Posted on 06/20/2014 7:51:00 AM PDT by rktman
The British newspaper, The Telegraph reported this stunning little nugget yesterday, on June 19th:
Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.
Wait……WHAT?
I thought there were no WMD’s in Iraq, of any kind? Whatsoever!
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And now the Rats and Obama are going to use it to their advantage by taking away attention from Obama’s fumbling and treachery.
Just Wow! Never mind....
One reason we went into Iraq was because of the WMD’s. Now a facility pops up. Why didn’t we do something about it when Bush was President?
Now Obama and the libs are going to spin this to their advantage.
Our official position was we won't use chemical or biological, but will use nukes. All are WMD and our response in kind would be nukes.
AS I RECALL WE DIDN”Y FIND THEM! What rock were you under, when day after day after day the Democrats said we went into freaking Iraq on the lie that there WMD”S there? Then we did not find them? ARE YOU SERIOUS? Are you really young or are you trolling for the other side?
We controlled Iraq and you say we never knew of that facility?
I remember it whenever some lying Democrat gets on TV and whines about “No WMD”.
It was reported, just ignored.
There were / are more than 10,000 munition storage locations throughout Iraq. I think we found most of them but it remains unknown how many weren’t found and cleaned out. I’m sure that process took years, and perhaps was left unfinished when we left. I have always maintained that this was the reason that all stories about chemical weapons were spiked so soon after the fall of Iraq. We simply didn’t know how long it would take to search for all the places where even small stockpiles still existed— and the last thing we wanted was to be in some kind of race with terrorist groups for who could find them first. So... Early on— immediately in fact— the story is crafted that there aren’t any chemical weapons to be found.
Chemical weapons aren’t the sort of thing you’d ever want to stockpile very much of in the first place. They have a shelf life, and storage management is a nightmare. Most of the existing stock went to Syria, IMHO, as documented by Tommy Franks in his memoir. It was then likely destroyed by an Israeli air strike at a bekaa valley ammo dump.
But small amounts probably did still sit unfound in some of those thousands of sites all over Iraq. Probably artillery shells.
WMDs in Iraq ? ? .
OMG! I can't believe I just said that!
It’s not like we have a chain of custody either. These could have comeback in from Syria, or Saudi, there is really no one we can trust over there. Israel, but I doubt they trust us anymore.
I will not waste anymore time on you.
Thank God.
You're a bit mixed up, "dad". Perhaps all of what you said in your post #55 is true. If so, it was absolutely the job of the Bush administration to get the story out there. Shout it to the world. Call a news conference, speak at the UN, go on the Sunday news shows, and always go with video in hand.
But none of that was done. So I'm not going to fault the "corporate wh#res" or the general public here. If there really were WMD's, Bush did a miserable job of letting everyone know.
We knew they were there and chose not to do anything about that facility probably because it would be too hazardous.
What... We should have announced that there was a whole wasteland full of ammo dumps to come and rummage around for some castoffs? Maybe it would be better if everybody thought they didn't exist in the first place.
The moment it was known that ISIS had discovered Saddam’s chemical storage facilities, the place should’ve been carpet bombed.
Am I stuck in a time warp?
Nonsense. "That facility"? It wasn't one facility, it was thousands. Many thousands of sites scattered all over the country. One journalist inadvertently got it right when it said it wasn't that Iraq was a country with lots of ammo depots, it was that Iraq IS an ammo depot surrounded by a country.
What is even a more disturbing question is if these chemicals will fall in the hands of our Homeland Security.
After all, the HS did order millions of rounds of HP ammo for no apparent reason.
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