So far, we've put up with all the crazy striking here in Norway. But now the trade unions have really crossed the line as brewery employees start striking. With the usual hoarding in this country, we will run out of beer in a few days.
If the UN was transparent as they claimed (and should be!), why does audits have to be leaked to be seen? I am just asking rhetorical questions here, mind you.
Via InstaPundit, an argument that the 155mm chemical artillery shell is not old, leftover ammunition from the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraq did not have such binary shells at the time. These were never declared to UNSCOM, and of a much higher quality than the binary munitions the weapons inspectors knew about.
Interesting.
PS:Tests have confirmed that the chemical in the exploded shell was indeed sarin. At the same time, news about a second chemical shell discovered just a few weeks earlier:
Another shell filled with mustard gas, possibly also part of an improvised explosive device (IED) was discovered on May 2, Defense Dept. officials said.
The second shell was found by passing soldiers in a median on a thoroughfare west of Baghdad. It probably was simply left there by someone, officials said, and it was unclear whether it was meant to be used as a bomb.
Anything else we didn't hear about? The sarin shell was supposed to be the first actual chemical weapon found in Iraq, but obviously that was not true. Finds of two totally different types of CW shells in a couple of weeks makes it extremely unlikely to be the only ones out there.
PS 2: Oddly, the find of the sarin shell caused the dollar to rise against the euro and yen Monday. Obviously, the markets took it as a vindication of the reasons given for the war.
John Kerry, who voted for authorizing military action in Iraq, has according to Times of India (and strangely missing elsewhere) made another statement that begs for nuance:
US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Saturday the United States should never fight wars of choice - only those of necessity - in an implicit repudiation of President George W. Bush's military campaign in Iraq.
