Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

7 comments:

Robin said...

Sir, President Bush stoically allowed people to say he lied because there were so many warehouses full of chemical weapons that we couldn't guard it all. To keep our enemies from getting them the president took a HEAT round to the chest for his country. I am sure he wanted to protect our troops but couldn't without endangering the rest of the us. That is patriotism and honor.
Sincerely, Robin MAJ, MI, USA(R)

rexxhead said...

There's the clue: "heavily redacted intelligence documents". As one Washington comedian quipped: "We KNOW Saddam has chemical weapons! We have the receipts!"

Sure, Saddam had --some-- WMDs. Does it make a difference that they were all marked "made in USA"?

Jeff Wood said...

A serious, serious scandal.

I seem to remember that there was some mention in the Press of our British forces finding and dealing with a few chemical shells - no mention of injuries - but no further report surfaced.

Mind you, I have since left Britain, so may have missed any follow-up.

Curtis said...

So. Does this mean that we are to now jump on the, "Boy, I am sure glad we destroyed Iraq and installed another puppet government... that we couldn't keep, and whose internal divisions allowed ISIS-IS-ISIL-Al Qaeda- Flavor of the day into Iraq!"

By the way, did we ever find that long train of WMD! that left Iraq?

Meh. So what. Saddam had WMD! Hell, our own cops have WMD!

hazmat said...

I remember an article from that bastion of journalistic wholesomeness, MSNBC, about them finding artillery shells filled with mustard agent from 2005 I believe. The reason I remember this? An EOD friend of mine was quoted by them extensively in the article. Haven't seen or heard of it since, and this brings that issue back, front and center.

Anonymous said...

My local National Guard unit was activated during Gulf War 1. It is a heavy transportation unit and they had a convoy of about 2 dozen trucks in a convoy. While they were passing by the Khamisyah ammo dump, some munitions were being destroyed by blowing them up. Unfortunately the stuff being exploded were full of SARIN NERVE GAS. Check out KHAMISYAH online and you will notice that some 250,000 allied troops were exposed to the SARIN NERVE GAS. Of the 2 dozen local NG truck drivers, 12 are already DEAD, 2 from early age heart attacks and 10 from BRAIN CANCER. I personally know 3 of the surviving members of this convoy who are all showing signs of early-stage brain cancer. One of them lives only 2 doors away from me so I have seen his gradual decline over the past couple of years. When I hear that old song about BOOSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED, I know that he didn't lie and with some 250,000 of OUR troops exposed, more of them will eventually die from the exposure to the "Non Existant" Chemical Weapons. (Mike, one of them lives between me and my neighbor Jim Crazy Snake Blake).

Anonymous said...

It will be dropped down the Memory Hole and kept way from the sight of the public until such time as it is politically expedient for the Left and MINITRU to wave the bloody shirt, and find some way to blame Bush II, Bush 1, Reagan, maybe Nixon or Eisenhower, for the situation. Then it will be dropped back down the Memory Hole and the next day it will be back to "BUSH LIED ABOUT WMD, NO BLOOD FOR OIL!!!!!!111 CHIMPY MCBUSHITLER KILLED TEN MILLION ARAB BABIES FOR OIL AND A LIE ABOUT POISON GAS!!!!1"

We have always been at war with Eurasia. This week Big Brother has raised the chocolate ration from thirty grams to twenty grams. And stop complaining about the sawdust in the bread, it is the best sawdust American sawmills can produce.