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ntagon finally admits over 600 Americans exposed to chemical
weapons in Iraq air ̂ | 11/7/2014 | Noah Rothman
ted on 11/07/2014 8:02:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
ombshell New York Times investigation revealed in mid-October
that hundreds of American soldiers were exposed to chemical weapons
while serving in Iraq.rse than that, the experiences of these
soldiers was covered up by Defense officials during the Bush and
Obama eras. Today, the Pentagon is finally acknowledging
t American servicemen and women did suffer exposure to chemical
agents while serving in Iraq.
merican troops were exposed to chemical weapons multiple times
in the years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, while the
Pentagon kept their discoveries of thepired or degraded weapons
secret from investigators, fellow soldiers, and military doctors,
according to a published report, ” The Times reported in October
.
The New York Times reported late Tuesday that American troops
reported finding approximately 5,000 chemical warheads, shells, or
aviation bombs inthe years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On
at least six occasions, soldiers were wounded by those weapons,
which had been manufactured before1991. In all, the paper reported
that 17 U.S. soldiers and seven Iraqi police officers were exposed
to chemical agents during the war. The U.S.government said its
number was slightly higher, but did not release a specific
figure.
s stellar reporting finally generated some acknowledgment from
the Pentagon. On Friday, the Department of Defense conceded that,
since 2003, more than 600merican soldiers have been exposed to
chemical warfare agents in Iraq.
aving not acted for years on that data, the Pentagon says it
will now expand outreach to veterans, ” The Times reported. “ One
first step, officials said, includes a toll-e national telephone
hotline [1-800-497-6261] for service members and veterans to report
potential exposures and seek medical evaluation or care. ”
s report suggests that Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel ’ s “ prodding ”
of officials to reexamine post-deployment debriefing reports
yielded a trove of information about thediers who believed they had
been exposed to chemical weapons in Iraq.
surprisingly, those veterans who did suffer the effects of
exposure are not impressed by the Pentagon ’ s belated honesty.
s too little, too late, ” said one veteran who was exposed while
destroying Saddam Hussein-era chemical artillery shells in 2008. “
No one ever believed me. Theyre like, ‘ Oh, that never happened.
’”
other soldier told The Times on the condition of anonymity that
he was issued a “ gag order ” which legally forbade him from
discussing the chemical artillery hecovered in Iraq.
yond the tragedy of soldiers being exposed to chemical weapons
in Iraq is the absolute insult of allowing these service personnel
to return home to a country whereny though believed they were
making their experiences up. Some, like The Daily Beast ’ s Eli
Like , have alleged in their reporting that the decision to
notnowledge soldiers ’ exposures to pre-1991 chemical weapons was a
political determination made inside the Bush White House.
me of Lake ’ s sources suggest that the Bush administration was
simply not interested in re-litigating the WMD issue by 2006.
According to The Daily Beast, some inadministration found the
reappearance of WMD so vindicating that they wanted the former
president to deliver a press conference next to recovered
chemicalrheads while wearing a protective suit. That theatrical
idea was nixed not only because of the threat to Bush ’ s safety,
but because the White House had apparentlyermined that the WMD
argument had already been lost.
ere are too many outstanding questions about this incident to
not demand a thorough investigation. Upon the conclusion of an
independent inquiry, a formal apologyue to these soldiers who
suffered horrible injuries which their country could not
acknowledge.
PICS: Foreign Affairs ; Government ; News/Current Events ; War
on Terror YWORDS: chemicalweapons ; iraq ; pent agon ; wmd
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r own gov ’ t proves again to be our worst enemy.
osted on 11/07/2014 8:04:37 AM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the
Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)ost Reply |
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ybe we sold them the weapons. Wouldn ’ t be convenient for them
to be used against us would it? Seems to happen quite frequently
now.
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s isn ’ t possible. The TV told us over and over and over that “
BUSH LIED!!! ” .
osted on 11/07/2014 8:07:10 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it
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have 3 sons who served 5 tours in Iraq from 2003-2008.
eems like it would be helpful for the DoD to provide more
details as to the dates and locations for the potential exposure,
instead of just having an 800 # for peoplecall, if they think they
were exposed.
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POSSIBLE. Back when I worked at a newspaper, one of my editors
told me specifically that there were no WMDs in Iraq and that the
guys I had talked to (invate life, not ‘ professionally) that were
there and had handled them were a bunch of liars looking for
attention.
this story doesn ’ t even exist.
osted on 11/07/2014 8:09:31 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the
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s an obvious lie since the media and the LIB/DIMs have said
there were no chemical weapons there. This is insanity writ large.
There were no chemical weapons inq.
osted on 11/07/2014 8:39:09 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment
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member... we have Karl Rove to thank for this, too.
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hot air as no specifics on the agents that the troops were
exposed to.
osted on 11/07/2014 9:17:28 AM PST by SandRat (
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ink many libs simply can't wrap their heads around the fact that
Bush was right. Degraded or not, there were thousands of WMDs in
Iraq that weren't destroyed.
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e same editor that told me that ALSO told me, in the same
conversation no less, that the degraded WMDs he said that didn ’ t
exist to begin with, were no danger toyone.
hen I asked him if he ’ d put his kids in a room with them he
called me a right wing nut job that wants children dead.
‘ we ’ are the crazy ones. And the media, from local to
national, are FILLED top to bottom with these people. If people had
any idea how bad it really is, they
uld not spend one nanosecond of their lives consuming MSM
information. Because not one iota of it that sees print or video
isn’
t twisted beyond recognition.
he media tells you water is wet, stick your head in the bucket
and check.
posted on 11/07/2014 9:52:56 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the
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ex91B10
u are talking about a government that sent the USS Ronald Reagan
and its crew through the exhaust plum of three melting out nuclear
reactors. At the time all theanese could do was vent as the cores
were melting out of their RPV ’ s. The Reagan spent a few hours in
the plum and the lawsuit involving hundreds of sailors
ntinues.
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jus ta-hairya pe
m = plume
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Norm Lenhart
en th ough the offcial lib oracle, the New York Slimes, has
admitted Bush was right (but he was still wrong according to the
Slimes "logic"), look for this to be
pped down the memory hole.
e all the libs who supported Clinton when he passed the Saddam
removal act in 1998 (by any means necessary) and all the libs who
declared Hussein had WMDs-war, but then he didn't have them when we
invaded Iraq, this announcement by the Slimes will soon be a
non-event in liberal land.
posted on 11/07/2014 11:13:27 AM PST by driftless2 (a)ost Reply
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