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pinboy3niner

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44. All aged, some empty, many rusty, corroded, leaking

Reply to Iamthetruth (Reply #40)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 02:11 PM

Oct 2014

NONE of these were from WMD programs that Bush claimed Saddam had restarted.

Bush was wrong.

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Big NYT Story: The Secret U.S. Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons [View all] Hissyspit Oct 2014 OP

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2014 #1

I read it. Everyone should. AngryAmish Oct 2014 #2

Everyone should - though it is sickening karynnj Oct 2014 #6

A very long time ago (a couple of decades) I was sitting on the metro reading The Washington Post Samantha Oct 2014 #8

From this Report...Further Snip: KoKo Oct 2014 #3

Wait, so Sadam really DID have chemical weapons? I thought that was suposed to be made up kelly1mm Oct 2014 #4

I'm confused too PAProgressive28 Oct 2014 #5

These are not the WMD. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #11

No the claim was for a then current active program - and nuclear was implied karynnj Oct 2014 #7

Link to reports on this incident: JHB Oct 2014 #16

Thanks - karynnj Oct 2014 #19

No, we mostly knew about these old ones SeattleVet Oct 2014 #9

No. Read. The. Article. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #10

Seconded n/t Strelnikov_ Oct 2014 #13

Yes, youre confused markpkessinger Oct 2014 #17

No- from the article underpants Oct 2014 #30

Yes, we gave them to Iraq when poppy bush was ruling in rayguns name. They were old and probably jwirr Oct 2014 #34

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2014 #12

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2014 #14

K&R ReRe Oct 2014 #15

So what they are saying is, Bush was right Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #18

If you read the article you will find that Bush was indeed wrong Johonny Oct 2014 #20

Then why are they reporting Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #21

If you read the article you will find that Bush was indeed wrong Johonny Oct 2014 #22

And you can keep making spinning Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #25

BULLSHIT Hissyspit Oct 2014 #27

Well unlike you Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #36

No. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #38

Saddam Hussein did not have WMDs. Gormy Cuss Oct 2014 #39

So having 5,000 chemical shells Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #40

All aged, some empty, many rusty, corroded, leaking pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #44

No, it doesn't. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #46

Youarenotthetruth, please read this article Hissyspit Oct 2014 #33

I did read the article Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #37

No there's not. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #41

Because Iamthetruth Oct 2014 #47

Let's look at it another way - why wouldn't we have heard about it? underpants Oct 2014 #45

They control the site that was a CW factory before 1991... JHB Oct 2014 #23

Saddam did not have an active WMD program. Hugabear Oct 2014 #24

That was one long article underpants Oct 2014 #35

NO. READ THE GODDAMNED ARTICLE. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #26

This explains the conversation I just heard at lunch underpants Oct 2014 #28

It's insane. Hissyspit Oct 2014 #29

He and others already got this packaged and spun underpants Oct 2014 #32

Check out this crap: Hissyspit Oct 2014 #42

No - from the article underpants Oct 2014 #31

K&R woo me with science Oct 2014 #43