Wondering what type of chem weapons were found in Iraq, during the invasion?

nerve gases (VX, tabun, sarin) and yperite.

opposite to what the "war for oil" conspiratists claim, there WERE chemical weapons and chemical weapons residua found there.

We know that we did not find massive stockpiles of WMD but enough was been found to be a concern. To say that "none" has been found is blatantly false:

* On June 23, 2004, U.S. forces seized 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium at a nuclear facility in Iraq. This is the type of fuel that can be used to make nuclear weapons. It was also reported by the BBC (a frequent critic of the war) that the U.S. Department of Energy removed over a thousand "powdered" radioactive sources. These could be used to make a very effective dirty bomb.

* Polish troops in Iraq, upon receiving intelligence that insurgents in their sector were buying WMD, bought 17 chemical weapon warheads for $5,000 each from Iraqis to keep them from the insurgents. Tests confirmed that these warheads contained cyclosarin which is five to 10 times more effective (read deadly) than the sarin used on the Tokyo subway attack. Also, all munitions containing cyclosarin were reported destroyed by U.N. enforcers between 1991 and 1998. Apparently not.

* On Aug. 8, 2005, U.S. soldiers raided a warehouse in Mosul, Iraq, and found 1,500 gallons of chemical agents.

* On May 17, 2004, a U.S. convoy was attacked by a roadside bomb that was found to be an improvised device made from an artillery shell containing the nerve agent sarin.

* A similar device was found the same month that contained the blister agent mustard gas.

I could go on but all of this and the UNSCOM (U.N. inspectors of the '90s) reports that could not account for some 6,500 chemical munitions and tons of biological growth media and anthrax cultures as well as evidence that Iraq was making fresh chemical munitions as late as 1998 leaves me flabbergasted at the continued myth that Iraq "had no weapons of mass destruction."

I guess the question we should ask ourselves is how much WMD is enough? Does the cost of finding them outweigh the benefits? How much of a particular agent constitutes a WMD? A cup of VX? A gallon of sarin? How about 1,500 gallons of mustard gas?

I can tell you this, if a police officer stumbled across a cup of VX in a car in downtown Chicago (for example), that alone, most probably, would elicit a federal response the likes of which this city has never seen. Why?

A single cup of the nerve agent VX contains about 25,000 lethal doses of that agent. Granted that is if it is used in its entirety and in perfect conditions, but hopefully you get the picture. Hopefully you get two things out of my post:

1. Iraq had WMD.

2. In the wrong hands, they can pose a very significant and deadly threat in even small amounts.

155mm artillery projectiles, 122mm rockets, missile warheads and a variety of aerial bombs filled with chemical warfare agents. Mustard gas, tabun and sarin nerve agents.

Give the skunk 10 points...... Well said & backed up Facts.

Not very bright with your question subject matter are you kid.

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There weren't any, genius.

None.