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NY Times reveals secrets of WMD cover-up in Iraq
Fox News ^ | 15 Oct 14 | Fox

Posted on 10/15/2014 4:49:02 AM PDT by xzins

The New York Times...details U.S. forces in Iraq finding thousands of chemical weapons during the Iraq war. "From 2004 to 2011...troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule," "In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2011; almuthana; bcw; bush; chemicalweapons; coverup; deception; iraqiwmd; iraqwmd; isis; mosul; muthana; warheads; wmd; wmdchem; wmdfinds
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1 posted on 10/15/2014 4:49:02 AM PDT by xzins
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This is obviously a cover-up.

The gut reaction is to say “Bush was right.” This actually makes me question President Bush who obviously had this information suppressed. It led directly to the demise of the republican party at just the time that we needed one more supreme court justice to change this nation.

The revelation now means that the powers that be want to re-enter Iraq with boots on the ground and realize they oversold their own lies. Those lies are now preventing them from doing what they want.

So they attempt to walk them back

Many freepers knew this all along. Many (including me) had troops who said they’d encountered WMDs. Their lone voices never surfaced in the media.

Pure cover-up.


2 posted on 10/15/2014 4:49:15 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Why would Bush want to cover it up and have his reputation sullied that he “lied about WMD’s”? This makes no sense.


3 posted on 10/15/2014 4:51:49 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: winner3000

But he did.

The only reason that makes sense to me is there was a desire for a transition of power to the democrats.


4 posted on 10/15/2014 4:53:02 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: winner3000

Because he was a god-damned liberal fixated on the destruction of the republican party? “We’re all socialists now.”


5 posted on 10/15/2014 4:53:15 AM PDT by dangus
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To: winner3000

i agree. why would the bush admin admit publicly that there were no WMD’s when they were finding them all over the place?


6 posted on 10/15/2014 4:53:47 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: xzins

There WERE reports of WMDs during the Iraq war.

The MSM and liberal retort was “Oh, those are OLD WMDs”


7 posted on 10/15/2014 4:55:06 AM PDT by kidd
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To: winner3000
Why would Bush want to cover it up and have his reputation sullied that he “lied about WMD’s”? This makes no sense.

One possible answer is that he really is as stupid as the liberals say he is... though not for the reasons they choose to talk about.

8 posted on 10/15/2014 4:59:11 AM PDT by samtheman
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They ran a report on those ‘old wmds’ a few months ago. They are now 10 years older than they were when they were first found. No one wants to enter the bunkers. They fear them. They are stockpiles.

So, wouldn’t they be even more lethal 10 years ago?

The lies are amazing. The liars are in both parties.


9 posted on 10/15/2014 4:59:39 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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I remember during the height of Operation Iraq Freedom, there were several reports of our soldiers finding ‘stockpiles of WMD’ (some with video footages). Only to be told that chemicals were dual-use or something like it.

Hence the perpetual “Bush Lied about WMD” meme to get us into an unnecessary war.

Now THEY are telling us, our men and women DID find WMDs but it was covered up?

For Heaven’s sake, WHY? WTF @$^&#*&


10 posted on 10/15/2014 5:00:09 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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Why? See #2.

They want boots on the ground in Iraq and need to walk this back.


11 posted on 10/15/2014 5:01:08 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
This actually makes me question President Bush who obviously had this information suppressed.

Given the mainstream media's disdain for all things Republican, it is at least as likely that they had this information suppressed.

12 posted on 10/15/2014 5:01:29 AM PDT by meyer (Who needs gas chambers when you have Obamacare?)
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A president cannot have information suppressed.

He can simply stand before a microphone and say it and say it and say it.

President Bush NEVER fought this.

You must understand....I was a radical GW Bush supporter, regularly accused of being a BushBot


13 posted on 10/15/2014 5:02:55 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: winner3000
Most people knew that Saddam had chemical weapons, he used them against the Kurds killing thousands, which was well documented at the time. When people talk about WMD's they were using it as shorthand for nuclear weapons. It's amazing to me that most people don't know about the 550 tons of Yellowcake, the pre-cursor to Plutonium, that was shipped out to Canada after the second gulf war.

Rather than a devious plot by Bush to cover it up, I think it was more a failure to go over the heads of the Democrat Publicity machine ( a.k.a. the "Press")

14 posted on 10/15/2014 5:06:01 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: xzins

President Bush never fought a LOT of things. One of his characteristics that I did NOT like. He had broad shoulders and let the BS roll off of him, but he didn’t fight to get his word out when he needed to do so IMHO.

I wouldn’t call that “suppressing” information. I think his desire to avoid getting dragged down into the “bug dust” hurt him at times, and this was one of those times. In fact, in this case, it hurt more than him - it hurt the country and was probably a major contributing factor to how we got stuck with the present administration.


15 posted on 10/15/2014 5:07:23 AM PDT by meyer (Who needs gas chambers when you have Obamacare?)
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To: xzins

This one throws me for a loop. When these were found, one would think the Bush administration would’ve trumpeted it with the grandest “told you so” messaging possible.

I don’t understand America anymore.


16 posted on 10/15/2014 5:08:00 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: xzins

LIES! My Editor at the time told me to my face that the soldiers coming back with these stories were only looking for attention. The Dems assured him there were no WMDs.


17 posted on 10/15/2014 5:08:03 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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One thing they were not finding were recently manufactured WMDs, perhaps that is the reason. Frankly, they should have known that as some of the shell enclosures and precursers for the WMDs came from the WEST. So, since the basic elements had not been sent to IRAQ since about 91, why would they have expected to find currently made stockpiles? Makes no sense to me as to why this was a partial basis for this war. Why they did not want to point out they found old degraded WMDs anyway can be explained as political BS.

Since the time Bush I did not wish to take out Saddam while he had the machine to do it in place, this whole Iraq thing has been one giant fiasco. It is the perfect example of what happens when you loose the dogs of war. We last won a war when we left occupation forces on the ground in the loser country. We withdrew from Vietnam and Iraq and the result is going to be the same. The best our Nation had to offer was wasted over PC and BS.


18 posted on 10/15/2014 5:08:05 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: camle
Why did Romney back off on using Benghazi as a campaign issue? Maybe all those old weapons are meant to get to rebel groups that will do the globalist's fighting for them?

And we're just pawns in their game.

19 posted on 10/15/2014 5:11:03 AM PDT by grania
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To: xzins

I recall seeing pics and text of found chemical warheads. ‘See there are WMDs !’.

The MSM blew it off with, ‘Those are leftovers from previous stockpiles, old stuff. Their not from a new batch, therefore they don’t bolster the argument as to why we went to war a second time.’


20 posted on 10/15/2014 5:12:40 AM PDT by Vinnie
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