Something doesn’t smell right here. The US scoured the country for years looking for WMD caches. How does ISIS waltz in and immediately “find” these?
They were told where to look?
This would also prove that Obama was wrong to completely pull out of Iraq, was wrong about the threat of the war all along, that Kerry was wrong during his run in 2004 when he was for it before he was against it, and so on and on.
It's too bad that Mr. Ted "Lie after lie after lie" Kennedy isn't still around to explain things.
The Democrats probably figured that if it was all left buried in the sand, then it was best to leave it there so nobody would find it and the truth would never come out.
-PJ
I don't know, but could some of ISIS be escaped henchmen of Saddam who were involved in the hiding of them -- just waiting for the chance to take over the area and retrieve them?
Well, they were just laying there at the Syrian border.
Does this help?
http://cns.miis.edu/stories/100304_iraq_cw_legacy.htm
On February 12, 2009, Iraq acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a multilateral treaty banning the development, production, stockpiling, transfer, and use of chemical weapons.[8] (To date, 188 countries have signed and ratified the CWC.) After joining the Convention, Iraq was obligated to declare within 30 days any legacy stocks of chemical weapons it had inherited from the Saddam Hussein regime. On March 12, 2009, Iraq declared Bunkers 13 and 41 at Muthanna containing filled and unfilled chemical munitions and precursors, as well as five former chemical weapons production facilities, to the international body overseeing CWC implementation—the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, the Netherlands.[9]
Because of the hazardous conditions in Bunker 13, UNSCOM inspectors were unable to make an accurate inventory of its contents before sealing the entrances in 1994. As a result, no record exists of the exact number or status of the sarin-filled rockets remaining in the bunker. According to the UNMOVIC final report in 2007, the rockets “may be both filled and unfilled, armed or unarmed, in good condition or deteriorated.”[10] In the worst-case scenario, the munitions could contain as much as 15,000 liters of sarin. Although it is likely that the nerve agent has degraded substantially after nearly two decades of storage under suboptimal conditions, UNMOVIC cautioned that “the levels of degradation of the sarin fill in the rockets cannot be determined without exploring the bunker and taking samples from intact warheads.”[11] If the sarin remains highly toxic and many of the rockets are still intact, they could pose a proliferation risk.