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Originally Posted by Snapper33
I'm informed. Three tours in the M.E. as a SPECOPS Commander with a TS/SCI. There were WMD.
I applaud that you do not blindly accept what people say, but you also do not seem to have access to S/TS in order to prove your point otherwise. All I ask is that people continue to not blindly accept what the politicians say, but be open to the fact the the INTEL community knows more than the public.
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Why would the Bush admin, which claimed to have remarkably detailed knowledge of Iraq's WMDs prior to the war be so coy about saying what they found once we were in there?
These alleged weapons were described in detail by the Secretary of State in an address to the UN Security Council in a speech heard by the entire world. Now they have actually been found, you say, but it's all tippy-top secret. What changed? Why all the fanfare then, and secrecy now?
Now, I did recall reading a couple of years back that there had been uncovered several mustard-gas shells that had fallen into the hands of insurgents, evidently because we had failed to secure the ammo dumps after our invasion. The shells dated from before the first Gulf War, and from what I read had deteriorated and were not usable. The key thing was this - the shells were MADE IN THE USA. We had sold Saddam chemical weapons back in the 80's, and a few of these shells were still kicking around, although evidently they were not dangerous enough to warrant preventing insurgents from walking into ammo dumps and gathering them up.
So is that it? Were old chemical weapons found that we had sold to Saddam back when he was our buddy? And was their existance so embarrassing to the administration that they didn't dare let the public know?