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

[Dill]

(03-07-2019, 05:43 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The sad part is that there were many of these weapon stockpiles that were being monitored by the UN weapons inspectors, but the weapons inspectors all withdrew when they were notified of the upcoming invasion.  Many of the weapons disappeared before our troops, er, excuse me, UN troops could retake control of those areas.

LOL even worse, ammo dumps discovered by U.S. troops and bypassed in the rush to Baghdad turned up empty weeks later, when the U.S. went back to secure them. Hundreds of thousands of 155 rounds--the prime material of IEDs--disappeared and redeployed in roadside bombings.

Those old chemical weapons were as much a danger to anyone who tried to move, store and use them, as they were to the U.S. troops.