WMDs in Iraq and did we really screw up. V. Long read.

Gus McCrae · Oct 15, 2014

I read this today. Pretty disturbing. I wanted some other thoughts....

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0

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dixiejarhead · Oct 15, 2014

That crap is all over there. In the soil, in the water. I was exposed to it and have problems with skin irritation on my arms from it. We think it was in the water.

madwabbit · Oct 15, 2014

good post gus. good read.

Gus McCrae · Oct 17, 2014

Yeah, I thought it was good. It's long though.

Emperor · Oct 17, 2014

When I got to this part, that was all I needed to see.

The American government withheld word about its discoveries even from troops it sent into harm’s way and from military doctors. The government’s secrecy, victims and participants said, prevented troops in some of the war’s most dangerous jobs from receiving proper medical care and official recognition of their wounds.

You don't volunteer to "serve" your country to be poisoned and then discarded and discredited. This wasn't WWI where you were conscripted to die in a trench.

Vermiform · Oct 17, 2014

Thanks for posting.

bjeepin2 · Oct 17, 2014

thanks for the post.
my son (the 2ed out of the 3 maines) was attached to EOD in 05-06 over there.

tim9lives · Oct 17, 2014

I'm not surprised. I'm sure that the government tried to keep it hush hush. But the real crime is when the VA won't treat or give the vets disability.

trigger643 · Oct 18, 2014

The problems bringing these weapons to the public's attention at the time were several fold.

1. They weren't the weapons we were told they had (remember the goose chase for the uranium the British Intelligence Service sent us on? You know, the stuff that was THE #1 REASON to get into Iraq?). The stuff that ultimately did not exist?
2. These weapons were old. So old in fact, that we (the U.S. and other Western Powers), provided valuable advice and guidance in their manufacture during their war with Iran.
3. Chemical weapons that we provided assistance in manufacturing are not exactly WMDs, no matter how grizzly their effects on the battlefield. They certainly were not the nuclear program we were told they had and that we never discovered substantive evidence that they continued after our inspectors oversaw the disassembling of prior to our invasion. I believe the closest we came to WMDs was an incomplete high speed centrifuge they'd ordered from France and only received 25% of the shipment on before the embargo kicked in.

I don't believe there was a cover up, I just don't think at the time these items were newsworthy. More of an embarrassment than support for our crusade.

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