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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
So I don't know what to make of this, or why the administration, in the face of everyone saying that they were lying about WMD's, covered it up.... except for the fact that Europe and the US gave them the means to make them..... Just really frickin' weird story that is not getting a lot of circulation so far...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...w-nytimes&_r=0
"In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act."
 WTF???
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I think you are misunderstanding what was said when we went to war vs what was reality.
The reality was the US and other Western powers did provide Saddam with Chemical weapons. This is a known fact, we gave him the weapons, therefore we knew he had them.
After Desert Storm, one of the conditions put in place, was Saddam was supposed to destroy these WMDs which we provided him with. Destroy is a tricky issue if they don't have the ability to do so. What Saddam did and the US knew he had done was to disable the rounds and burry them. This was accepted as destruction for many of the rounds, by the UN mandate.
Now move on the George Bush's claims.. bush claimed that Saddam had the capability to manufacture "new" WMDs which Saddam never had the ability to do. Hence nothing new here.