azellyn
10-14-2003, 05:40 PM
David Kay said he'd find WMD's in Iraq and then came back empty handed. He then said something about not bng able to find them because the total amount was only enough to fill a "two car garage."
Let's review the pre-war claims shall we?
In Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, we were told Iraq had "upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents" - we're not told what these munitions are, so let's assume they're very, very small - small enough for two to fit inside a paper towel tube. Paper towel tubes are 1 3/4 inches wide, and 5 1/2 inches tall. Thirty-thousand of these would fill an area a little larger than 18 x 18 feet wide and 12 feet high. One could park three Ford Explorers in this area. Maybe Kay misspoke, maybe he meant "three car garage."
Also in his State of the union address, President Bush told us of "25,000 liters of anthrax" and "38,000 liters of botulinum toxin". This is 63,000 liters. Visualize a half gallon of milk in a paper container, the type you typically find in stores. This container is about 9 x 4 x 4 inches and holds two quarts. The Iraqis would need 31,500 of these to store the anthrax and botulinum toxin mentioned in President Bush's speech. These would fit in a 656 square foot garage with 12 foot clings. If this garage was 18 feet deep, it would need to be about 36 1/2 feet wide. This is a garage that would hold six more Ford Explorers.
President Bush also told us Iraq had "materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent." I'm not sure about the materials needed to produce the gasses mentioned, but one can assume they would amount to at l 500 tons. A typical 40 foot semi trailer is built to carry a payload of no more than 30 tons. Dr Kay's garage would also have to hold 16 semi trailers to carry the 500 tons of material President Bush spoke of in his State of the Union address.
Bush revealed that there were "thousands of Iraqi security personnel ... at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors." Two-thousand people qualifies as "thousands." A greyhound bus has a capacity of 55 persons. So we'd need to fit 36 Greyound busses in the garage as well.
So, it seems to me that when Dr. Kay said "two car garage", he misspoke. What he meant was a garage large enough to hold 16 semi-trailers, 36 Greyhound busses and nine Ford Explorers.
References:
www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLIT...ay.report/
www.whitehouse.gov/news/r...28-19.html
google.com/search?q=semi+...+container
www.greyhound.com/company/fleet.shtml
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Let's review the pre-war claims shall we?
In Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, we were told Iraq had "upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents" - we're not told what these munitions are, so let's assume they're very, very small - small enough for two to fit inside a paper towel tube. Paper towel tubes are 1 3/4 inches wide, and 5 1/2 inches tall. Thirty-thousand of these would fill an area a little larger than 18 x 18 feet wide and 12 feet high. One could park three Ford Explorers in this area. Maybe Kay misspoke, maybe he meant "three car garage."
Also in his State of the union address, President Bush told us of "25,000 liters of anthrax" and "38,000 liters of botulinum toxin". This is 63,000 liters. Visualize a half gallon of milk in a paper container, the type you typically find in stores. This container is about 9 x 4 x 4 inches and holds two quarts. The Iraqis would need 31,500 of these to store the anthrax and botulinum toxin mentioned in President Bush's speech. These would fit in a 656 square foot garage with 12 foot clings. If this garage was 18 feet deep, it would need to be about 36 1/2 feet wide. This is a garage that would hold six more Ford Explorers.
President Bush also told us Iraq had "materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent." I'm not sure about the materials needed to produce the gasses mentioned, but one can assume they would amount to at l 500 tons. A typical 40 foot semi trailer is built to carry a payload of no more than 30 tons. Dr Kay's garage would also have to hold 16 semi trailers to carry the 500 tons of material President Bush spoke of in his State of the Union address.
Bush revealed that there were "thousands of Iraqi security personnel ... at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors." Two-thousand people qualifies as "thousands." A greyhound bus has a capacity of 55 persons. So we'd need to fit 36 Greyound busses in the garage as well.
So, it seems to me that when Dr. Kay said "two car garage", he misspoke. What he meant was a garage large enough to hold 16 semi-trailers, 36 Greyhound busses and nine Ford Explorers.
References:
www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLIT...ay.report/
www.whitehouse.gov/news/r...28-19.html
google.com/search?q=semi+...+container
www.greyhound.com/company/fleet.shtml
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