WMD Right under their nose

CJ and Cpl M over at A Soldier’s Perspective have been writing on WMD mentioned within the media and any of the Iraq dispatches or news sources for some time now and today they posted yet another reference on their site, their list just keeps growing while no one bothers to write anything of their findings.

An intelligent media, (wow, that was a contradiction if I have ever written one), would have previously been salivating over finding any WMD in Iraq, even a chemical reference, some small device capable of killing a few hundred people would have had them tearing down doors to get to the news source, yet military sources have found new chemical WMD adding them to the original 500 chemical munitions they found would be quite a substantial killing payload and no one is saying a word.

I was attempting to rationalize this and while reading through the comment linked by ASP, I saw the following paragraph which answered my question, “Responding to questions from lawmakers anxious to make political points ahead of the November congressional elections, U.S. defense officials said the 500 chemical weapons discovered in Iraq were "weapons of mass destruction." However their degraded state may make them more dangerous to those who find them than anyone else.” The media was informed that these were old, antiquated WMD, perhaps left over from the Iraq, Iran war due to their decomposition and state and worse yet in capital letters was this statement, LITTLE THRET TO THE U.S.

Well, there is the culprit, the media want fresh, sweat glistening off the nose cone, brand new WMD, better yet, they don’t want chemical, they want Nuclear, that’s it, something capable of wiping out the entire eastern sea front, that would really make them happy. It would make them giddy if we had evidence that the WMD were in the hands of Al Qaeda and we did not know their whereabouts, that would be a real coup for a reporter, how happy they would be.

The media has no idea what chemical weapons can do when they are released over a population the size of one of our major cities, they simply have no clue what so ever the damage and devastation it could do if they were in the wrong hands. Perhaps they should ask the families of the Kurds that Saddam had gassed during his little incursion into his own country, I am sure they could explain without any fanfare just what they can do to a population.