was because it was essentially a bad batch. And yes it was destroyed. So if it was destroyed, why was it sitting somewhere for us to find? Because it was not from the bad batch. And despite liberal misleading quotes from a valid CIA report, not all sarin, and not all of Iraq's sarin had a short shelf life.

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STABILITY OF IRAQ'S CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILE
IRAQ HAS A SIZEABLE CW STOCKPILE, AT LEAST SOME OF WHICH CAN SURVIVE
SEVERAL YEARS OF STORAGE.
IRAQ'S MUSTARD, THE CW AGENT MOST USED IN THE WAR WITH IRAN, IS
QUITE STABLE; MUCH OF IT SHOULD REMAIN EFFECTIVE FOR SOME TIME.
THE UNITARY FORM OF IRAQ'S SARIN - ITS PRINCIPAL NERVE AGENT - HAD
A RELATIVELY SHORT SHELF LIFE DURING THE WAR WITH IRAN.
THE IRAQIS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROBLEM:
THEY HAVE TRIED TO INCREASE UNITARY SARIN SHELF LIFE BY IMPROVING
THE PURITY OF THE PRECURSOR CHEMICALS AND REFINING PRODUCTION
PROCESSES.
THEY HAVE DEVELOPED AND TESTED BINARY NERVE AGENT ROUNDS FOR
ARTILLERY SHELLS AND BINARY MISSILE WARHEADS AS WELL.
CIA BELIEVES THAT BY NOW IRAQ HAS EITHER INCREASED THE SHELF LIFE OF
UNITARY SARIN OR PRODUCED LARGE QUANTITIES OF BINARY MUNITIONS.
PROBLEMS WITH SHELF LIFE

So the Iraqis had binary rounds in production. If these are binary artillery munitions, they would be effective for a long time.

BTW, "degraded"  is a word being thrown around with authority by liberals who are born again WMD experts (of which I do not claim to be either, but I am not twisting buzz words and I am providing you with information that is sourced).

Degraded can mean anything. It could mean it is now 98% effective, 50% effective or not at all. But let's be real here, this stuff is not turning into wine. It is still a chemical weapon and will still always be dangerous.

Comments

[Mark Eichenlaub]

But Ray, MSNBC managed to dig up one unnamed source who said the report isn't true. Doesn't that source have more credibility than the physical proof, official report and word of Rumsfeld, UN Inspector Tim Trevan and General Tom McInerny? Shouldn't we just believe the unnamed sources, who surely have no political agenda, and just go along with conventional wisdom?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13480264/

[Sam Pender]

link to pics of sarin found in Iraq AFTER ISG report was done...
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState%7c0%7c0%7c-1%7c28%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c1%7c%7c%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c7%7c%7csarin+%2b+iraq%7c2233391784121335%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0&p=7&tag=1

[Sam Pender]

Sorry, sarin TEST KIT found in Fallujah after ISG rpt-not Sarin. Test kit was found in Fallujah, by USMC with a mortar, map, and unspecified rounds