http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/26/usa.iraq
Do you remember the WH Correspondent's Dinner when W played a video of him looking around the WH and the Oval Office under papers, desks and in drawers comically saying, "Nope, no weapons of mass destruction in here!" That sequence was very bizarre, and I couldn't understand why he would hold himself up to ridicule for such a controversial joke. The media and the left DID excoriate his joke after the horrors of the war, but it looks now like that was part of the effort to keep the actual discoveries top secret.
https://youtu.be/GvliUuXjbL4
1.) The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
"I felt more like a guinea pig than a wounded soldier,” said a former Army sergeant who suffered mustard burns in 2007 and was denied hospital treatment and medical evacuation to the United States despite requests from his commander.
Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ '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.
Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”
The yellowcake was the last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts, but years of final cleanup is ahead for Tuwaitha and other smaller sites.
The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency plans to offer technical expertise.
Last month, a team of Iraqi nuclear experts completed training in the Ukrainian ghost town of Pripyat, which once housed the Chernobyl workers before the deadly meltdown in 1986, said an IAEA official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decontamination plan has not yet been publicly announced.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
3.) WMDs Were Found in Iraq…CIA Bought 400 Rockets Filled With Sarin Gas
It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.
Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before.He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.
The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.
All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: “Get the hell out.”
That led to more discoveries including one cache of 2600 rockets armed with chemical weapons. At the time, Jarrod Lampier, a now retired Army major said that he was ordered to make a statement downplaying the find:
“’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say.”
“’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say.”
does anyone here realize that the WMD's were actually found in Iraq and that fact was kept Top Secret by the military until they were mostly all accounted for and transported out of the region to safety in Canada and other friendly sites?
1.) http://www.nytimes.com/.../us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical...
2.) http://www.nbcnews.com/.../secret-us-mission-hauls.../...
3.) http://www.dcclothesline.com/.../wmds-found-iraqcia.../
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/26/usa.iraq
1.) http://www.nytimes.com/.../us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical...
2.) http://www.nbcnews.com/.../secret-us-mission-hauls.../...
3.) http://www.dcclothesline.com/.../wmds-found-iraqcia.../
Bush laughs at noPreview YouTube video Bush laughs at no WMD in Iraq
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/26/usa.iraq
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