Chlorine attack kills 27.
By on Apr 6th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Chlorine attack kills 27.
“A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.”
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No chemical weapons in Iraq, move on, nothing to see here.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:35 amWe will just add those 27 to Chimps account.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:36 amNot a Civil war, though?? As the “surge” progresses, so will the dead measure commensurately.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:36 amThe media is to blame for our unwillingness to urge a surge. If they hadn’t try to make a fool out of the president with the Baker-Hamiliton Report (It’s Daddy’s friends to the rescue), then maybe the president would have followed their advice!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:36 amSad news, but pertinent to our own safety.
Trains carrying Chlorine gas pass through American towns & cities everyday.
Does your local community have a Chlorine / toxic gas disaster readiness plan?
If so, do you know the protocol for dealing with such an event?
I know this isn’t political, but it’s very important. Not long ago a train derailed spilling chlorine gas in Minot, ND. Clear Channel had bought all the radio stations, which were on ‘automatic pilot’ late at night to save the corporation some money. Trouble is, emergency broadcasts on the local level never happened. Many people didn’t know what to do, & suffered severe health consequences.
Guess what? The railroad has fought tooth & nail against the lawsuit, denying any culpability. The Federal Appeals court has sided with the railroad.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:40 amSo…never expect anyone but yourself to be prepared for disaster.
Right or wrong, corporate will always take the least expensive route.
Things are improving in Iraq, Mission Accomplished, Last Throes, move on, nothing to see here.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:42 amPAtty:
How come you won’t reply, how’s that dick kissing going?
April 6th, 2007 at 11:45 amMaybe John McCain should head back over to show us how safe it is.
:|
April 6th, 2007 at 11:46 ammake a fool out of the president…
Comment by Real RedNeck
Please,don’t get us started.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:46 amAre you suggesting that he wasn’t already an idiotic fool?
Breaking: 1600 gallons of chlorine stolen for Florida pool supply company.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am#! Patrick,
Yea, chlorine is such a WMD we use it in our swimming pools and to bleach our clothes. It is about as common as the materials Timothy McVea used in OKC.
Did you get the Chlorine-as-WMD as a Rover/Limpball Talking Point or did you just make that up yourself?
April 6th, 2007 at 11:49 amGet the US out of Iraq. NOW!
We’ve done enough damage to last several lifetimes. BushCo turned Iraq into a vast training ground for future US haters. S**t!
Oh, and to you ReichWingNut apologists who LOVE this occupation: got Osama?
April 6th, 2007 at 11:49 am1. Partick
You do know that the chlorine is there for water treatment right.
No I guess you wouldnt know that… or anything else. STFU already
April 6th, 2007 at 11:49 amI love it!
All the ultra-radical right-winger neo-con regressives are now going to claim that using a chlorine tank as part of an IED suddenly means that iraq has chemical weapons!
Look out! Every pulic pool in the US harbors chemical weapons!
This is just too good for color TV! Come on, all you ultra-radical right-winger neo-con regressives, lets hear how an IED suddenly means WMD and Chemical Weapons over night!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:51 am“No chemical weapons in Iraq, move on, nothing to see here.
Comment by Patrick1″
if that’s what you believe, then i got news for you: every country has them.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:52 amPatrick can’t claim #1 on this story:
Meanwhile, back at the surge:
BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.
Comment by Briseadh_na_faire — April 6, 2007 @ 9:18 am
April 6th, 2007 at 11:53 amI can’t believe anyone would reply to patty’s idiocy.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:53 amIs Chimpy staying in Ramadi for Easter? Hope so.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:53 amThis proves that the surge is working. Since part of the attack was chlorine it doesn’t count as one of those bomb-a-day thingys.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:56 amCan anybody guess what 1,600 gallons of liquid chlorine can do when mixed with an equal amount of liquid ammonia?
If we really had a problem with terrorists in America, we would have found out by now.
Bush will veto the war spending bill because it includes ammounts to fund the recommendations of the 9/11 commission.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:58 am#17 He is such an easy target…. kinda like Darth’s comment today (AFTER one of his own guys, Feith said it wasn’t true) about the ties between al-Queda and Sadam before we got there.
All these NeoCon Chickenhawks are so full of BS, they are turning brown and mooing!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:59 amChlorine gas has been used as a weapon since WWI. Iraq and Iran both used it against each other in their 9 year war back in the 1980’s.
Nasty stuff….I causes a very painful death.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:59 amRingo, from the article, I think that was Sodium hypochlorite, not Chlorine gas.
Regardless, this is a horrible event. How “secure” can Iraq be if they can’t secure things like Chlorine gas?
April 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pmAt first I was worried about #10s ‘breaking story’, and then I saw who wrote it:
Chlorine taken from pool-supply company
By Will Brown
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
It’s obvious a April’s fool day joke.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pmMore proof that right-wingers only spew talking points.
The media is to blame for our unwillingness to urge a surge. If they hadn’t try to make a fool out of the president with the Baker-Hamiliton Report (It’s Daddy’s friends to the rescue), then maybe the president would have followed their advice!
Comment by Real RedNeck
So let me get this straight…….It’s the media’s fault for the skepticism regarding Bush’s escalation. It’s the media’s fault that the B-H report suggested diplomacy and redeployment over incresed troops, (they specifically addressed that point by the way) and it’s the media’s fault that Bush ignored the report entirely while simultaneously suggesting that he was open to following the recommendations of it before it was released.
Your flawed logic is undeniable.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:01 pmI hope they aren’t mixing the coloreds with the whites.
-GSD
April 6th, 2007 at 12:03 pmI wonder why the RiechWingNutballs and ChristoFascistTerrorists LOVE the idea of a chlorine IED but HATE the talking about the ones made from ammonia and farm fertilizer?
Could it be that the deadly WMD made from common farming materials are the preferred method of ChristianTerrorists? I’m sure they don’t want to give away too many secrets here.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:04 pmoh my God, and I’ve been swimming in chlorinated pools all this time!
April 6th, 2007 at 12:08 pmWait a second, I’ve been using a WMD to clean the tighty whiteys.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:10 pmDon’t stay in to long, your hair will turn green…..
April 6th, 2007 at 12:11 pmif there’s chlorine gas in Iraq now (I understand they’ve already determined it was something else), that doesn’t mean it was there in 2003… where’s it been sitting for four years? no doubt it would have slipped through the unprotected borders, the same one insurgents are crossing daily, in the time since… it’s not an exactly under-control situation over there…
April 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pmPete, if you mix chlorine bleach and Comet, you get chlorine gas. That’s why they warn you on the labels not to do that. Perhaps you don’t do the cleaning around your house? Or you don’t read the labels? I suggest you do, it could save your life.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pmSo they didn’t have to import the gas! Anyone can make it out of two ingredients.
Nice try on the “insecure borders” meme. But not applicable here.
Faire > do NOT mix liquid Clorine with pool acid. It makes deadly phosgene gas that causes burning of the lungs, eyes, and skin.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:14 pmWill the US be struck with toxic bombs? Oh, then the “link” between Iraqi insurgents and a US domestic terrorist attack will be made. Of course, then we’ll have to institute martial law. For our own safety of course.
April 6th, 2007 at 3:59 pm“No chemical weapons in Iraq, move on, nothing to see here.” –Patrick1
Note the massive fatalities from the chlorine gas. What’s that?
NONE you say? And no one killed by chlorine in any of the other blasts?
What’s that? Patrick1 is a TROLL? The rightwing media is spreading bs because they have nothing else?
H’yeah, how can you tell.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:48 pm“if there’s chlorine gas in Iraq now (I understand they’ve already determined it was something else), that doesn’t mean it was there in 2003″
No, Pete, prior to 2003 they purified their water supply with camel manure.
We’ve brought them CIVILIZATION! And only at the cost of their nation, their culture (and a million dead citizens). At least Bushco can’t bring their deadly democracy to Hammurabi the Lawgiver– he’s been dead for 3,500 years, and as everyone knows, that’s more than half the time there has BEEN an Earth, so that’s a long time ago.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pmSodium hypochlorite is just another form of chlorine, Pete, so no, they haven’t determined it’s ’something else.’ It’s the same thing, in a slightly different form, as required by water purification in various locations (like the United States), because it is easier to transport.
It’s otherwise known as BLEACH.
Those damn Iraqi WMD scientists never rest!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:01 pmWhy are the Iraqi insurgents using Chlorine? Is it because they are waging chemical war now?
No. Chlorine is an oxidant. It is like fertilizer. They use it to increase the force of their explosives.
The deadly byproduct of gas is just a secondary result that they are obviously happy with.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:39 pmTESTING! TESTING!
April 7th, 2007 at 1:34 am38. Ding, ding, ding, ding!
ThinkProgress, do you think you could NOT spread this bs about a ‘chlorine bomb’? The people DIE FROM THE EXPLOSION, NOT FROM CHLORINE GAS.
This kind of toxic result from a BOMB generally clears up after six hours or so. People generally do not die from it, if the airway is maintained while the swelling goes down.
Bushco LOVES that ThinkProgress is SO indiscriminating as to ‘catapult’ the propaganda for their sock puppet.
April 7th, 2007 at 6:35 amBut Iraq is such a nice, safe place according to all those who stand to profit monetarily or politically. We’re not supposed to notice.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:31 amNow get in line and drink the nice koolaid we’ve prepared. It’s really good for you.
MORE AND MORE INNOCENTS DIE AS THECRAZED TERRORISTS ON BOTH SIDES, Iraq and Bushland Uber Allies PLAY THEIR SILLY GAMES OF “WHO CAN KILL THE MOST INNOCENT BYSTANDERS” AND GAIN INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OR NOT!!!!!
April 7th, 2007 at 6:57 pm