This is BS and NYT’s CYA. There was nothing secretive about chemical attacks while we were there. They were in the daily SIGACTS and BUAs. I read of several directly. The media CHOSE not to report them. They did not fit their meme of an unjustified war.
The NYT lied. Kurds died.
Another way to look at this:
Obola is done. Between ISIL, Obola, Enterovirus, and the global economy going into a tailspin, what better time to air the dirty laundry than during a midterm election about three weeks prior. By the time the election hits, there will be at least 100 cases in the US, and new countries developing outbreaks, and nobody will be talking about it.
They’ve been cultivating this story for a while. The NYT gets to reclaim its creds as an institution of journalism while minimizing the real damage to the Left. I mean, what else can you do to the left that they haven’t already done themselves?
If the legislative shoe were on the other foot, and Romney was President, and the Congress was Republican, the state-run media would literally look like a cage of angry spider monkeys (flinging their own feces at anyone that got within 100 yards of their cage). It would be endless, shrill, and probably violent. There would be marches.
This is the perfect time to air this out. There is almost nobody left that is going to care about this anymore.