Seriously, some answer... why?
Bush's own Pentagon was covering up the discovery of WMD at the same time the Democrat media was beating the drum and selling the sheeple that there were no WMD shortly after it looked like the war wouldn't be a redux of the Spanish-American War in terms of time and resources required.
Wasn’t the NY Slimes among the first in the media to tell us there weren’t any WMDs in Iraq and Bush just declared war for Iraq’s oil and the benefit Halburton? Ironic that now they tell us the there WERE WMDs in Iraq after all.
Pentagon hid info on thousands of chemical weapons in Iraq for years
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Talk about hiding in plain sight. Only liberal wack-jobs denied there were WMD’s in Iraq, Syria and other terrorist nations.
A soldier who participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq told me his group was hit with mustard gas.
Lied to by the press. Lied to by the government.
Doesn’t it make you feel so...American?
WTH? Yes, again . .why?
Two questions if true:
1) Why did the Bush administration cover this up?
2) Why were they not all destroyed when we were there?
All I can figure is that they are lying NOW in order to stir America to take on ISIS on the ground.
They figure if Bush could do it, so can they?
I would not call it a “cover up” during the early years of the war. During my time in Iraq (OIF II 2004-2005) we had plenty of reports of buried/ hidden chemical munitions. But they weren’t picked up in the press or were under reported because they did not point to “on going WMD development.” Specifically, the old munitions did not point to nuclear programs (other than the 500,000 tons of Nigerian yellow cake uranium which was exported to Canada from Iraq, which received brief press coverage in 2006 or 2007). The old, hidden chemical stock piles were not made a big deal of because they were either looked upon by western analysts as disposed of rather than stored....the concept never occurring to many in the west that the Iraqi (regional) standards of maintenance and safety are somewhat less than we are used to. (— An odd example was readily apparent when one of my colleagues during another Mid-East tour (1995-1996) found blasting caps stored directly on top of high explosives in an allied munitions bunker). -—Anyhow, everybody over there was probably exposed to toxic industrial chemicals at some point; ones that were improperly stored, burned, poured in a sewage system or river, or otherwise improperly destroyed. The exposure to various degraded weaponized versions were probably not much worse...... I would be much more likely to agree with a cover up after 2008, as so much of the Democratic messaging during the Surge was focused on accusing Bush of lying and Pres Obama could not be proven wrong.
Everybody knew that Saddam had chemical weapons and had used them in the past.
The first President Bush had a 92% approval rating after DESERT STORM. The press couldn’t stand that as they had been staunchly against that war. They also believe they are paid by the Democrats. They couldn’t let the second President Bush get that kind of rise in approval ratings. So they changed the debate from a madman with chemical weapons to whether Iraq was producing WMDs.
They succeeded in ruining the second President Bush’s approval rating which led to the election of Barack “Numnuts” Obama as our President. The American Press is tied to Obama and all his dithering, and they are trying to run from the mess they made. We should hand the American Press a mop and a rifle and tell them to get their asses to work and clean up the Ebola and ISIS messes they made.
I still remember the frustration I felt when I heard about this “through the grapevine” before I retired. Word was that Bush himself didn’t want to make it public so that it didn’t look like he was pushing it in the face of his detractors -— no idea at all if that was true or not, just what was being said. It still galls me when I hear people say Bush lied about WMD’s when I know they were there. This proof -— or any proof -— will mean nothing at all to those who are sure we made it all up just so we could go to war in Iraq.
I always gave Bush the benefit of the doubt from day one on WMDs. I think that was justified. I still think there are things hidden that we don’t want to know about.
Well, at least they protected Hasan.
............ [/s is this really necessary?]
They didn’t even open up some of the bunkers so how do they know when all of it was manufactured?
Interesting. In 1994 Iraq appealed to the UN for permission to restart chemical production at these sites.