They did find some depleted stocks left over from the first Gulf War and the time right after that. It is certainly the case that the Saddam government had an active chemical weapons program at one point. It seems to be have decimated by the first Gulf War and subsequent sanctions. The program itself seems to have been abandoned (which sources had told us), though I've no doubt that Saddam would have re-instituted it had he been given the chance.
So when right-wing apologists say "they were found", they mean that there were remains of old weaponry found and caches had been set up long ago. Did they find caches? Yes, they did. Did they find any evidence of an active program or any caches of chemical weapons that could have been used in a current conflict? No, they didn't. The Bush administration harped on about chemical weapons programs that were an active, building threat. They talked about dirty bombs. They said they "knew where they were". All of those things were utterly false. Judah On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > What weapons? Or did the Iraq study commission, the British house of > parliament special committee, etc etc. lie about that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331730 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
