NY Times: WMD's WERE Found In Iraq, Reports Classified

[travelinman67]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014 ... apons.html

So many returning soldiers reported finding WMD's in Iraq, despite a "no WMDS" meme having become an accepted narrative by anti-Bush, anti-war protesters.

Now, NY Times confirms numerous incidents of WMD discoveries.

[travelinman67]

Cowardly, dishonest donks hide their heads in shame when confronted with the truth.


"Bush Told The Truth, Saved Lives"

Doesn't rhyme, but more accurate

[D1B]

Cowardly, dishonest donks hide their heads in shame when confronted with the truth.


"Bush Told The Truth, Saved Lives"

Doesn't rhyme, but more accurate

Moron uses a pic of a one-legged grasshopper!

Perfect symbol for the hateful loudmouth, always hopping in circles.

Our resident one trick pony.

[AZGrizFan]

Cowardly, dishonest donks hide their heads in shame when confronted with the truth.


"Bush Told The Truth, Saved Lives"

Doesn't rhyme, but more accurate

Moron uses a pic of a one-legged grasshopper!

Perfect symbol for the hateful loudmouth, always hopping in circles.

Our resident one trick pony.

[D1B]

Moron uses a pic of a one-legged grasshopper! e

Perfect symbol for the hateful loudmouth, always hopping in circles.

Our resident one trick pony.

I'm an act. Tbag really is the hateful conk paranoid Minuteman society drop out.

[Gil Dobie]

Any D1Bola in those shells?

[YoUDeeMan]

Lovely...now our friends in ISIS, along with their Saudi handlers, have these shells.

Fun times ahead.

[travelinman67]

Lovely...now our friends in ISIS, along with their Saudi handlers, have these shells.

Fun times ahead.

They were destroyed...including 448 sarin gas rocket warheads.

My big question...why has the Pentagon kept this information (and continues to keep a large portion) classified?

In the wake of investigatory Congressional hearings specifically looking into the recovery of WMD's, why wasn't this information made public sooner?

As recent as 2011, chemical weapons were discovered in hidden caches, yet the Pentagon decides releasing that information would jeopardize national security?

[Skjellyfetti]

This isn't anything that hasn't been known for a long time.

Saddam abandoned his WMD programs in the early 90s and did not restart them.

He didn't have "mobile WMD labs." Sanctions and UN inspections WORKED and an invasion was NOT necessary.

[travelinman67]

...Sanctions and UN inspections WORKED and an invasion was NOT necessary.

No, they clearly DID NOT! Post Desert Storm UN accord required Saddam to destroy his chemical weapons: He obviously had not. Hundreds of intact "active" chemical weapons including nerve agent were found stored in munition bunkers.

Read the report, Revisionist.

[CAA Flagship]

My big question...why has the Pentagon kept this information (and continues to keep a large portion) classified?

In the wake of investigatory Congressional hearings specifically looking into the recovery of WMD's, why wasn't this information made public sooner?

As recent as 2011, chemical weapons were discovered in hidden caches, yet the Pentagon decides releasing that information would jeopardize national security?

It is possible that they knew they would not find all of them, and saying that they found "some" would cause a huge Easter Egg hunt by radical militants and the three major Iraqi sects. Obama clearly had this information, yet he pulled out the troops that could have somewhat controlled them. ISIS has found some. I wonder if the Iraqi government knew about them. They may have been told by the US that they were destroyed.

[houndawg]

My big question...why has the Pentagon kept this information (and continues to keep a large portion) classified?

In the wake of investigatory Congressional hearings specifically looking into the recovery of WMD's, why wasn't this information made public sooner?

As recent as 2011, chemical weapons were discovered in hidden caches, yet the Pentagon decides releasing that information would jeopardize national security?

It is possible that they knew they would not find all of them, and saying that they found "some" would cause a huge Easter Egg hunt by radical militants and the three major Iraqi sects. Obama clearly had this information, yet he pulled out the troops that could have somewhat controlled them. ISIS has found some. I wonder if the Iraqi government knew about them. They may have been told by the US that they were destroyed.

ISIS is more likely to fvck up and kill their own people with them.

[houndawg]

I'm an act. Tbag really is the hateful conk paranoid Minuteman society drop out.

teabaggedby67 has gone full JSO and started believing his own bullshit...

[GannonFan]

This isn't anything that hasn't been known for a long time.

Saddam abandoned his WMD programs in the early 90s and did not restart them.

He didn't have "mobile WMD labs." Sanctions and UN inspections WORKED and an invasion was NOT necessary.

Darn NY Times and their consistent conk-leanings.

[Skjellyfetti]

This isn't anything that hasn't been known for a long time.

Saddam abandoned his WMD programs in the early 90s and did not restart them.

He didn't have "mobile WMD labs." Sanctions and UN inspections WORKED and an invasion was NOT necessary.

Darn NY Times and their consistent conk-leanings.

Not at all what I said or intended to imply.

T-man takes an article and runs with it arguing something that the article does not claim.

From a conservative point of view (with an honest assessment of the NYT article):

It isn’t quite news that there are non-negligible numbers of chemical weapons left in Iraq, but Chivers’s story suggests they are much more numerous and more widely dispersed than had been disclosed.

Moreover, many of the weapons were developed or bought by Iraq with U.S. help, when Saddam Hussein was fighting Iran in the 1980s.

The existence of these weapons doesn’t affect the debate over the war’s justification either way: They’re not evidence that Saddam Hussein was, as proponents of the war contended, in the process of resuming chemical-weapons production or starting other WMD programs.

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[dbackjon]

Tbag fails to mention that these are REAGAN ERA weapons of AMERICAN design and and many of AMERICAN MANUFACTURE



Rummy/GHWB/Cheney knew they were there because THEY GAVE THEM TO SADDAM.


And, they were so degraded, they were useless.

Iraq was not a threat to the US.

So again, Conktards show how fucking ignorant they are, and how they don't GIVE A DAMN about our troops.

Bush did lie, and Hundreds of thousands did die.


FUCK BUSH, CHENEY, RUMMY.

[dbackjon]

Game, set and match Liberals.


Tbag fails miserably AGAIN.

[travelinman67]

The existence of these weapons doesn’t affect the debate over the war’s justification either way: They’re not evidence that Saddam Hussein was, as proponents of the war contended, in the process of resuming chemical-weapons production or starting other WMD programs.

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Nice try, Mr. Revisionist...

...misrepresentation by quoting out of context.

The sentence immediately following your quote:

... But on the other hand, as the existence of thousands of hidden or mislabeled chemical-weapons munitions reported in Chivers’s article could suggest, Saddam was clearly not complying with United Nations requirements about exposing and dismantling his chemical-weapons stores, which was the legal justification for the war.

Jellydonut

FAIL!!

[AZGrizFan]

I'm an act. Tbag really is the hateful conk paranoid Minuteman society drop out.

Then you should get a fucking Oscar.

[AZGrizFan]

Game, set and match Liberals.


Tbag fails miserably AGAIN.

Claiming your own victory again, Jon?

[travelinman67]

Tbag fails to mention that these are REAGAN ERA weapons of AMERICAN design and and many of AMERICAN MANUFACTURE



Rummy/GHWB/Cheney knew they were there because THEY GAVE THEM TO SADDAM.

Source?

Once again, you clearly have not read the article or the FOIA Pentagon documents. (SURPRISE!!)

The munitions were IRAQ proprietary design. Not even Soviet.

D1Back...

FAIL!!!

[travelinman67]

"Don't stop digging, Dback. It'll need to be deep enough to fit all of us."

"Shut up or dig it yourself, Jelly!"

[dbackjon]

Tbag fails to mention that these are REAGAN ERA weapons of AMERICAN design and and many of AMERICAN MANUFACTURE



Rummy/GHWB/Cheney knew they were there because THEY GAVE THEM TO SADDAM.

Source?

Once again, you clearly have not read the article or the FOIA Pentagon documents. (SURPRISE!!)

The munitions were IRAQ proprietary design. Not even Soviet.

D1Back...

FAIL!!!

Your own damn article, Zbag.

[travelinman67]

Source?

Once again, you clearly have not read the article or the FOIA Pentagon documents. (SURPRISE!!)

The munitions were IRAQ proprietary design. Not even Soviet.

D1Back...

FAIL!!!

Your own damn article, Zbag.

NEGATIVE, D1Backjon.

Try again.

[YoUDeeMan]

Lovely...now our friends in ISIS, along with their Saudi handlers, have these shells.

Fun times ahead.

They were destroyed...including 448 sarin gas rocket warheads.

Huh?

Do you read your own sources?

The article clearly said that the one large site, where the weapons were left to the Iraqis to entomb, had NOT, been cleared. Yup, the weapons are still there...and now in the hands of ISIS.

And you think all of the bad munitions have been found and accounted for?

The Iraqis certainly know where they hid the munitions...and now some of them are revisiting those areas in order to gather some goodies for use elsewhere.

As I said, good times ahead for everyone in that area.