The recent release by WikiLeaks of classified Pentagon documents reveals that U.S. military intelligence discovered chemical weapons labs, encountered insurgents who were specialists in the creation of toxins, and uncovered weapons of mass destruction.
The latest WikiLeaks document dump reveals that as late as 2008, American troops continued to find WMD in the region.
There are numerous mentions of chemical and biological weapons in the WikiLeaks documents, however the U.S. media appear only interested in those portions of the leaked material that highlight actions that are viewed as embarrassing for the U.S. military such as the accusation that U.S. commanders were aware of abuse and "torture" of prisoners by Iraqi soldiers and police officers.
The U.S. Defense Department continues to demand that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange immediately return the stolen military documents in his possession, including recent documents that created another stir when published, according to Elaine Wilson of American Forces Press Service.
The department also wants the whistle-blowing web site to permanently delete all versions of these documents, which contain classified and sensitive information, from its web site, computers and records, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters during a Pentagon briefing.
WikiLeaks documents don't reveal evidence of a massive weapons program by Saddam Hussein — the Bush administration’s leading rationale for invading Iraq -- or some enormous stockpile of WMD, but do reveal that chemical weapons did vanish from the Iraqi battlefield.
According to the latest WikiLeaks document "dump," Saddam’s toxic arsenal, significantly reduced after the Gulf War, remained intact. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict and may have brewed up their own deadly agents, according to the WikiLeaks web site.
During that time, former Iraqi General Georges Sada, Saddam's top commander, detailed the transfers of Iraq's WMD. "There [were] weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."
Gen. Sada's comments came just a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, claimed that Saddam Hussein "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."
in 2004, for example, American special forces members secretly purchased what they believed to be containers of liquid sulfur mustard which have been used since World War I. Following testing in a military lab, the chemical was then secured and transferred to a secret location.
Meanwhile, also in Iraq, U.S. recon soldiers inspected a suspected “chemical weapons” plant:
“One of the bunkers has been tampered with,” they write. “The integrity of the seal [around the complex] appears intact, but it seems someone is interested in trying to get into the bunkers.”
During the a battle in Fallujah, American forces claim they discovered a “house with a chemical lab … substances found are similar to ones (in lesser quantities located a previous chemical lab.” The following day, there was a call in another part of the Fallujah requesting "explosives experts to dispose of a chemical[weapons] cache."
In addition, an armored vehicle came upon "155mm rounds filled with an unknown liquid, and several of which are leaking a black tar-like substance.” Initial tests were inconclusive. But later, “the rounds tested positive for mustard.”
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so wikileaks prove there were WMD's in Iraq ... and NOW (after proving Bush's INNOCENCE) the Obama administration/military want those records back!
Why? To suppress the truth?
I guess all the libs will admit they were wrong and back the war effort 100%.
North Vietnam had Jane Fonda
Saddam's Iraq had Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.
Well, liberals, guess who owes President Bush an apology for accusing of him of lying about WMDs????
I knew Bush would be vindicated!! Mr. Bush, I believed in you and still believe in you!!
My son who is a Staff Sergeant in the US Army and has seen duty in Iraq twice told me back in 2003 that he had made the acquaintance of a former Saddam military pilot and asked him what happened to all the WMD. The pilot told him they were sent to Syria when Saddam knew we were coming in.
hearsay. not admissible as evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted. gonna have to do better than that!!
Scroll up.
Of course there were remnants from Saddam's chemical weapon programs. The Reagan administration sold him mustard gas and other agents in the 1980s. These were used on his own people and Iran during the Iraq-Iran War. Its not like they were going to just disappear.
The fact is, Saddam wasn't increasing the size of his stockpile and there was no way a "Mushroom Cloud" was coming. Its time to accept it. Call Saddam genocidal, call him evil, but he wasn't a threat to us any more than any other petty third world dictator.
The US never sold Saddam weapons. The last exchange with Iraq took place before the 1968 coup.
Unless, of course, you think AK47s, ZSUs, T72s are American.
The only "military" aid he got was sanitized satellite photos of Iranian positions.
His weapons were all made by the USSR, the Krauts and the Frogs.
Ask anyone who was deployed about the "hearsay." We found stuff like this all the time, but the "right wing" press wouldn't report it. They tried very hard to dismiss 450 metric tons of yellowcake on the grounds that we "knew about it." If the police "know about" my neighbor's meth lab, that doesn't make it any less illegal or dangerous.
Interesting that the same Wikileaks who accused US troops of war crimes now has this. Will lefticles claim Assange sold out? That this is agitprop? Errors and "hearsay"? Because they certainly will never admit they were wrong.
Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia.
Dave Gaubatz found them years ago, reported to the US Govt. and nothing was done. Go back and read the history, and how it was covered up. Bush did the right thing in trying to protect us, and somehow the info was buried.
I saw the WMD, but it was in small quantities. They were looking for warehouses full of chemicals, not a few liters. There was yellow cake removed from Iraq and other suspicious items, but no working factories. There was radioactive items also, but I don't know what they were. IMHO, they had the means to manufacture weapons grade uranium, but it was scattered about in different places. They obviously could have made chemical weapons overnight if we had allowed it. To trash Bush for political reasons was unfair. He removed a murderer and a mad man, WMD'S or not.
So Obama, Pelosi, Biden, Reid, etc. know the truth and have for years...they are slime dogs and should be brought up on charges!
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