Posted on 10/17/2014 7:33:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They did, but apparently there were much more there than was revealed for some reason. There were also the truck convoys that went into Syria and disappeared, some speculated that the most functional cream of the WMDs might have been on them. Was this ever addressed by the administration?
Freegards
Since it is highly unlikely that Bush's team was filled with thick skulls, and since there is no way to logically characterize Bush's refusal to defend himself as "gentlemanly behavior", we are led to the uncomfortable conclusion that - like his successor Obama - Bush was never really in charge of anything, and his role in office was to fulfill the orders of another entity.
The American public is a long way, however, from being able to accept that "their" President isn't really in charge. In the fullness of time, perhaps we serfs will be allowed to learn more.
Several years back, a buddy of mine who was over in the sandbox told me that he didn’t get it. He had seen the WMD’s and it was common knowledge that yes, Hussein had them. I figured it was true, but there were reasons for keeping it on the hush hush, need to know basis. I LOVE the fact that the left has been slobbering all over themselves for so many years now about how Bush lied. HA!! Idiots.
Bush was concerned with doing the right thing. Heck, the dude is a painter now and his daughters are liberals. They got Saddam and they didn’t care about Republican candidates anymore. Republicans could win more and save the country if they started playing hardball as a party like Dems do. Please.
This is inexplicable.
It demonstrates just how lost and screwed up our world truly is. I gave up on it a long time ago. I’d been lied to as a child about our “good” governemnt. It’s just like all the others, though does the right thing when it is in its best interest to do so.
This nation has become so much like the soviet union I was taught about in 1960’s grade school that it isn’t even funny.
Then again, in a way it is.
Remember 2 + 2 is ALWAYS 4. George HW Bush was CIA.
“Because the only ones who would have been impressed with that are/were GOP Busshies.”
Seems like there was more effort in keeping the full amount of those caches secret than just telling everyone what was found. So if it isn’t going to help you politically, why keep the amount a secret? Why bother?
Freegards
Saddam’s documents that we recovered revealed his plan to have the inqredients for WMD’s stored separately so that they could be called “aqricultural supplies” until they were combined to form the weapons as needed, instead of havinq pre-mixed chemicals that WOULD deqrade over time as the “experts” try to claim that Saddam’s weapons did. If they had been mixed they would have deqraded, but Saddam was smart enouqh to not mix them. That way he could not only have the weapons available and non-deqraded, but he could also have UN inspectors say there were just aqricultural supplies stockpiled. The evidence of the plans is in the delivery systems that were created specifically to handle chemical weapons, but we were told that was no biq deal...
The Bush administration DIDN’T sit on this information.
It was reported, and MANY Freepers are well aware of the WMDs, precursors and tons of yellowcake.
The MSM had this information, announced it once or not at all, and then let it die away without discussion. Any attempt by the Bush administration to discuss it was quickly buried.
If they did announce these finds, the MSM didn’t give it any air: WMDs were dismissed as being “old”, precursors as being “insecticide” and tons of yellowcake as “unrefined” or “non-weapons grade”.
Good. At least one Freeper gets it right
Yes, you are correct.
I suspect part of the reason is what the source of these WMDs were, at least, most of the precursors: The west including the US. I also think it is somewhat amusing that although Iraq was for a long time in the Soviet orbit, none of the WMDs were traced, from what I see, back to the USSR. I could be wrong on that but it seems correct from what was posted.
It wasn’t a secret, we heard about it, but since it was old and degraded , it was termed, insignificant. What they were looking for was the newer stuff that had already been moved out of the country.
Isn’t the point of this story that the amount uncovered was actually much more than was reported at the time and repressed BY the Bush administration? Or am I missing something?
Freegards
Because Saudis who own Bush (and the rest of his political team) told them what to say and do.
We heard about them here on FR. Plus I read one report (couple of days ago) that said the stock pile was old U.S. arms given to Saddam for the first war against Iran and the DOD didn’t want the news out. So, why is the MSM getting all huffy? The people who didn’t want to know before are still not going to want to know now.
Facing the truth takes courage.
Kinda like the Japanese and nuclear weapons.
A former PM once quoted as saying:
If Japan decides on Monday that it needs nuclear weapons, by Friday we will have them..........................
I cant explain Bush. It could be that he really believed that Saddam was making progress on Nukes and that was why the invasion was important to him, not the gas. I dont think Bush was intending to lie, he doesnt seem like the type. Obama does.
I mean I wouldn't support invading, occupying and rebuilding Syria over WWI ear poison gas technology. That would be another long nightmare. And few would have back then either.
What you said.
As I recall it was disclosed by the military, but he media brushed it off as old, unusable, mostly inert nerve gases that were probably more dangerous to move than to quarantine in place.
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