BBC have just said that the weapons inspectors have found 15 Chemical warheads (empty but newly made and ready to go) and 1 warhead that is as yet unidentified.

....in Iraq.

Uh... And Yahoo is saying that the warheads are of an 1980 design...

Makes the news even more believable

Well, why not? I'd say it's the same warheads they bought in the early 80s in Germany, and dismantled before they let the inspectors in. Nothing to be excited about .

Could be, but it doesn't quite go along with

Oooh Oooh! Warheads! What would you expect to find? Dumb media hype, I hate it.

I hate you media.

Die.

Mr Creosote: Simply, one of the news is wrong. It's either-or, but not both. For the sake of Iraq, I'm assuming that the 1980s version is correct .

Well, they were bound to find something, weren't they? That's their job, that's what they're there for. Also, like Tuss said, what would you expect to find? This is Iraq, a middle-eastern military dictatorship, not bloody Disney World!

Edited by Dizzy at 20:56 on January, 16th 2003

Thinking about it, it could be newly made 'warheads', but based on a 1980 design - that would link these two versions

hehe, then the Iraqis hit the (unarmed) warhead casings with hammers to make dents in them, and tell them that they are old.

This is all America need, anything that they can manipulate into looking like Iraq are bad. and besides that saying they are chemical warheads is speculation until Hans and co have finished annalysing the warheads.

They found another 4 warheads.

Anyway, this is the issue that I think is more important: Libya got elected to lead the UN human rights commission. European countries didn't vote against Libya. I'm getting the impression that the US is becoming one big joke...

Becoming? They'e been a joke since Bush began!

Shit! That was unintended.... I meant to say that the UN was a big jike...

The UN is a joke, of course the US have CIA agents amongst the weapons inspectors do you really think they would pass up that oppertunity.
America won't wait for UN approval to attack soon they will decide oh well we're just going to attack. John Howard being Bush's lap dog like he is will send Australian SAS soilders in without asking us the Australian people and then Blair will join in the fun as well. So much for democracy's

Argh, no $%@#$!!! Somewhere the system is fundementally flawed.

And why not? The UN Security Council will vote in favour of this war, so why shouldn't they wait another few days until this happens?

France declared it will veto any military action against Iraq in the Security Council. Do you want to tell me, Mr Creosote, that France is unable to keep its promises?

That promise is new to me, but then again, the German government (Germany is a member of the council at the moment, too) also promised to vote against it some time ago and now they always 'refuse to comment' on that question - talking about honesty.