I’ve written about this before… but with the release of the WIKILEAKS documents, even Wired magazine acknowledges that US troops found chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. But don’t worry; if you liberals keep telling yourself “Bush Lied”… you’ll get through this.
By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
But for years afterward, WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins, and uncover weapons of mass destruction…
In August 2004, for instance, American forces surreptitiously purchased what they believed to be containers of liquid sulfur mustard, a toxic “blister agent” used as a chemical weapon since World War I. The troops tested the liquid, and “reported two positive results for blister.” The chemical was then “triple-sealed and transported to a secure site” outside their base.
Three months later, in northern Iraq, U.S. scouts went to look in on a “chemical weapons” complex. “One of the bunkers has been tampered with,” they write. “The integrity of the seal [around the complex] appears intact, but it seems someone is interesting in trying to get into the bunkers.”
Meanwhile, the second battle of Fallujah was raging in Anbar province. In the southeastern corner of the city, American forces came across a “house with a chemical lab … substances found are similar to ones (in lesser quantities located a previous chemical lab.” The following day, there’s a call in another part of the city for explosive experts to dispose of a “chemical cache.”
via WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results | Danger Room | Wired.com.
why don’t you post in your blog the links to the wiki report so people can read the enitre report in its full context? No one would deny that Iraq had chemical weapons left over from its 1980 to 1988 war with Iran but this weapons were hardly a threat to American troops let alone U.S. citizens here in the United States. I find it very conveniently that you never mention this wiki report that exposes the Bush administration lies
I appreciate your comments… I did not intend the post to be a complete history of who said what about the war… I guess my reaction was based on the people who claim “bush lied” because “there were never any WMD’s in Iraq”. (there are quite a few people who think this).