Troops Found 5k Chemical Weapons In Iraq From 2004 To 2011

[Dill]

(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.

What I don't get is that the article makes it sound like they found WMD, but then it says that they were pre-1991, outdated, rusty, and all that, but then, in the very next sentence, you have the former Army sergeant saying that there were plenty of chemical weapons and then the story about the two troops exposed to the sarin gas.

Is it just the liberal media saying that there were WMD while also trying to sound like there weren't?

Why isn't this getting more coverage if there were WMD?

Such old news.  How is it that you have forgotten this? 
This link is from 2014  https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/10/16/new-york-times-reports-wmd-found-in-iraq
This too: https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-media-still-cant-get-iraqi-wmd-story-right/
This too: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/10/16/new-york-times-reports-wmd-found-in-iraq

The sites in question were documented in 1991 and sealed.  Everyone (in leadership and the UN) knew about these weapons. They were not the reason the U.S. went to war. The Bush administration was claiming Iraq had started up a nuclear program, for which it had purchased yellowcake and aluminum tubes, and had mobile labs producing fresh biological weapons.  All a Cheney-Wolfowitz hoax.

Mustard gas shells and the like found in your article were unstable and unusable, well over a decade old. What is the half life of Sarin?
It is because of the degraded state of containers that U.S. troops were exposed to some chemicals.

The accurate reporting of the "liberal media" has laid out all these issues plainly before.

The sources above, from 2014, criticize how the Right wing media keep resuscitating the issue anew as "WMDs Found"--as if Bush were right all along. 

One last point--even if it Saddam had active biological weapons or nuclear program, it is not clear that should have been grounds for war.  So even finding evidence of that (which no one ever has) would not in itself be a vindication of the greatest foreign policy error since Johnson landed a division of Marines at Da Nang.