"The
United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active
weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually
found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned
programs, built in close collaboration with the West."
[...] Five years after President George W. Bush sent troops into Iraq,
these soldiers had entered an expansive but largely secret chapter of
America’s long and bitter involvement in Iraq.
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops
repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by,
chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
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.
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That was excellent Rog. Funny how history repeats itself. In 1993 I sat in the Medical Facility in Ft. Leavenworth KS waiting to take a flight physical. I read almost the same article about how we definitely had casualties from the main push in Gulf War one. It was in the freaking Army Times, they said our guys pushed through areas that had been prepped with both sarin and bio weapons. I guess all the guys with Gulf War Syndrome fell off the radar. -Anymouse
ReplyDeleteAA+ on the graphic Rog; the ghost (of Saddam) in the (newspaper) machine arises once more.
ReplyDeleteAnd while the rare news network (Fox) would mention that some old WMD was found once in a while, they always made like the stuff was about as dangerous as old chewing gum. Until now; let Assad or ISIS get hold of some, and suddenly, what do you know, all that old poison can still kill people in bulk.