WMD found in Iraq 2003

[RonD1120 62]

And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

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[cvfd1399 0]

Gonna pull up a chair and microwave some popcorn brb.

[jcd11235 0]

You realize that those were old munitions that everyone knew he had, not from any (then) current chemical weapon program, right?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/15/bush-iraq-wmds_n_5990624.html

"[T]Here's a whole article in the IJReview that gamely manages to omit the most relevant information from Chivers' piece, while billing it as the Golden Ticket that proves President George W. Bush was right."

Original NYT Story

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[AndyBoyd 0]

There were chemical weapons found in Iraq, yes, but they were not part of any active weapons of mass destruction program, according to this article.

"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."

So while there were indeed such weapons in Iraq, the Bush regime hid this information because these rusted, abandoned weapons didn't fit the narrative of an active WMD program threatening the United States. Not exactly a victory for the Iraq war cheerleaders. No need for anyone to apologize.

Link to the article:

http://news.yahoo.com/chemical-weapons-found-in-iraq-nyt-report-135347507.html

[SkyDekker 1,465]

RonD1120

And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

Those were indeed the chemical weapons you already knew he had. Not the ones used for justification of the invasion.

Interestingly, now these will probably be used to justify invading.....again.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

cvfd1399

Gonna pull up a chair and microwave some popcorn brb.

You may want to exchange the popcorn for crow on the way back

[ryoder 1,590]

This is currently the newest topic on Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/15/176257/pentagon-reportedly-hushed-up-chemical-weapons-finds-in-iraq

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[Andy9o8 2]

See what laziness gets you? Check your facts before you post, boy.

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RonD1120

And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

Um . . . rather than read the tripe on the web site you just linked to, it might be better to go to the actual source being used to substantiate its claims.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000003160160/chemical-secrets-of-the-iraq-war.html?playlistId=1194811622205®ion=video-grid&version=video-grid-thumbnail&contentCollection=International&contentPlacement=0&module=recent-videos&action=click&pgType=Multimedia&eventName=video-grid-click

How the fuck anyone could be so stupid as to misread that is beyond me. Oh wait, the writer of the article you linked to intentionally is misleading people about it and you're reposting it like some faithful lapdog of the right-wing wacko media.

Carry on.

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[SkyDekker 1,465]

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And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

Now that it turns out that the report wasn't what you thought it was....will you now just say....yes, it was a lie?

[SkyDekker 1,465]

quade

***And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

Um . . . rather than read the tripe on the web site you just linked to, it might be better to go to the actual source being used to substantiate its claims.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/crg295evsd4kl66qu7c14qrtjis

How the fuck anyone could be so stupid as to misread that is beyond me.

Yeah, it is pretty clear from the google+ site..



Don't think that was the link you wanted to copy

[quade 4]

DOH!

Hate it when the clipboard doesn't copy things like I thought it did and retains the previous information.

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[jakee 1,596]

What was it, just last month the right tried this tactic with the 'chemical weapons plant' that ISIS took over. They said "Hey look, Saddam was making WMD after all!" Except it was a plant that was abandoned and sealed after Gulf 1 and the leaking, decaying munitions still within would only be good for poisoning anyone who tried to uncover them.

Now they're trying the exact same distortion again and hoping for some reason people will fall for it this time.

The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[jcd11235 0]

jakee

Now they're trying the exact same distortion again and hoping for some reason people will fall for it this time.

Clearly, someone did!

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[kallend 2,150]

RonD1120

And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

So (1) why did the Bush administration keep it quiet if it confirmed the WMD claim? and (2) why did Bush and Powell eventually admit that there was no WMD program?

Answers: (1) it showed that they had put American troops in harm's way with inadequate protection, and (2) because these weren't WMDs, they were old, obsolete, decayed and unusable lefovers.

You need to stop believing the right wing lie machine.

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[kallend 2,150]

cvfd1399

Gonna pull up a chair and microwave some popcorn brb.

From the ORIGINAL article (not the right-wing selectively edited version):

The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

And...

In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures. First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the war’s outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find.

And...

Participants in the chemical weapons discoveries said the United States suppressed knowledge of finds for multiple reasons, including that the government bristled at further acknowledgment it had been wrong. “They needed something to say that after Sept. 11 Saddam used chemical rounds,” Mr. Lampier said. “And all of this was from the pre-1991 era.”

And...

The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale.

I expect you are choking on that popcorn now, Anvil.

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[cvfd1399 0]

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I expect you are choking on that popcorn now, Anvil.

I read the article first, and did a quick Google search and found out all that. Why do you think I decided to pull up a chair. I knew it was old munitions from the start, thanks for calling me out tho....

Second i'm done being called Anvil. Chad made a mistake and logged in under mine at work. We are different people what do I need to do get these bullshit accusations to stop? Bill?

[ryoder 1,590]

Here is a 13min documentary video from the NYT: http://digg.com/video/chemical-secrets-of-the-iraq-war

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[jcd11235 0]

cvfd1399

Chad made a mistake and logged in under mine at work.

Don't look now, but you just admitted to being Anvil!

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cvfd1399

Second i'm done being called Anvil. Chad made a mistake and logged in under mine at work. We are different people what do I need to do get these bullshit accusations to stop? Bill?

All the OpSec of a Hollywood starlette with a nude photo.

Brilliant.

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[cvfd1399 0]

Ooh yea how is that

[Arvoitus 1]

jcd11235

***Chad made a mistake and logged in under mine at work.

Don't look now, but you just admitted to being Anvil!

Hows that? He admitted they share a computer at work.

Your rights end where my feelings begin.

[Andy9o8 2]

Arvoitus

******Chad made a mistake and logged in under mine at work.

Don't look now, but you just admitted to being Anvil!

Hows that? He admitted they share a computer at work.

Well, I don't care what anyone says, I think they're a lovely couple.

[regulator 0]

SkyDekker

***And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

Those were indeed the chemical weapons you already knew he had. Not the ones used for justification of the invasion.

Interestingly, now these will probably be used to justify invading.....again.


Ok so show us your itinerary where you went to Iraq and inspected these wmd's yourself. You spouting off like you have firsthand knowledge indicating that these weapons are from the same cache should insult ever one with a moderate IQ. The fact is until you pull documents out your speculations are just as unqualified as these reports.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

regulator

******And the Pentagon just didn't tell us. So it was not a lie after all. How many posters here will just say, "I'm sorry"?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/188068-scoff-new-york-times-blasts-biggest-myth-george-w-bush-iraq-war-water/

Those were indeed the chemical weapons you already knew he had. Not the ones used for justification of the invasion.

Interestingly, now these will probably be used to justify invading.....again.


Ok so show us your itinerary where you went to Iraq and inspected these wmd's yourself. You spouting off like you have firsthand knowledge indicating that these weapons are from the same cache should insult ever one with a moderate IQ. The fact is until you pull documents out your speculations are just as unqualified as these reports.

And here, Ladies and Gentlemen, we have the ramblings of a true believer, a true patriot. Why would we want facts to stand in the way of a good war.

Keep digging buddy, keep digging that hole.