Chlorine cache found in Iraq

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Weapons of man’s destruction? Couldn’t be, because Islam is the “religion of peace”. Isn’t that right, Ibrahim Hooper? Via Washington Times: U.S. troops sweeping Baghdad have found containers of nitric acid and chlorine, raising concerns that insurgents are expanding their use of chemicals in the war for power in Iraq, military officials said yesterday. The containers were found as part of a larger cache of weapons discovered as U.S. and Iraqi troops cleared house after house in the Sunni-majority Ghazaliyah neighborhood in western Baghdad. In a new twist in the Iraqi conflict, chlorine gas set off by suicide bombers in

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Chlorine Bombs Mark New Insurgent Tactics in Iraq

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From Chlorine Bombs Mark New Insurgent Tactics in Iraq: Two bombs with chlorine gas have killed up to 11 people this week in Iraq, causing toxic fumes that have made scores more sick. Lt.-Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, said U.S. forces had found chlorine cylinders in a car bomb factory near Falluja on Tuesday. Chlorine gas was used as a weapon in World War One.

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The rest of the story

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From Michelle Malkin: And from Michael Yon, another gripping dispatch on what Iraqis are willing to do to save their children. Worth reading and seeing after the steady drumbeat of articles telling you that Iraqis aren’t doing anything to help themselves.

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For the Bush-Lied-People-Died crowd

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Via FrontPage: “Bush-Lied-People-Died” is the rhetorical pot of gold at the end of the left’s argumentative rainbow. But the threshold of proof is so astronomically high–a Bush defender need only show the decision was reasonable, not necessarily correct–that none of Bush’s critics has ever come close to making the case. Put yourself in Bush’s position and consider what you know in late 2002: a) 3000 Americans are dead in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. Also dead is the useful myth that the United States will respond to a direct attack on its soil with a terrible swift sword;

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