Posted on 08/13/2015 7:12:50 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Pentagon sources tell CBS News that reports are "credible" that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) likely used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
It is unclear if the gas was leftover from Saddam Hussein stockpiles or if they were brought over from Syria, which would be the two likeliest sources of the gas, said a senior Department of Defense official. The official said the reports are credible because of prior information, but did not elaborate.
Mustard gas is considered an "antiquated" weapon that must be used in very large concentrations to be lethal, the official told CBS News.
"ISIS is a group that has demonstrated time and again its willingness to stop at nothing," the official said. "This is further evidence of that."
Earlier Thursday, other officials had said reports were credible that ISIS launched a "crude attack using chemical weapons" against Kurdish fighters. But they had stopped short of identifying the weapon as mustard gas. . .
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This is impossible because Bush Lied.
You beat me to it.
Now that’s one of those red line things,,,,isn’t it?
It has been speculated for years that Hussein’s WMD went to...wait for it...drum roll please...YES! Syria! Gene tell the contestant what he’s won.
You’ve won a horrible death by chemical weapons that were hidden by the Assad regime, and now can be smuggled into the US via our southern border. Isn’t that great!!
This cannot be true. There’s a treaty against this sort of thing.
Impossible, Obama drew a red line..
isis used gas in Syria against the people and the lying gop establishment tried to blame it on Assad!! Total joke. We should have been supporting Assad!! These jack Asses don’t even know what Wahhabi sect Sunnis are!!! Wake the hell up!!
“leftover from Saddam Hussein stockpiles”
Did CBS just say what I think they said?
Wait... wait, wait, wait....
Barak Obama: The truth of the matter is that the previous administration went to war and committed thousands of lives.... and failed in it’s core mission, to find the WMDs. Today, as you see from the reports, my administration is taking the first concrete steps in eliminating these WMDS.
Bets on how long it takes for that meme to be trotted out?
Progressives need to understand that nobody but them. Plays nice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqb7Gw2DE4
Yeah that’s darn right Bush lied. And 550 metric tons of yellowcakes (U-238) was low grade it couldn’t be processed to U-235 per CNN-MSNBC
First reports were that it was chlorine gas. Which is much easier to believe.
I’m not sure....but I don’t think lopping off heads, burning people alive, drowning them in cages, killings 100s at once are across Obama’s redline.
Wait, what?
There were no WMD. The WaPo told me so.
They must have made it themselves, accidentally of course, while trying to fuse some guldens into rancid goat meat in a burned out meth lab abandoned by the infidels. Just trying to show charity and share some food with the misguided kafir dontcha know...
Send in the food stamp brigade!
The WMD that Iraq did not have. /sarc.
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