guess the Slimes changed it's mind...
The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
We should never have went to war and lost thousands of fine men and women. It was not necessary. Who was in charge of the war after 9/11 what General? A big failure. Who planned it. Troops killed by IED’s everyday.
When your job is to distort the facts and or outright lie..the web can get kind of tangled.
Thank you for this. The war was, and continues to be a multi $$$ trillion dollar mistake, not to mention an unnecessary bloodbath. My heart goes out to our brave kids who fought and were killed and injured there. In the future let people free themselves from tyrannical governments, rather than the US poking it’s nose in where it doesn’t belong. Trump’s instincts are right about foreign military intervention.
Hans Blix is on record regarding the extent of the post 1991 IRQ WMD capability. That’s not classified. The myriads of mobile “insecticide” plants and thousands of tank trailers found by the coalition during the early months of OIF tell a different story- that part is not being discussed. I am not sure why everyone who thinks WMD is given to the idea that such weapons require military platform delivery systems ( rockets/artillery tubes). Why did IRQ under Saddam have hundreds of crop dusting equipped small aircraft? hmm, not like they have millions of hectares of wheat growing other than in the far northern area not really much of anything else ag related other than along the rivers.
AFA the 5k plus miscellaneous arty shells and other chem ordnance, If you dig a bit, you will find reports of warehouses filled , that is not something that goes unnoticed by the Saddam govt. Too much is classified and unfortunately, the narrative is there for some reason.
There are other players involved and in my opinion, the reason why there are no “WMD capability” in IRQ, even though the record of the UN inspection program up till 2002ish tells a different story. Shrug. ISG data and official reports are available in part.
Wonder why the 20mt of yellow cake gets no traction? What purpose does Uranium ore have in a country with no nuke generation plants? I don’t know, but it sorta speaks to me, just a little bit. Same with the centrifuges and precision tubing (sound familiar-IRN?).
Anyway. The world system trundles onward towards the great and terrible of the LORD. Amen.
The author forgot to touch on the all the bodies of the Indian scientists we found dead in the chemical facility. Sadam had them all gassed.
I personally think (and I posted it at the time) that the reason we went to war was to follow the Bush Doctrine of "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
It wasn't just that Hussein was accused of having a WMD program. It was also that Hussein was giving safe passage to terrorists inside of Iraq; that there were terrorist training camps inside Iraq (some with airline fuselages to train in).
The stategery was to make Iraq "ground zero" for the war, and have it become a magnet for the al Qaeda forces to concentrate.
-PJ
Saddam Hussein was a weapon of mass destruction.
We should be bombing Iran for supplying IEDs.
guess the Slimes changed it's mind...
The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
If he didn't have new chemical weapons, he wasn't eager to get rid of his old ones. Saddam wasn't cooperating with inspectors, fired missiles at U.S. aircraft, and turned oil for food turning into palaces. He did a good job on his own giving the U.S. and our allies reasons to invade and get rid of him regardless of our mistakes.