It's a Gas - For

It's a Gas - For the past day or so, the left's latest intellectual rear-guard action has been "See! No Weapons of Mass Destruction!"

The anti-Bush left's intellectual rear-guard is folding up like the Republican Guard these days; the 101st Airborne seems to have discovered Sarin and Tabun gases at a compound southwest of the Bagh:

The evacuation of dozens of soldiers Sunday night followed a day of tests for the nerve agent that came back positive, then negative. Additional tests Sunday night by an Army Fox mobile nuclear, biological and chemical detection laboratory confirmed the existence of sarin.

Sgt. Todd Ruggles, a biochemical expert attached to the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne said, "I was right" that chemical agents Iraq has denied having were present.

In addition to the soldiers sent for decontamination, a Knight Ridder reporter, a CNN cameraman and two Iraqi prisoners of war also were hosed down with water and bleach.

U.S. soldiers found the suspect chemicals at two sites: an agricultural warehouse containing 55-gallon chemical drums and a military compound, which soldiers had begun searching Saturday.

Growing up in North Dakota, I saw lots and lots of legitimate agricultural chemicals. Some of them are even from the same chemical family as Sarin and Tabun.

But - ! - there's more!

The soldiers also found hundreds of gas masks and chemical suits at the military complex, along with large numbers of mortar and artillery rounds.

You find farmers trying the damnedest things to apply pesticides, but mortar and artillery rounds usually didn't top the list.

Pack it up, left. It's over.

Posted by Mitch at April 7, 2003 05:42 PM