If this story stands up to scrutiny then we told you so. We warned about if ISIS got their hands on those chemical weapons that never existed after they existed. So now it looks like they got them and we still have 400 marines within spitting distance of ISIS. In fact, one just got wounded by a very near miss (fragments from a bullet impacting near his face).
I wish the left had been right about something especially those chemical weapons but as usual, they're not.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...icle-1.2149739
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/american...nfire-in-iraq/
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
We have been through this with you already JD. This is the link you posted back in Oct. 2014. The only weapon systems found were corroded weapons from the 1980's that NO LONGER WORK.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...pons.html?_r=1
This is from your link JD.
The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Bush insisted that Mr. Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the world’s risk. United Nations inspectors said they could not find evidence for these claims.
Then, during the long occupation, American troops began encountering old chemical munitions in hidden caches and roadside bombs. Typically 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets, they were remnants of an arms program Iraq had rushed into production in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.
All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them
could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin.
Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.
In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures.
First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the war’s outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find.