No weapons that could cause any mass destruction in Iraq.

[BlackCrypt]

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

“ '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.

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

[Luminiferous]

Fucking Obama!

Why did he order that soldier to lie?

[Blizzard of Cos]

Move along. Like he said, nothing to see here.

[Woland]

can't just skip the most important part:

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.”

Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.

[vlad]

can't just skip the most important part:

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.”

Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.

Remember that joke? "We know Saddam has WMD's. We still have the receipts!"

[Woland]

haha. it's a shame, though. we knew the truth back then and some people still want to keep their heads in the sand.

at least this time, the threat is real.

too bad Turkey won't do shit, though.

[Scorpio88]

Woland!!

[Woland]

me!

i mean, Scorp!