[RJS1950]

It’s bad enough that the POS democrat party kept this hidden but it also appears that the Bush admin kept a lid on the early finds as well. That is a bunch of crap.

[Madam Theophilus]

The Democratic chickens are coming home to roost?

[yldstrk]

Our government is sick

[cdcdawg]

Worry not! The Left has an answer for this! You see, nobody EVER disputed that these OLD weapons were present in Iraq. That is their line on this. Prepare accordingly. Meanwhile, it appears that Bush did lie, but not the way they say.

[Fred Hayek]

But but but. There were no WMDs in Iraq! Bush lied! It was all for oil! (/sarcasm)

[Marko413]

[tflabo]

Can’t believe the Feral Govt. nor the NY Slimes. Everything gets triangulated with Dem liars in control. To be fair GWBoooooosh fluxed up by going into Iraq. Saddam was bad but look at Iraq now plus ISIS has our weapons thanks to scum Bam. We wasted brave military lives and mega billions for a disaster in return plus all the lies. What a cluster goat copulation.

[Sacajaweau]

Why is this coming out now? Did Bush know? Did Obama know?

Given that Benghazi was 2 months before an election....are we repeating the history of Obama and his lies. What lies will this story produce.

[A_perfect_lady]

Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ ’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major...

Instructed by whom? There's a curious lack of specific finger-pointing in this article. There was a study group that didn't report everything to Congress? Who commissioned this "study group?" Who were they? Who was "instructing officers" to keep quiet, and to keep quiet to whom? The government? The media?

This is incredibly vague and looks to me like the media's way of pre-emptively covering their butts when Isis makes it more and more clear that WMD WERE there, WERE found, and were NOT reported to the public by the MSM. Suddenly "Oh, we were instructed not to tell ..."

[Buckeye McFrog]

well then, WHY IN THE FRACK did the Bush Administration keep a lid on this and allow the Democrats to thrash them repeatedly about the head and neck for five years?

Leading directly to the reign of Barack the Incompetent?

[Arrowhead1952]

“I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

I remember troops coming back from Iraq saying they had taken part in destruction of chemical weapons. Every engineer unit that deployed there was part of incinerating the warheads. They were told to shut up about the 'finds'.

[tomkat]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215332/posts

[SECURE AMERICA]

No shit. Everybody knows that.....
Well everybody with any intelligence........

[celmak]

I cannot help that there is manipulation in the NYT story, i.e., the timing this story comes out (why now?), the previous administrations that “are” involved in creating WMD’s in Iraq, the story coming out AFTER Pres. Obola has made a mess of Iraq/middle east, etc.

[Redleg Duke]

"The existence of these weapons doesn’t affect the debate over the war’s justification either way: They’re not evidence that Saddam Hussein was, as proponents of the war contended, in the process of resuming chemical-weapons production or starting other WMD programs. But on the other hand, as the existence of thousands of hidden or mislabeled chemical-weapons munitions reported in Chivers’s article could suggest, Saddam was clearly not complying with United Nations requirements about exposing and dismantling his chemical-weapons stores."

Typical Slimes BS.

[Nip]

Notice that the newspaper doesn’t want to make things right.

What the NYT, and every other newspaper, which headlined the lack of WMD to print - above the fold on page one - the fact that there were WMDs and they elected not to truthfully report what was going on.

Until this happens the NYT and other newspapers will watch their readership, and hence add revenues, continue to fall.

[minnesota_bound]

George Bush knew if this was 2006, 2007 so why cover it up? I am guessing a guy named Karl Rove.

[blueunicorn6]

The first President Bush kicked butt with DESERT STORM and had a 92% approval rating......92%!!!!! The American press then methodically attacked him and he lost re-election. The American Press think they are paid by the Democrats, so they were lined-up to make sure the second President Bush didn’t get a big bump in his approval rating from the war in Iraq. The President of The United States told the people of the United States that Saddam had WMDs and had used them in the past. It was the American Press that worked to downplay this and ruin Bush’s approval rating which gave us Barrack Hussein Obama as President. The American Press deserves to have their asses kicked.

[jagusafr]

I am appalled, not just at the cover-up but at this attitude that, “Well, now that it’s out, we’re doing the right things.” Sounds waaaaayy too much like a certain former SOS after Benghazi.

I am ashamed that the military in which I have served for nearly 30 years would refuse its own soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines medical treatment simply in order to keep a lid on the fact that WMD were found. There is no excuse. None.

[kidd]

The existence of these weapons doesn’t affect the debate over the war’s justification either way ... Saddam was clearly not complying with United Nations requirements about exposing and dismantling his chemical-weapons stores.

The existence of these weapon most certainly DOES justify the war. These weapons are clear evidence that Iraq was NOT complying with the terms of the Gulf War cease fire.

It doesn't affect the debate over the "nation building" that occured after the war, but it most certainly justifies the decision to invade Iraq.

More NYT BS.