Quote:Uhhhh, you do know that's not true, right? That WMD have been found in Iraq? Even the NYT has conceded this point now.

 

Mostly degraded, unusable shells containing mustard and sarin gas, remnants of a rushed chemical weapon program during the Iran/Iraq war and abandoned in 1991. The Iraq invasion was sold on the lie that Hussein had an active WMD program and was an imminent threat to use them, when the reality was much different.

 

The NYT articles were not concessions, they were the result of intensive investigation and provide proof that not only were we deceived about Iraq's WMD program, or lack thereof, but they also showed the Bush administration's disregard for our troops' welfare. They knew these chemical weapons caches existed, but did not inform troops who were in danger of exposure, nor the medical personnel treating them.

 

The reason the discovery of these "WMD" was not trumpeted by the war mongers was  two-fold: They did not support the case made for war, and they were acquired with the help of Donald Rumsfeld.

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