Damn good questions though I hear a lot of stuff about Saddam was discovered post invasion that we haven’t heard about.
“Damn good questions though I hear a lot of stuff about Saddam was discovered post invasion that we haven’t heard about.”
Yes, there has been small to moderate caches of chemical weapon rounds found, and it was reported on such places as Fox News, but the story never got legs.
The stuff that has been found is older stuff, contemporous to the First Gulf war. Stuff that never got reported and destroyed like it should have been.
What is scary have been things like IEDs being found where they used unmarked mortar rounds. It turns out some of them were filled with blister agents (AKA Mustard Gas). Fortunately, the persons that rigged the IEDs didn’t realize what they had, and most of the active chemical agents were destroyed by the conventional munitions mixed in the pile (burned up). So, no major releases have occurred. This is just heresay that I am repeating and I cannot verify its accuracy.
What concerns me is that someone amoung the various bad guys over there will find a sizeable cache of “nerve agents” and actually know what they have found. If such a thing occurred, then an IED or exposive laden vehicle in the heavily populated part of Bagdad or elsewhere could have very high casualties; much more than a conventional explosive.
If several of these were to occur, then the pyschological effects on the friendly Iraqis and our own military would be significant. Operating in a mixed environment with both chemical and conventional munitions being used, would be difficult to say the least. Military personnel wearing protection masks & suits would not function as effectively in counterinsurgent operations, and would be more vulnerable to conventional attack (one can only wear so much protection). If our military shows up without being in a chemically protective posture they would be vulnerable to chemical attack. If they show up in chemically protective posture, they would be more vulnerable to conventional attack and the effects of heat. Mixing the two would wreck havoc on us.
I just hope the bad guys don’t find a cache of these WMDs. Stuff that isn’t “supposed” to be there.
my family military friends say the exact same thing.........post Saddam we recovered very damning documents about enabling Saddam his freedoms........Some Americans names were also on the list,I’m told