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To: Starman417

Pretty good article about the WMDs that were found in Iraq. Quite a few pictures.

If the Establishment Media had not been completely out to destroy Dubya Bush, they would have admitted that WMDs were found. It was just that Saddam lied to everyone to maintain control. He did not have as much or as varied WMDs as we thought, a fair amount was destroyed through incompetence, and he could not keep his nuclear program going.

So, we had an intelligence failure on how much of a WMD threat existed in Iraq.

Of course, if we had not invaded, Saddam was all set to gain access to enormous oil proceeds and to start everything up again.


3 posted on 04/07/2017 6:35:07 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I'm not sure I could objectively criticize any nation that maintains a store of WMDs for its own defense. Isn't this exactly why the U.S. maintains the most destructive WMD arsenal in the world?

This would be especially true in the Middle East -- where some countries maintain their own nuclear weapons programs in defiance of "international law," and others aren't even bound by some of the international treaties that cover various types of WMDs anyway.

5 posted on 04/07/2017 6:44:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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I remember numerous posts on FR, back in the Bush days and later, alleging that Saddam’s WMD were taken to Syria.

A blast from not-so-past:

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2012/07/14/and-where-did-syrias-chemical-weapons/


8 posted on 04/07/2017 6:57:37 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: marktwain

[[If the Establishment Media had not been completely out to destroy Dubya Bush, they would have admitted that WMDs were found.]]

Actually the NYT did admit it- years later- after they LIED for so long about george bush

“BOMBSHELL: New York Times Reports WMDs WERE Found in Iraq!

Read more: http://thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-new-york-times-reports-wmds-found-iraq/#ixzz4dcrTEoci

The New York Times shockingly admitted in an explosive front page report that thousands of WMDs were found in Iraq since the start of the war:

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Read more: http://thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-new-york-times-reports-wmds-found-iraq/#ixzz4dcrgGvrk


17 posted on 04/07/2017 8:40:04 PM PDT by Bob434
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