The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

[Acebb]

Remember, there were like no WMD's in Iraq, unless you're one of the US soldiers injured by chemical weapons and exposed to sarin

Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ 'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound.

Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

In late 2005 and early 2006, soldiers collected more than 440 Borak 122-millimeter chemical rockets near Amara, in southeastern Iraq. And in the first nine months of 2006, the American military recovered roughly 700 chemical warheads and shells, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...t/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html

Great article, great reporting.

The piece goes on to note that ISIS (Obama inherited an ISIS-free Iraq) now has control of areas with chemical weapons.

Another liberal meme has died.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Remember, there were like no WMD's in Iraq, unless you're one of the US soldiers injured by chemical weapons and exposed to sarin

Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ 'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound.

Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

In late 2005 and early 2006, soldiers collected more than 440 Borak 122-millimeter chemical rockets near Amara, in southeastern Iraq. And in the first nine months of 2006, the American military recovered roughly 700 chemical warheads and shells, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...t/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html

Great article, great reporting.

The piece goes on to note that ISIS (Obama inherited an ISIS-free Iraq) now has control of areas with chemical weapons.

Another liberal meme has died.

The great Liberal myth.

 

[festeringZit]

But wait, every libtard that I've ever met says Bush lied about WMD's in Iraq - and they repeat it like mindless puppets?

 

[SheriffJoe]

REPORT: KARL ROVE KEPT PUBLIC FROM LEARNING ABOUT WMDS FOUND IN IRAQ IN 2004

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 at 9:20 PM in Politics | 117 Comments
By The Right Scoop

It would seem that Karl Rove is dumber than many of us thought. I mean, the consistent beating the Bush administration took by Democrats and the press over not finding the very WMDs that we went to war over, and it turns out we did find them starting in 2004 and Rove covered it up?

If I were more cynical I might think Rove was an undercover Democrat or something:

DAILY BEAST – There’s one man, some Republicans say, who kept the public from learning about the chemical shells littered around the Iraqi battlefield. He was Bush’s most important political adviser.

Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration and Republican lawmakers began to find evidence of discarded chemical weapons in Iraq. But when the information was brought up with the White House, senior adviser Karl Rove told them to ‘let these sleeping dogs lie.’

The issue of Iraq’s WMD remnant was suddenly thrust back into the fore this week, with a blockbuster New York Times report accusing the Bush administration of covering up American troops’ chemically-induced wounds.

To people familiar with the issue, both inside that administration and without, the blame for the cover up falls on one particular set of shoulders: Rove’s.

From the perspective of Rick Santorum, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania who lost his seat in 2006, some of the weapons of mass destruction President Bush promised would be in Iraq before the 2003 invasion of the country began turning up as early as 2004.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, former Senator Rick Santorum said he and his staff began receiving photographs of discarded Sarin and Mustard shells from U.S. soldiers in 2004. Two years later, when he was up for re-election, Santorum even went public with some of this information in a press conference disclosing a Pentagon report that found 500 chemical weapons shells had been found in Iraq.

One might think a politically vulnerable Bush White House would’ve seized on Santorum’s discovery. After all, Bush and his subordinates famously accused Iraq of having active weapons of mass destruction programs.

But at least in 2005 and 2006 the Bush White House wasn’t interested. “We don’t want to look back,” Santorum recalled Rove as saying (though Santorum stressed he was not quoting verbatim conversations he had more than eight years ago). “I will say that the gist of the comments from the president’s senior people was ‘we don’t want to look back, we want to look forward.’”

Dave Wurmser—who served at the time as a senior adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney on national security issues —remembers receiving a similar message from Rove.

According to Wurmser, “in 2005-6, Karl Rove and his team blocked public disclosure of these (findings) and said ‘let these sleeping dogs lie; we have lost that fight so better not to remind anyone of it.’”

Rove declined to comment for this story.

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Is Karl Rove a closeted Democrat? :think2:

 

[Acebb]

No WMDs!!! BUSH LIED!!!

C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons


the extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States’ acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.



Yes, Saddam had WMD
Yes, Saddam was hiding it from weapons inspectors and obstructing the weapons inspection process.

 

[vitterd]

My God. You morons believe everything you see. Do I really have to waste time posting articles disputing all these nonsense claims? Is it even worth it? You sheep are so brainwashed it seems like a waste of time. How people become stupid conservatives is just bad parenting.

 

[Acebb]

My God. You morons believe everything you see. Do I really have to waste time posting articles disputing all these nonsense claims? Is it even worth it? You sheep are so brainwashed it seems like a waste of time. How people become stupid conservatives is just bad parenting.

You don't have any articles disputing this reporting, idiot. You are a moron who can't even read.

"believe everything you see" (while threatening to post articles)

What a fucking dumbass.

 

[vitterd]

You don't have any articles disputing this reporting, idiot. You are a moron who can't even read.

"believe everything you see" (while threatening to post articles)

What a fucking dumbass.

Lmao. Karl Rove stopped public from learning about wmd's being found. A bullshit nytimes article.

And you actually said there was no Isis before obama. Hahahaha. Going into iraq is a huge reason why we see all these terror groups now. All this blood on bush/cheney/republican hands. They have made this world a less safe place

Now iraq had wmd's. Lmao....okay dipshit....the attempts that repubs go to rewrite history is comedy gold.

The party is so thankful they have dolts like you who will suck up any info spoon fed to them. Damn you are one stupid pathetic lying scumbag

 

[Acebb]

And you actually said there was no Isis before obama. Hahahaha.

Actually I said Obama inherited an ISIS free Iraq. HA HA HA Why are you illiterate?