I'm sure the apologies to bush are going to be forthcoming. . . http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...p-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound. Much of the chemical stockpile was expended in the Iran-Iraq war or destroyed when the weapons programs were dismantled after the Persian Gulf war of 1991. But thousands of chemical shells and warheads remained, spicing the stockpile of conventional ordnance left unsecured in 2003 after Iraq’s military collapsed as the United States invaded.
Yeah, I buy that. Probably some dude who now works for one of Chaney's defense contractor pals. Only took him a little under a decade to come forward. Highly credible.
I guess all the soldiers who are now dealing with the consequences of handling said chemical agents are faking it?
The truth always gets in the way of the liberal agenda. I did not agree with going into Iraq, but I did believe Hussein had wmd's and would have sold them to any group.
Did you, or droski, even read the damn article? Don't let the truth get in the way of you all's conservative agenda. All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them. In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures. First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the war’s outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find. ...................................................................... Participants in the chemical weapons discoveries said the United States suppressed knowledge of finds for multiple reasons, including that the government bristled at further acknowledgment it had been wrong. “They needed something to say that after Sept. 11 Saddam used chemical rounds,” Mr. Lampier said. “And all of this was from the pre-1991 era.”
Not destroying chemical weapons as they said they would seems a pretty major treaty violation to me and a vindication that they still had them. but hey. whatever fits your agenda.
Yeah, I'm sure this story will really sway people's opinion of the honesty of Bush and his cadre of stooges and treasoners.
I don't need to read the article. This is not the first wmd article that has been published in the last few years. The liberal controlled media just doesn't cover it or explains it away.
Yeah, it's the liberal agenda that took inaccurate/doctored intelligence and started a war that led to the discovery of nothing but a bunch of dilpated shit from the '70s and '80s. Damn them.
Horseshit. We went to war on the pretext that they were actively pursuing an arsenal of WMDs. This article says that they had old shit lying around that we already knew about and people got sick handling them, but the government covered up their sicknesses. In no way was this the type of situation that would have lead to the type of invasion and resulting shit show that occurred in Iraq. I'm not blinded by an agenda, I can ****ing read.
Of course you didn't. Willful ignorance is the only way to rationalize support for Bush and his gang of halfwits and war profiteers.
So, you didn't bother to read something you originally used to justify your position, even though it's from the newspaper that is the epitome of the vaunted right-wing bogeyman of the "liberal media"? And, how are all those articles on WMDs being published if the media is on lock down by liberals?
