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Wikileaks absolve Bush (bio weapons, Iraq - as if ..)
Blogstitution ^ | 10-23-10

Posted on 10/23/2010 4:22:31 PM PDT by STARWISE

I’ve written about this before … but with the release of the WIKILEAKS documents, even Wired magazine acknowledges that US troops found chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. But don’t worry; if you liberals keep telling yourself “Bush Lied”… you’ll get through this.

By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

But for years afterward, WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins, and uncover weapons of mass destruction

In August 2004, for instance, American forces surreptitiously purchased what they believed to be containers of liquid sulfur mustard, a toxic “blister agent” used as a chemical weapon since World War I. The troops tested the liquid, and “reported two positive results for blister.” The chemical was then “triple-sealed and transported to a secure site” outside their base.

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2004; 200408; bcw; bioweapons; blisteragent; iraq; iraqiwmd; iraqwar; iraqwmd; labs; mustard; mustardgas; presgeorgewbush; saddam; sulfurmustard; vx; weaponslabs; wikileaks; wmd; wmdfinds
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To: LS

Is there someone that can cite Pres. G. W. Bush as having stated definitively and with certainty that Saddam Hussein had in his possession WMD? Some highly placed officials during the Clinton admin. came much closer than Dubya did to making such assertions.


81 posted on 10/23/2010 9:54:31 PM PDT by Elsiejay (.)
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To: Eagle Eye
Wow... what a photo.

God bless you, sir, and THANK YOU for your service. :o)

82 posted on 10/23/2010 10:44:01 PM PDT by nutmeg (9 days 'til Election Day... BrickleyForCongress.com... RetireBarney.com)
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To: nutmeg
If I had realized what we'd found that day I'd have taken more and better pics.

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83 posted on 10/23/2010 10:52:02 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: STARWISE
We had troops in Iraq post here on FR that they were finding them. The presence of WMD is super top secret stuff. After a while, we just assumed that the government could not tell the world about what was being discovered.

At any rate, you think if they found a live nuke in someones basement in Chicago, that anyone without a secret clearance would be told about it ?

Saddam HAD to have WMD just to counter what the Iranians are and were doing.

84 posted on 10/24/2010 12:04:39 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Eagle Eye
I was also in a meeting where a GS 15 said that the ISG had found a “smoking gun”. He then clammed up when he saw that not everyone in the room had a clearance badge for what he was saying.

Wow. Excellent info. I should have read all the posts on the thread before posting my response above. In a hurry.

85 posted on 10/24/2010 12:06:51 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Will88

They did announce some of these discoveries, and they did show pictures. I remember it quite well.

It wasn’t enough for the MSM, though. They ignored it because unless there were eleventy-jillion giant nuclear bombs lines up in a row with a sign that said “Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction,” it didn’t count.


86 posted on 10/24/2010 4:32:31 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Elsiejay

He NEVER said it. The closest anyone came was Tenent who told Bush it was a “slam dunk” that there were WMDs in Iraq. Bush always said the “THREAT” that Saddam had, or could share, WMDs was sufficient, and I agree. Had not a single WMD been found (and there were plenty), it still would have justified going into a nation that had repeatedly USED WMDs in the past and could give them to al-Queda.


87 posted on 10/24/2010 4:55:45 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Miss Marple
They did announce some of these discoveries, and they did show pictures. I remember it quite well.

I remember that also, but that's not what was being said in the early part of this thread. It was being said that significant amounts of WMD were found in Iraq, but that the Bush administration declined to acknowledge and display the finds due to some unspecified, grave national security concerns.

That I don't buy at all.

88 posted on 10/24/2010 6:08:58 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Eagle Eye
Nice pics.

The warheads on some of those buried fighter jets.... Not exactly high explosive or armor piercing, eh?

89 posted on 10/24/2010 6:34:08 PM PDT by fred2008
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APRIL 1, 2004 : (VX : REPORT : ARMY SAYS IT WILL BEGIN TO DESTROY VX NERVE AGENT AT THE NEWPORT INDIANA CHEMICAL DEPOT IN TWO MONTHS [JUNE 2004]) The Army said Wednesday that it plans to begin destroying VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot in about two months. Destruction will begin even if ... --- "Army Plans to Begin Destroying VX in Ind." 1 Apr 2004 06:41 GMT

APRIL 3, 2004 : (VX : REPORT : )... Final destination of VX byproduct draws opposition By Journal and Courier ... The Army hopes to begin destroying VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot here ... to eliminate neutralized waste from a mustard gas stockpile in Aberdeen, Md. "The treatability studies ... --- "Final destination of VX byproduct draws opposition," 3 Apr 2004 07:13 GMT

APRIL 3, 2004 : (US IS "FALLING BEHIND" SCHEDULE IN DESTROYING US GOVERNMENT CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILE) ... Pine Bluff Arsenal houses 12 percent of the government's chemical stockpile, which includes mustard gas, a blister agent, and the nerve agents VX and sarin. ...------ Weapon Incineration Falling Behind 3 Apr 2004 07:19 GMT
(* My note: Could it be because we are trying to quietly destroy Iraq's stockpiles alongside ours?)

APRIL 3, 2004 : (DESTRUCTION OF US GOVERNMENT STOCKPILES OF NERVE GAS TO BEGIN) ... fall through, the Army could store hydrolysate - the caustic byproduct from the neutralized VX - in tanks at the western Indiana site, he said. Barber fielded questions during ... ------- Nerve gas destruction to start in two months 3 Apr 2004 07:15 GMT

JUNE 2004 : (INDIANA : ARMY TO BEGIN TO DESTROY VX NERVE AGENT AT THE NEWPORT CHEMICAL DEPOT?) The Army said Wednesday that it plans to begin destroying VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot in about two months. Destruction will begin even if ... --- "Army Plans to Begin Destroying VX in Ind." 1 Apr 2004 06:41 GMT

90 posted on 09/24/2012 11:23:33 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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