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Scott B asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 7 years ago

Now what do all the "No WMDs in Iraq" pundits like Sean Penn have to say since we really did find them after all?

http://news.yahoo.com/chemical-weapons-found-in-ir...

Looks like some liberals will be eating crow... again.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    To believe Yahoo news is a questionable to start with.

    To not know or understand that any chem weapons were found isn't so hard to believe as they were originally supplied by US sources when Saddam's Iraq was an ally when they engaged in a protracted 8 year war with Iran.

    The "yellow Cake" story was a manufacturered lie by State, and the so called nukes never materialized. Ask the Chief US weapons inspector Scott Ritter about that one. After he was clear on the matter, the US covert ops went into overtime to discredit him.

    Hans Blix,s the chief UN weapons inspector found nothing too.

    So just where is the Yahoo News team getting the "official" story?

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Did you even read that article?

    Taken directly from it:

    Among the reasons for the secrecy? "The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale," Chivers writes. "After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, [President George W.] Bush insisted that [Iraqi leader Saddam] Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the world’s risk. United Nations inspectors said they could not find evidence for these claims."

    The discovery of pre-Gulf War chemical weapons — most of them "filthy, rusty or corroded" — did not fit the narrative.

    “They needed something to say that after Sept. 11 Saddam used chemical rounds,” Lampier said. “And all of this was from the pre-1991 era.”

  • 7 years ago

    We already know Iraq had empty canisters that once contained nerve gas - the same nerve gas that Saddam Hussein used on the Kurds shortly after the first Gulf War back in 1991.

    However, that wasn't what Bush and his cronies were talking about back in 2002. They were claiming Iraq had several facilities producing enough WMDs to pose a viable direct threat to the US. Instead we found a few hundred empty barrels.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Everyone should know they had Chemical weapons. Saddam used them on his own people when he attacked a Kurdish village. Maybe some liberals don't consider chemicals to be WMDs. Even though they killed about 5,000 people in that village.

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    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    B.S. the article you posted said that in 2004 US forces found chemical weapons no longer active, rusted and corroded....all pre 1991 Gulf War from 13 years before and although still a chemical danger for HAZMAT to dispose in the garbage they were no longer military weapons or active military weapons or in anyway a viable weapon, but instead neglected dumps of expired chemical weapons from 13 years earlier and pre Gulf War of 1991.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    YOU LIKE CONSPIRACIES AND PROPAGANDA , WE SEE WHY YOU COULD NOT SERVE YOUR COUNTRY IN THE MILITARY, SECTION 8

  • Huh?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    As many people have pointed out the article you referenced does not support your claim that it supports the Bush invasion lie.

    I've read your profile...you claim to believe in Jesus Christ with all your heart. Funny, what do you think Jesus would say about you lying about the WMDs? How do you justify your sins with your self proclaimed belief in Jesus?

  • 7 years ago

    What's a "WMD" ?! :o

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