Reply #12: A MAJOR story - ties in to Bush's lies about WMD [View All]

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These are Gulf War vets from 1991 who were exposed to destroyed sarin tipped warheads at the gigantic weapons depot inside Iraq known as Khamisiyah. At the end of the First Gulf War, special ops teams were sent by the U.S. into Iraq to destroy Saddam's WMD. Our government repeatedly denied, year after year, that our own soldiers had been exposed to chemical weapons and that our government had intentionally gassed our own people in uniform. Returning Gulf War Veterans were complaining of the phenomenon known as Gulf War Syndrome and the Reigle Commission in the Senate in 1994 finally uncovered the evidence that the Reagan-Bush Administration had allowed private U.S. companies to sell chemical and biological substances to Iraq through export licenses granted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Reigle Commission tried to obtain additional records from the CIA and the Department of Defense regarding our military's destruction of Saddam's stockpile but they were met with nothing but stonewalling. The U.S. government denied the destruction of Saddam's stockpile right up until 1997 when the CIA finally released a White Paper entitled "Khamisiyah: An Historical Perspective On Related Intelligence". In that document, the CIA admitted to one instance of sarin gas released by the efforts of our own military at Khamisiyah. Since that time, a couple other operations have been admitted to and the evidence keeps trickling out.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/73391p-67913c.html

The reason this is important is because this largely explains where the WMD went, why we didn't find it, and why Bush knew he was lying to the American people and to the world. We destroyed most of Saddam's stockpile, but our government has dragged its feet about admitting it. Bush knew there was no WMD, because our own military destroyed most of it in covert aerial and land demolitions operations inside Iraq at the end of the First Gulf War.