Pic taken inside an Iraqi air base weapons bunker.
They found the plant where they made nerve agent, they found stockpiles of nerve agent several times at military ammo dumps. And in each and every case they came back a day or two later and said, no, come to find out, its just agricultural pesticide.
They found it and re-defined it out of existence. I wondered then and I wonder now, who had that power? When Bush’s presidency hung in the balance, who had the power to re-define it out of existence?
Thanks to the embedded reporters we knew about it when it happened but even at that they made it disappear down the memory hole.
For people who don’t understand, if you dilute it and spread on farm fields, sure, its agricultural pesticide. If you spread it full strength on Iranian troops, its nerve agent. The Iraqi Army called it “bug poison”. And they used it to kill Iranians by the thousands. The plant manager was a Iraqi Army general, it was secured by a battalion of Iraqi Army troops, and its existence had never been revealed to the UN inspectors; they didn’t know about it. We knew about it thanks to the embeds and then it was erased from memory.
Pic taken inside an Iraqi air base weapons bunker.