US deminers stunned by size of Iraqi arms hauls

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - A team of 10 US deminers operating in southern and central Iraq (news - web sites) have found enough arms and explosives in two weeks to support a small-scale civil warIn four separate finds, the Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit found 658 Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers, 950 mortars, 414 grenades, 17 machine guns with 584,253 rounds, 103 AK47s with 1,229 rounds, and 2,750 anti-aircraft rounds
We could start a small city revolution with what we've got," said Staff Sergeant Arthur Santoianni.

But he added that while the Iraqis were well armed, it had become obvious that many did not have the will to follow their commanders and had abandoned their weapons
The arms were made in Russia, Egypt, China, the former Yugoslavia, Belgium and Italy. The caches included German gas masks, Turkish supplies of the nerve gas antidote atropine, drums of French solvents and Vietnamese food stocks

had been shipped through Jordan or Turkey. All of the munitions had since been destroyed in six massive controlled explosions. [/B]

Staff Sergeant Michael Clark said. "A cache was also retrieved from an Iraqi sewer -- that was nasty."

wow look at that france, russia, germany. [the axis of weasels]the same ones who are so agansint the war , no wonder they were agansit it ilooks like they got thier hands caught in the cookie jar,oh ya cant forget Italy and Belgium
and oh how iraq hides thier supplys, now do you think if they hide basic arms they whoudnt hide womd? if you think they whouldnt you are serioulsly wrong
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...l_mideast_afp/iraq_war_mines_030406062412&e=2
 

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wow, that's so shocking...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2536795,00.html

According to MSNBC, the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines south of Baghdad made an extraordinary discovery - 120 bunkers full of ammunition from Russia, Jordan, Egypt and the United States, evidently from when America backed Iraq in its war with Iran in the 1980s. The huge cache is being tested for biological and chemical agents.

read: Matthew 7:1-5
 
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This war is about our national interests, which is precisely what our sending arms to Iraq twenty-five years ago was all about as well. So what? Every country in the world acts in its own best interests.

Twenty-five years ago, the USSR was a threat, real or perceived, to the security of the United States, and Iraq was seen as an ally to contain them. So naturally we armed the Iraqis.

Now the situation is different and Iraq has become one of the threats to us, so the time has come for us to disarm them, regardless of who supplied the weapons they have. It's a case of, "Sure, we'll arm you if it helps both us and you---but if you turn on us, all bets are off, buster. This is about us, not you."

That doesn't surprise me in the least. There isn't any hypocrisy here on the part of the United States. We are looking out for our own interests and our own national security. Only the enemies have changed as the global geopolitics have shifted in the wake of the Cold War.

*shrug* It's the real world, baby. Deal with it.
 
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Hmm? Sure, it’s no secret; they had US weapons even back during desert storm as well, I recall. In fact, I say let the post war Iraq keep the stuff with the same policies we are using in Afghanistan. Why soften up a post-war Iraq for invasion by another country? Weapons aren’t evil; it’s the goof who uses it for ill reasons that we need to take care of.

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Today at 01:19 PM Wolseley said this in Post #5

This war is about our national interests, 

This war is about liberating the Iraqi people. It is about helping someone without being selfish and expecting to get something in return. At least not something in this life.

Of course we can afford to liberate the Iraqi people, because they have oil and can pay some of our expenses. It is a little bit more difficult to go to a dirt poor country in Africa, because they have no way to help defray some of our expanses.

The people never saw that oil money anyways, it mostly went into Saddam pocket so he could afford to hire people to oppress them.
 
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Today at 12:13 PM JohnR7 said this in Post #7



This war is about liberating the Iraqi people. It is about helping someone without being selfish and expecting to get something in return. At least not something in this life.

Of course we can afford to liberate the Iraqi people, because they have oil and can pay some of our expenses. It is a little bit more difficult to go to a dirt poor country in Africa, because they have no way to help defray some of our expanses.

The people never saw that oil money anyways, it mostly went into Saddam pocket so he could afford to hire people to oppress them.

 

Actually Africa has a great untapped wealth of gems but the country is too devastated to extract them. But I don’t think we are about to militarily invade countries unless there is hard pressing viable concerns in relation to our national security.

 I totally agree with your point and also point out the major fear factor; being the support of terrorist organizations by the Iraqi regime. We just have a multitude of reasons to justify our recent actions concerning Iraq.

Peace

 
 
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