Those damn suits

[loupaulsen at attbi.com]

On the subject of evidence, I assume everyone else is as fed up as I am with 
the media's breathless reporting of Iraqi chemical protection suits being 
discovered every few days?  And with the fact that no reporter ever asks:

- Who manufactured these suits?
- When?
- When did Iraq import them?  
- If it was under the regime of sanctions, then it's no surprise - right?
- If it was back in the 1980's, isn't it likely, maybe obvious, that they were 
obtained for use in the Iran-Iraq War, in which both sides used gas?
- Why haven't the military volunteered this information already, which they 
undoubtedly determined within an hour of finding the first suit?
- Is it because they really ARE old suits, and they are deliberately trying to 
use them as evidence of a currently active Iraqi offensive chemical weapons 
program, for which they have no other evidence?
- If suits are found in the possession of the USuk* forces, is this evidence 
that they have offensive chemical weapons?

lp