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<blockquote data-quote="Panin" data-source="post: 1428277" data-attributes="member: 52431"><p>old & av8r, you really need to get over the name calling. The NYT article is quite damning to the previous administration, and the US military leadership in Iraq.</p><p></p><p>The whole thing was covered up. The end of the NYT article says:</p><p></p><p><em>The United States had invaded Iraq to reduce the risk of the weapons of mass destruction that it presumed Mr. Hussein still possessed. And after years of encountering and handling Iraq’s old chemical arms, it had retroactively informed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2009 that it had recovered more than 4,500 chemical weapons.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>But it had not shared this data publicly. And as it prepared to withdraw, old stocks set loose after the invasion were still circulating. Al Muthanna had still not been cleaned up.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Finding, safeguarding and destroying these weapons was to be the responsibility of Iraq’s government.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Iraq took initial steps to fulfill its obligations. It drafted a plan to entomb the contaminated bunkers on Al Muthanna, which still held remnant chemical stocks, in concrete.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>When three journalists from The Times visited Al Muthanna in 2013, a knot of Iraqi police officers and soldiers guarded the entrance. Two contaminated bunkers — one containing cyanide precursors and old sarin rockets — loomed behind. The area where Marines had found mustard shells in 2008 was out of sight, shielded by scrub and shimmering heat.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>The Iraqi troops who stood at that entrance are no longer there. The compound, never entombed, is now controlled by the Islamic State.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panin, post: 1428277, member: 52431"] old & av8r, you really need to get over the name calling. The NYT article is quite damning to the previous administration, and the US military leadership in Iraq. The whole thing was covered up. The end of the NYT article says: [I]The United States had invaded Iraq to reduce the risk of the weapons of mass destruction that it presumed Mr. Hussein still possessed. And after years of encountering and handling Iraq’s old chemical arms, it had retroactively informed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2009 that it had recovered more than 4,500 chemical weapons. But it had not shared this data publicly. And as it prepared to withdraw, old stocks set loose after the invasion were still circulating. Al Muthanna had still not been cleaned up. Finding, safeguarding and destroying these weapons was to be the responsibility of Iraq’s government. Iraq took initial steps to fulfill its obligations. It drafted a plan to entomb the contaminated bunkers on Al Muthanna, which still held remnant chemical stocks, in concrete. When three journalists from The Times visited Al Muthanna in 2013, a knot of Iraqi police officers and soldiers guarded the entrance. Two contaminated bunkers — one containing cyanide precursors and old sarin rockets — loomed behind. The area where Marines had found mustard shells in 2008 was out of sight, shielded by scrub and shimmering heat. The Iraqi troops who stood at that entrance are no longer there. The compound, never entombed, is now controlled by the Islamic State.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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