Word: mustardize
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...case, the highly skeptical Bush Administration will make its own judgments, looking at what is on the list-such as what the Iraqis did with tons of mustard-gas materials that have not been accounted for-and, just as important, what is not on the list. It will measure Iraq's veracity by comparing its list with the one the cia has in its pocket. Administration officials, from the President on down, continued to insist last week that they had "solid" evidence-which they had never made public-that Saddam did too have an extensive armory for mass murder...
...Muthanna, the chemical base, the U.N. team unearthed some dusty shells filled with mustard gas, but they had been previously tagged and sealed in past inspections. Only at the Karama missile-design plant in northern Baghdad did the inspectors discover a small violation: several pieces of suspect equipment were missing. Iraq made sure worldwide television crews recorded it all: how punctiliously the regime complied with the U.N. crew, how empty-handed the inspectors came away...
FALLUJAH II At this chlorine and phenol plant, Iraq produced nerve agents like mustard gas. The plant was bombed during the Gulf War. Afterward, U.N. inspectors destroyed the remaining ingredients and equipment. Since then, the CIA says, the facility has upgraded equipment and expanded chlorine output...
TAJI Site of Iraq's long-range-missile program. It was nearly flattened by bombing. Inspectors then destroyed prohibited missiles and related equipment. Much of Taji has been rebuilt, and in March an Iraqi defector reported that mustard gas was being produced here...
...Well, if they declare that they have a lot of mustard gas now, after having denied it before, everyone will say, "It was not correct what you said before." However, I think that the inclination of the Security Council will be to welcome any revelations and welcome the opportunity to eradicate such weapons, rather than saying "Now we will send an army...