No, the real question is *Did the US Furnish the Gas [used in weapons in Iraq]? * To which the answer is No.
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And it was not covered up - by the time the WMDs were discovered the MSM had settled too firmly on the “Iraq did not have any WMD” story to cover anything else.
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The MSM settled on the “Iraq did not have any WMD programs” story because it is true.
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No, actually the story “Iraq did not have any WMD” is false, and has been demonstrated to be false. Since this is GQ, I will leave it at that.
You’re conspicuously misstating what I wrote. I stated that the media embraced the story that Iraq had no WMD programs, which is what the CIA concluded in 2004. There was acknowledgment of derelict weapons being found in various locations (and sometimes in notable quantities) that were not part of any organized, active weapons program. Your response, therefore, is not accurate in reflecting what I wrote.
Since this is GQ, would you like me to cite contemporaneous news stories from the MSM that state that derelict weapons were found, and accurately described as such?
Well, the OP has been answered–the US did not furnish the gas.
As for what was found, Bush and Cheney were still saying–many years later–that Iraq had the ability and intent to make WMD, and a history of using them, and that was what justified the invasion.
I sat through a many-hours long interview with Dick Cheney a couple years ago. His story was “ability, intent, history.” No mention of remnant stocks.