03-06-2019, 06:29 PM
(03-06-2019, 05:47 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: This article says that U.S. troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011.
A military friend of mine posted that on Facebook, but it's typical that it didn't and won't get much media coverage because it doesn't fit the media's narrative that the war was bogus.
Actually that is exactly what it does
"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.”
