Why the world did not know about WMD in Iraq

[mrclose]

While I am no big fan of Any of the Bushes .. I have to say that I always knew that George W. Bush was right on this!

After U.S. Central Command called on us to help transport, from Iraq, enough yellowcake uranium to make several atomic bombs stored at Saddam’s nuclear weapons complex, I realized why neither the Pentagon nor the White House advertised the presence of this WMD precursor: safety and security.

Before the U.S. military moved in to secure the facility after the 2003 invasion, looters had been there first. Even though the universally recognized yellow-and-black radioactivity warnings were posted on the bunkers, locals had ripped open the storage areas and stolen casks of yellowcake with many sickened as a result. More importantly, we did not want the insurgents alerted to the exposed stockpile as they might attack the facility.

This is also why the George W. Bush administration did not crow about the approximately 5,000 chemical munitions that U.S. forces uncovered throughout Iraq, as recently reported by the New York Times. That is a serious quantity of WMD, by any standard. Interestingly, the Bush team could have diluted near-uniform shock at the failure to find WMD by highlighting these discoveries instead of allowing the narrative we all know to solidify: “no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq found except a few dozen old, mustard-gas artillery shells left over from the 1980s Iran-Iraq War.”


The continued possession by Iraq of approximately 5,000 chemical warheads undiscovered after almost eight years of aggressive UN inspections along with the existence of enough yellowcake uranium to make 14 or so nuclear bombs with technology that the Iranians and Libyans already possessed calls for a new coda to replace “Bush lied, people died.” Certainly, we should look to the reinstatement of a principle justification for the American invasion of Iraq.

http://townhall.com/columnists/carterandress/2014/11/18/why-the-world-did-not-know-about-wmd-in-iraq-n1920136/page/full

[obumazombie]

A lot of libs in leadership had the security briefings to know this. But they were disloyal and traitorous with a strategy to hurt conservatives while aiding and abetting the enemy. A lot of this was outlined in the Sean Hannity book. He got ahold of a point paper from a top lib leader that outlined the whole compaign. To libs, power at home is more valuable to them than strength over our enemies.

[txradioguy]

This would have been a great article to have out there ten years ago.

[DefiantSix]

This would have been a great article to have out there ten years ago.

It wouldn't have served the Democrats'/Media's purposes to let this out 10 years ago.

[txradioguy]

It wouldn't have served the Democrats'/Media's purposes to let this out 10 years ago.

All the more reason that the Bush White Hosue should have released this info.  Instead for some reason they made the conscious decision to not fight back in the face of very explicit lies and factually inacccurate reports that were being put out by the MSM and Dems to the public.

[DumbAss Tanker]

As I recall, their reasons were that these were old weapon stocks, not the new production which was a lot of the rationale for the invasion, and they felt bringing up the old weapons (More or less already known about, at least in strategic circles) would therefore tend to look like they were making too big a stretch after all the hype about new production.  Like the rest of you, I too think that was a big mistake.