weapons

UN expresses concern about Tasers in NZ Okay, so hopefully we can move on from debating waterboarding, which is quite obviously being utilised as torture, and into an area where I think there actually is room to debate. New Zealand is about to introduce tasers for frontline police officers in...

I'm sure one of our veteran debaters has a name for this type reasoning. I'll call it a false choice. Surrendering, IMHO implies giving up a fight. The purpose of the threats made to Saddam dealt totally with the issue of WMDs. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If the inspections had been...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly one of every 25 weapons the U.S. military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing and many others cannot be repaired because parts or technical manuals are lacking, a government audit said Sunday. The Defense Department cannot account for 14,030 weapons — almost 4%...

Nevermind North Korea and Iran; what if this information makes it into the hands illegal immigrants, Nazi skinheads or the Religious Right? ;) Los Alamos nuke documents thought found in drug raid POSTED: 9:01 p.m. EDT, October 24, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A drug raid on a Los Alamos...

North Korea announces nuclear test (Filed: 03/10/2006) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/03/ukorea.xml Maybe they will just blow themselves up like they did with their last missile test.

Do you get the feeling that someday very soon, you are going to wake up and read the headlines, "Nuclear weapon detonated in the Middle East!". I'm pretty sure that Iran has at least one. Nuclear weapons are not difficult to make. The hardest part of making a nuclear weapon is preventing it...

Now who can resist a comment on that? Let's see if I can remain the only poster.

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.....you should get some basic data DSCA is the Defense Security Cooperation Agency--that's Department of Defense level. 36b Notification means that by Law, when a Foreign Government wants to buy some Major Equipment (or equipment that crosses a certain dollar threshold) it must be notified...

"We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities ... in Iraq" "America's Operation Iraqi Freedom is still producing shock and awe, this time among the blame-America-first crowd. We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside...

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The latest spin on the explosives scandle is that its PROOF that we shouldve invaded cause Saddam does have all these weapons. Was Saddam supposed to be totally without weapons. I dont recall the UN mandating that. I cant imagine any mid eastern country would go without convential weapons. Its...

Lawmakers in Food Fight Over Arms Budget I don't know. $18 billion dollars is a lot of money.

Could some forum member who reads German check Die Welt tomorrow to see if this story is accurate? This 'preview' story is by AFP, supposedly. Does Die Welt actually report this tomorrow? Is Die Welt generally considered reliable? Sounds to me like we neocons have gotten to them. MattJ

Put on your tinfoil hats and tie 'em on tight. The Tehran Times says: U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq. Is this another October surpise in the baking? Stay tuned, but remember: keep it Hush Hush... ;)

Did anyone else catch V.P. Cheany on NPR this morning repeating the claim that the semi trailers found in Iraq were mobile weapons labs? What do supporters of the administration think of this obvious lie? Good thing he was not under oath! Daredelvis

Suspect shells examined in Iraq The shells are undergoing additional tests to make sure, though. They were leaking and were presumably left over from the war against Iran. Still, surely this find will finally silence the anti-war crowd. :rolleyes: :roll: [Damn! I just noticed Mr. Manifesto...

From the recent commentary: "We can build weapons that can obliterate entire cities in an instant, though of course we all hope that such awful forces are never unleashed for destructive purposes again." I would say there definitely are people who hope for this, considering such weapons were...

Lies Half-truths Ignorance Oddly enough, all Huzzisface manages is to get everyone to heap scorn on him. Huzzisface, do you know somebody named Lifegrazer?

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/weapons/ClusterBombs.html Images (warning: graphic) 'A dead little Iraqi girl in Basra with a pile of corpses in background. These are your fellow human beings, literally butchered to death by American pilots who dropped cluster bombs on...

According to an LA Times article I read yesterday, the CIA still holds that the mobile labs buried in the ground could be used to make unconventional weapons. That Saddam would make his labs mobile and that he would bury them makes it seem most likely that they were used for making...

For the physicists here: I'm picturing a sci-fi weapon - it uses a wavelength of light that can pass through skin, but if it uses a focal point beneath the flesh it will concentrate at a point and cause burns. I'm researching for a friend who wants to write a short story using a concept like...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-wmd01.html WASHINGTON--The United States has found evidence of an active program to make weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, including "truly amazing" testimony from Iraqis ordered to dupe UN inspectors before the war, the man leading the hunt said...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=422099

http://www.gbn.org/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=6400 'After two months of unhindered investigations and interrogations in post-Saddam Iraq, the only "evidence" for Iraqi WMD that coalition forces have turned up are the trailers found in northern Iraq that were allegedly mobile germ warfare...

Why didn't Saddam Hussein provide hard evidence that he didn't have chemical weapons? Many people say there is no hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons, yet Saddam was given a chance to prove he didn't and he didn't take that chance.