Posted on 10/16/2014 4:54:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
There’s one man, some Republicans say, who kept the public from learning about the chemical shells littered around the Iraqi battlefield. He was Bush's most important political adviser.
Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration and Republican lawmakers began to find evidence of discarded chemical weapons in Iraq. But when the information was brought up with the White House, senior adviser Karl Rove told them to ‘let these sleeping dogs lie.’
The issue of Iraq’s WMD remnant was suddenly thrust back into the fore this week, with a blockbuster New York Times report accusing the Bush administration of covering up American troops’ chemically-induced wounds.
To people familiar with the issue, both inside that administration and without, the blame for the cover up falls on one particular set of shoulders: Rove’s.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Rove is out to kill the Republican Party. And he’ll probably succeed.
So Bush didn’t lie and soldiers didn’t die?
I have no doubt the story is true.
All these years latter and only a million times after the left has called Bush a liar over this, the TRUTH finally comes out!
Seriously, how many MILLIONS of times have we heard the left say “Bush lied us into war”
DOH! as usual the left is wrong.
Now watch the MSM employees, et al. start screaming that during the Reagan administration "US exports to Iraq included the precursors to chemical warfare agents."
I recall that said precursors were agriculture chemicals that our Dept. of Agriculture gave to numerous countries around the world.
BTTT. Mark Levin is all over this tonight.
Mark Levin just read from the NYT article. I could feel the heat over the radio. Rove is a traitor. But the buck stops with Bush for allowing Rove to have his way. PATHETIC.
Agreed, I feel betrayed by Bush. This hurt our country, hurt our military and hurt our party.
Bush should come clean on this.
Remember those drums of “pesticides” they found?
I guess that was a lie too.
This was one of the WORST kept “secrets” of all times. I have seen pictures of the missiles, reports of the yellow cake, binary weapons, and so many other reports in minor venues. There were NOT given air by the MSM, but the info was pretty clear. Even the oft quoted by the left Downing Street Memo clear stated at the end that our troops had to be prepared if Sadam used WMD chemical weapons at the invasion. You just actually had to read the WHOLE memo.
It is very clear now that some secrets the left treasure won’t hold to real scrutiny. Just note the trouble with Man-made Global Warming. The signs of the propagandists are bizarre language usage, and changing of meaning.
But most of this info has been available for years.
DK
These people let our troops hear that they were fighting for a lie!
Imagine what this costs in morale.
I'm no Rove fan, but what could possibly have been his motive to cover up the WMD? Why would he make Bush look bad?
None of it makes sense. This article smells.
Oh look, I logged on to Huffpo or Kos in error.
Of course it stinks, it’s from The Daily Beast, a Demagogic Party organ.
Sheer speculation would be blackmail over some politically sensitive or other national security issue.
The trail to Samarra: how Iraq got the materials to make chemical weapons
This December 13, 1988 article does not specifically address the Reagan issue but it is still germane vis-a-vis Saddam's chemical weapons from agriculture chemicals.
"Phillips shipped 500 metric tons of TDG to Iraq in 1983. But the company refused a second, equally massive order a year later - after reports of Iraq's use of mustard gas began to surface in the West. Phillips officials repeatedly stress that they had no idea the chemical would be used for warfare, and still have no proof that it was. 'We were just making chemicals for agriculture; it was a normal business,' says Jos Dessers, a spokesman for Phillips in Tessenderlo."
MSM employees will be screaming "Reagan permitted Saddam to build WMD!"
In fact they have all along. Rumsfeld personally delivered the goods some lefty nut cases claim.
My point: Just be prepared for the screaming.
I’ve been listening to Mark Levin. He just said this is a huge story and lets see who runs with it -IF ANYONE.
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