We were not lied to. There was intelligence to support the presence of biological weapons. Isolationist revisionists harp on WMD’s as the only reason for getting rid of Saddam. There were other real and important reasons
Saddam had to go.
I am as good a cold warrior as anyone here. It was incompetence in support of global empire by a bunch of fools and liars. Cold War is over and we need to deal with China.
You are correct they were there but not in the numbers thought. Problem was and still is, there are no good solutions there.
There was intelligence to support the presence of biological weapons.
I was in the first Gulf War. The engineer battalion I was with got tasked to blow up Iraqi ammunition. This was near the Kuwait Airport. Around our perimeter were 4 NBC detectors. One day after imploding a bunker, all 4 alarms went off simotanuously testing positive for Mustard Gas. No one got sick. But we were told to have it annotated in our after operations physical.
Upon returning to Ft Hood, and being screened by a high ranking medical officer, I reported this. His response: “It’s the stance of the United States that NO biological or chemical agents were in the theater of operations.” I demanded it get entered. And he did. “SM (service member) states that he was exposed to mustard gas when there were none”
So yes, your statement is true. I know these were different eras; however, the story was the same for both wars and the cover ups never changed.