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<blockquote data-quote="Panin" data-source="post: 1432661" data-attributes="member: 52431"><p>From <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/15/american-forces-found-5000-chemical-weap" target="_blank">Reason Magazine</a>:<em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Why didn't the government reveal their existence? Possibly because they were embarrassed that they were wrong, or perhaps because in some cases the U.S. and some of its Western allies had played a role in designing or creating the weapons in the first place:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Participants in the chemical weapons discoveries said the United States suppressed knowledge of finds for multiple reasons, including that the government bristled at further acknowledgment it had been wrong. “They needed something to say that after Sept. 11 Saddam used chemical rounds,” Mr. Lampier said. “And all of this was from the pre-1991 era.”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to <strong>have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panin, post: 1432661, member: 52431"] From [URL='http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/15/american-forces-found-5000-chemical-weap']Reason Magazine[/URL]:[I] Why didn't the government reveal their existence? Possibly because they were embarrassed that they were wrong, or perhaps because in some cases the U.S. and some of its Western allies had played a role in designing or creating the weapons in the first place: Participants in the chemical weapons discoveries said the United States suppressed knowledge of finds for multiple reasons, including that the government bristled at further acknowledgment it had been wrong. “They needed something to say that after Sept. 11 Saddam used chemical rounds,” Mr. Lampier said. “And all of this was from the pre-1991 era.” Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to [B]have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.[/B][/I] [/QUOTE]
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