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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer
Leo,
I can see what you are saying. But didn't they find degraded weapons last year as well?
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There was a report of two found, if I recall. At that time, the response was "Big deal! Two?". The response now is "Big deal! They were highly degraded!".
I could see that perhaps two chem weapons could be mixed in with stashes of conventional weapons accidentally. However, with 500 or so, an oversight is not likely. Rather, it would seem that a specific strategy was in place that should Saddam choose to use them, there was a much larger opportunity for impact with them located in several different places and therefore available to scattered troops. Having them in one or two places would limit their effectiveness and if those one or two sites were captured, they would be unavailable for use.