‘Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, 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
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Why would they do this?
Because the two parties are colluding to herd the American sheep down a certain ideological and societal chute?
It’s possible that they wanted to keep secret that they found them in order to avoid a terrorist stampede to Iraq to find and acquire them or other weapons, especially since they didn’t know where all of the weapons were. Better to take the media hit about “not finding any” until they all could be secured.
Or maybe there’s another reason.