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Originally Posted by jman1310
just for my own information:
what's the difference between a pesticide plant and a nerve gas plant?
concentration?
how many pesticide plants in Iraq? how long to change a nerve gas plant back into a pesticide plant? hour?
ten minutes and a can of paint!
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One for pH I suspect, but I think it's probably of the order of weeks or months to convert between the two. Haven't read up on it much, but the bits I do remember suggest that containment and corrosion resistance are far bigger problems with Nerve gas than pesticide. Feedstock is another issue as well - just because they have the plant doesn't mean they can make anything with it.
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Originally Posted by jman1310
so does nerve gas count as a wmd? because we found lots of pesticide.
just because we didn't find a SCUD missile with a big sign on it saying "NERVE TOXIN" doesn't mean that it couldn't be used that way
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True, but pesticide is pretty inefficient as a chemical weapon - your targets might die of cancer in 20 years time, but that's no good for stopping an invading army...
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Originally Posted by jman1310
Saddam buried his air force to avoid its distruction
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Unfortunately, it didn't get done right and the air force is now good for scrap only...
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Originally Posted by jman1310
unfortunately for saddam, Bush is not a democrat, he's a Republican, which means he knowns how to prosecute a war (historically, since WWII all wars by democrats have been lost or stalemates (and only stalemates because a Republican was voted in) and most Republican wars have been won.)
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Uhh... Kosovo? Doesn't work in other countries anyway - see Sierra Leone, Iraq 2 and Malaya for details. In fact, you could argue the reverse is true for the UK - Suez?