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What
DeLay Left Out of His "Iraq by the Numbers"
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BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Albert
Clark House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay put out the following press release on
10/16:
Iraq
By the Numbers
Here
is what was known about Iraq based on its own admissions:
3.9 -- Number of tons of VX nerve gas Iraq produced in the years
immediately
prior to the first Gulf War
25 -- Number of missile warheads containing germ agents (anthrax,
aflatoxin,
and botulinum) Iraq produced
157 -- Number of aerial bombs Iraq produced that were filled with
germ
agents
500 -- Number of bombs Iraq had fitted with parachutes for the
purpose of
delivering poison gas or germ payloads
550 -- Number of artillery shells Iraq had filled with mustard gas
805 -- Number of tons of ingredients for the production of more VX
4,000 -- Number of tons of ingredients to produce certain types of
poison
gas Saddam produced or imported
8,500 -- Number of liters of anthrax Saddam produced
107,500 -- Number of casings for chemical weapons Iraq had produced
or
imported
(Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Weekly Standard, October 10, 2003)
0
-- Number of Americans made safer by Ted Kennedy and the Democrats'
weak
and indecisive foreign policy
9 -- Number of presidential candidates who will pathetically
claim DeLay
is
questioning their patriotism
However,
this is what DeLay left out:
0
-- number of WMDs Iraq claimed it had after destroying its stockpiles
0 -- Number of WMDs discovered by UN inspectors
0 -- tons of VX nerve gas discovered
0 -- number of bombs fills with germ agents discovered
0 -- number of missiles filled with poison gas discovered
0 -- number of artillery shells filled with mustard gas discovered
0 -- number of tons of VX ingredients discovered
0 -- number of liters of Anthrax discovered
0 -- number of Bush's prewar claims proven true
0 -- number of Americans made safer by invading Iraq
("war in Iraq
has probably inflamed radical passions among Muslims and
thus
increased al Qaeda's recruiting power and morale..." International
Institute
for Strategic Studies, Annual Report)
Albert
Clark, NY A
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