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Post by confuzzled dude Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:51 am

The hefty eight-part report, largely based on interviews and highly redacted intelligence documents, said “17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers…were exposed to nerve or mustard agents” between 2004 and 2011.
At first blush, it may seem inconceivable that the United States, which had argued for an invasion of Iraq on the grounds that it was harboring weapons of mass destruction (an accusation that the UN weapons inspectors on the ground in Iraq prior to the American invasion/occupation had proven to be incorrect), would want to keep the discovery of WMDs in Iraq under wraps.

One reason for the hush-up, the report suggests, is that the United States was largely responsible for Iraq having chemical weapons in the first place.

“In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies,” it said.
http://guerillamedianetwork.com/us-troops-exposed-to-chemical-weapons-in-iraq-intel-docs/

*ahem* I will accept the fact beforehand that I'm buffoon, uneducated, butt-hurt & mental guy for bringing up west, extraneously, into these discussions.

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