What are we doing in Iraq?

**Shek** · 16 Sep 06,, 17:50

Originally Posted by Swift Sword

If we take the official definition at face value and use a historically valid classification of incindeiary weapons as chemical weapons, it could be argued that the two flying fire bombs al-Qaeda deployed against NYC were WMD.

Swift Sword,

Incendiary weapons are not chemical weapons. This is why incendiary weapons are their own separate classification of weapons.

However, it is definitely true that it was the incendiary effect of the jet fuel that caused the WTC towers to collapse - the high temperatures of the fire caused by the burning fuel is what weakened the steel trusses and caused the collapse of the concrete floors that ended in the pancaking collapse of the towers.

**Shek** · 16 Sep 06,, 17:56

Originally Posted by Swift Sword

A fourth attack could be unfolding before our very eyes given what I see on the front page of this morning's paper. Who knows? Time will tell as it does in all things.

Makes me glad that our local grocery stores can't seem to stock fresh produce. It's prevented us from buying our standard spinach leaves for dinner salads.

**Confed999** · 16 Sep 06,, 19:07

Originally Posted by Swift Sword

Two cases of bio terror attacks on the United States were presented: one by a foreign power and one by the adherents of an alien ideology. Though these instances were quite well documented, you chose to brush them aside as "irrelevant".

One failed, and the other was some dust in envelopes. Sorry, no "mass destruction" from either of those.

Originally Posted by Swift Sword

Now you could be dishonest and attempt to redefine WMD for purposes of your argument as not including bioglogical agents but you would look kind of silly since in many official U.S. documents "weapons of mass destruction" are construed to be "nuclear, chemical and biological weapons".

You were talking about a nuke, and so was I. Read back...

Originally Posted by Swift Sword

A fourth attack could be unfolding before our very eyes given what I see on the front page of this morning's paper. Who knows? Time will tell as it does in all things.

A billion attacks could be unfolding, but that doesn't change the past...

Originally Posted by Swift Sword

Suit yourself with textbook models based on limited sample pools. My first hand observations below the waterline of American society lead me to different conclusions.

Sorry guy, putting a nuke in a truck full of cocaine will increase the chances of getting busted. There are more ways to detect it, and there will be more people involved. If that doesn't increase the chances, nothing does. If you read back, that's all I said...