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underpants

(182,788 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:36 PM Jun 2014

The rewrite begins - Saddam DID have WMD

I caught some of Rush Limbaugh's show today at lunch. Why? Because that is where a lot of their nonsense starts.

He was *SURPRISE* defending Dick Cheney on the Fox News interview last night. "Everything he said is true!!!"

He then cited a Wall St. Journal article and The Telegraph about ISIS "siezing Saddam's chemical weapons facility". "Wait I thought he didn't HAVE WMD?!?" He later said that since there was a facility he had to have had WMD. This was followed by a rambling justification of all the pro-war nonsense claiming that it all came true.


Just a heads up on what might be the new talking point.



This is the article he was referencing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10910868/Iraq-crisis-Obama-may-launch-air-strikes-without-Congress-amid-calls-for-Maliki-to-go-live.html

17.09 Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.

Here is the CIA's file on the complex.

Stockpiles of chemical munitions are still stored there. The most dangerous ones have been declared to the UN and are sealed in bunkers.

Although declared, the bunkers contents have yet to be confirmed.

These areas of the compound pose a hazard to civilians and potential blackmarketers.

Numerous bunkers, including eleven cruciform shaped bunkers were exploited. Some of the bunkers were empty. Some of the bunkers contained large quantitiesof unfilled chemical munitions, conventional munitions, one-ton shipping containers, old disabled production equipment (presumed disabled under UNSCOM supervision), and other hazardous industrial chemicals.

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The rewrite begins - Saddam DID have WMD (Original Post) underpants Jun 2014 OP
He got the Cheney phone call... KoKo Jun 2014 #1
Here is the money quote from the article stevenleser Jun 2014 #2
Yep underpants Jun 2014 #3
The worst part get the red out Jun 2014 #4
They did at one time Nevernose Jun 2014 #5
"Begins?" Orrex Jun 2014 #6
I've compiled a couple of resources on the Al Muthanna site... stevenleser Jun 2014 #7
 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
2. Here is the money quote from the article
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:53 PM
Jun 2014

"The Chemical Weapons Convention, which Iraq joined in 2009, requires it to dispose of the material at Al Muthanna, even though it was declared unusable and "does not pose a significant security risk"

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
6. "Begins?"
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 02:12 PM
Jun 2014

AFAIK, they've never stopped claiming that the had WMD. Only grudgingly have they even admitted that the WMDs haven't yet been found.

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