[Para-Ord.45]

But but they were old. Bush lied.

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." -- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998.

[marron]

The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.

The ones that didn't exist.

[txhurl]

Hate W like many do, he had a shadow plan for this. He had to.

W, please finish them.

[Billthedrill]

A bump to the top. Despite the spin the facts in the article indicate that chemical weapons were an extant threat during and after our overthrow of the Saddam Hussein government. Yes, even "old" Sarin was out there, deliverable, and deadly. Whether or not it was being manufactured since 1991 is wildly irrelevant. The stuff was out there, it was real.

This story will plummet down the memory hole, more's the pity.

[beethovenfan]

You mean the ones they never had?

[Cowboy Bob]

If the weapons were old and ineffective, why waste time and money buying them up?

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[kalee]

I thought they did not exist. I remember clearly hearing that President Bush made their existence up so he could go to war.

[CyberAnt]

So, they released this story to get the other C.I.A. story to disappear ..???????

[marron]

They still aren’t being honest. They captured a nerve agent manufacturing plant during the invasion; the plant manager was an Iraqi general and it was secured by Iraqi troops.

The embeds showed it on TV. Then a couple of days later the news desks back home announced that, no, come to find out, its agricultural pesticide. Sure.

This happened again and again as they uncovered nerve agent stockpiles at army weapons depots and again, announced subsequently that it was just agricultural pesticide.

We have the most incurious and gullible reporters there ever were. Thank God for the embeds.

[piasa]

"at least 400"

Hmmm...

INTELLIGENCE: Why Iraq WMD Finds Were Kept Secret ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2006‎ ‎2‎:‎17‎:‎55‎ ‎PM · by Wiz · 113 replies · 3,704+ views Strategy Page ^ | 2006 Jun 23 | Harold C. Hutchison

June 23, 2006: The revelation that Coalition forces have discovered about 500 shells containing chemical weapons (mostly sarin nerve gas and mustard gas) since 2003, most [my note : but not all?] of which are pre-1991 Gulf War vintage, leads to the question as to why the U.S. waited so long to reveal this. The U.S. government has taken a beating for supposed failures to find weapons of mass destruction in the press, and from political opponents. There have been some discoveries that have made the news, most notably an incident in May, 2004, when terrorists used a 155-millimeter shell loaded with sarin in an IED....

[JoeDetweiler]

It will be interesting to see how the media deals with this, but the truth is that this has always been a non-issue. Any country that has oil refineries and chemical plants has chemical weapons any time they want them. And Iraq had both.

[Stayfrosty]

They are all a bunch of liars. Why do you folks trust anything that comes out of any DC agency? Following the NSA releases, the CIA fueled crack epidemic exposed in the 90’s, Libya, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, you have to seriously question all facets of life here in the US. Why is it all of these shady CIA executives end up working in major news networks? For some Freepers to totally write off Alex Jones or Libertarians I think is quite narrow minded. Our Government can be just as evil as any other. Take a look around folks and smell the coffee!

[TigersEye]

• Wikileaks documents show WMDs found in Iraq
• Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
• WMDs Found in Iraq Human Events
• Saddam talked of WMD attack in U.S.
• Saddam's WMD have been found
• Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
• Saddam general: WMDs in Syria
• Deadly chemicals are found dumped in river
• Evidence of WMDs in Iraq - Annonymous Freeper in Iraq
• Cyanide Salt Block Found in Iraq
• MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River
• EUPHRATES 'POISONED'
• Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
• Iraq's biological weapons program.
• Iraq's chemical weapons program.
• The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons NYTs October 14, 2014

[Vendome]

Total lie!

Everyone knows Bush lied to get us into a war Clinton and congress authorized in 1998.

[dragnet2]

Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.

They now reveal this previously undisclosed effort, yet the "secretive Iraqi" seller is not ID'd? Seems odd, as even low level drug sellers are wire tapped, followed and surveilled to find out where the stash/source is.

[elhombrelibre]

I know some about this, first hand.

[9YearLurker]

The secrecy of this is on W—as is so much else.

[SoFloFreeper]

You mean those chemical weapons we were told repeatedly didn’t exist? Those chemical weapons?

[Hot Tabasco]

I thought they were shipped to Syria.......

Syria's Chemical Weapons Came From Saddam's Iraq