Report: United States kept secret its chemical weapons finds in Iraq

CNN.com ^ | October 15, 2014 | Dana Ford

[300winmag]

Maybe Bush and his cabinet just figured the left is going to hate them anyways.

Remember the 2000 election. Bush was facing an all-out assault on the legitimacy of his election. "Selected, not elected", etc. This quickly became the RAT and media party's official stance. The GOP remained silent, not that anyone would give them publicity, anyway.

After 9/11, talk of legitimacy quickly vanished. More slowly, "illegal war" became the RAT's official policy. Of course, they had to wait a couple of years to make sure the US didn't achieve a lightning victory, and for everyone to forget the near-unanimous support the RATs first gave to the war.

Besides, there was soon trillions of dollars in play, as opposed to the nickel-dime rewards of impeaching Bush for "illegitimacy".

[Thud]

gibberish. All the operational stuff had been moved to Syria by Russian Speznatz, per a plan first developed by the XUSSR, in the six months or so prior to the 2003 US invasion.

[Nuc 1.1]

I am sure ISIS will find a use for them.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They expected people were smart enough to read the actual reports?

This is not new information. This has been openly known.

But the MSM continually changed what they would call a WMD until you needed to have a working nuclear bomb with the timer going and a evil scientist in a white lab coat stroking a hairless cat explaining that this was a WMD before they would categorize it as such. And even then some would argue that since it had not gone off yet it should not be considered a WMD and so there still was no sign of them.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The U.S. government suppressed information about chemical weapons it found in Iraq, and several servicemembers were injured by their exposure to those weapons, The New York Times is reporting...aha - ordinarily wouldn't be covered since it undermines the whole Bush lied about WMD hate speech - but now we can blame Bush for people being injured and keeping information from the public - the looney left has an argument for everything.....

[Chiefwilnel]

I was at Camp Taji in 04, one of the warehouses we stumbled on was full of cyanid , then in 08 I was camp slayer in Baghdad. I am extremely lucky and blessed to not have any medical issues.

[TexasCajun]

Here is another NYTimes 8-Part article from Oct.

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

Chemical Weapons, hey aren't those WMDs?

Anyone that still says there were no WMDs in Iraq are ignorant or lying!

[eastforker]

That is correct. It is well known that GWB went to UN for approval but the desenters was Russia and France . Why?? Their name was on much of that weaponry in Iraq. So, what did GWB have to consent to to get their approval for invading Iraq? Simple. We will give you time to get your stuff out and anything we do find with your name on it gets hushed up. Finaly, GWB gets french and russian approval at the UN.

[TigersEye]

Thanks for the link to that article. My bet is that lying is more prevalent than ignorance.

[piasa]

untrue

[piasa]

untrue

[SunkenCiv]

The New York Times ... says it found 17 American servicemembers and seven Iraqi police officers who were exposed to mustard or nerve agents after 2003. They were reportedly given inadequate care and told not to talk about what happened.

See? Even the NY Slimes' failure to publish this stuff in the first place, twelve years ago, is Bush's fault! Obama loses the Israeli election? Call Bibi a racist then try to change the subject.