WMD In Uzbekistan

[Questioninggeller]

quote="washington post"]
Nerve Agents Found at Base In Uzbekistan

By Lee Keath

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, June 9 -- Investigators found traces of nerve agents and mustard gas at a U.S. base in Uzbekistan and are investigating whether any of the thousands of troops who have passed through were exposed, U.S. military officials said today.

The contamination at Khanabad air base, near the city of Karshi, was thought to be from chemical weapons stored there by the former Soviet Union, said Col. Roger King. No U.S. soldiers have reported symptoms of exposure, he told reporters at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...node=&contentId=A22653-2002Jun9&notFound=true
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Interesting? Nothing like what happened with Iraq, and the U.S. invaded. Why not attack the people haboring the terrorists there?

Here's why

The US-Uzbekistan trade-off

By the BBC's Monica Whitlock
The visit of United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Uzbekistan is being watched carefully, not only in Uzbekistan, but throughout central Asia.

Uzbekistan is the one country on Mr Rumsfeld's current diplomatic tour that shares a frontier with Afghanistan, widely believed to be where Osama Bin Laden lives.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1581239.stm

I guess your allowed to expose nerve gas to U.S. troops if you don't have oil and are consider an part of the allies, not part of the "axis of evil."

 

[corplinx]

Uzbekistan of course is a different geopolitical situation than either Afghan and Iraq were. Believe it or not, these countries are not identical.

 

[Gem]

It all has to do with marketing and PR.

"US invades Iraq" or "US invades Uzbekistan"
The first one can be sold better.

Btw, remember when Rummy was shaking hands with Iraq's leader, and now probably doing the same thing in Uzbekistan? Oh the irony!

Gem

 

[Gem]

Uzbekistan of course is a different geopolitical situation than either Afghan and Iraq were. Believe it or not, these countries are not identical.

You're right, Afganistan required Pakistan in order to attack. To attack Uz country you would need both, or go through russia, it would be pretty complicated.

Gem