The NY Times is reporting it, and they have it well documented.
The reason for the coverup, which BTW was pretty lousy, since reports of this trickled out and were seized on by my side for years, was that a) it wasn’t an active program, these were abandoned weapons, so it didn’t really bolster the case for war, and b) because they are assholes who put the troops in danger by hiding the risks from them.
None of this should be surprising, since the UN itself said Iraq had chemical weapons that had not been destroyed. It would be truly stupid to think that Saddam went ahead and destroyed them in secret. Now we know that he just dropped the program and no one took any precautions to maintain or dispose of the weapons. THey were just abandoned, and to hell with the Iraqi people and the local environment. He was such a dick.
Did you cross-post this to Bricker’s thread in support of voter suppression? He’s a great fan of Democracy, and I don’t know how you can get an example of pure local democracy better than a mob lynching by majority rule. I’d like to send the Ilk Bus to rescue Ben Marin if he hasn’t been killed yet, but we need Bricker to confirm that Ben’s insistence on defying the de facto local authorities is “amoral.”
What makes the Salon article particularly galling is that to the credit of the Obama administration, the military is now acknowledging that troops were exposed to chemical weapons and need medical treatment. While it may seem weird that there were WMD in Iraq and the Bush administration covered it up while the current administration admitted it’s true, it’s the truth.
Bush was never known for being fond of the troops, he enjoyed using them as scenery and props, but once they were out of view, they could fuck off for all his administration cared.
I think Bush’s affection for the troops was genuine. After all, it was the only place he could get love for most of his Presidency.
But Bush was also an extremely bad manager of the government. Now Rummy, I’m pretty sure he didn’t give a shit about the troops and they returned his disdain in spades.
Here is the lovely Kimberly Giilfoyle with her voting advice to young women.
“The Five” co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said Tuesday that young women should excuse themselves from voting in the upcoming midterm elections because they don’t share the same “life experience” as older women and should just go back to playing around on Tinder and Match.com.
“It’s the same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea,” Guilfoyle said. “They don’t get it!”
Going back to the school assembly, can you imagine the look on the principal’s face when Young went on to tell the students that same-sex marriage was like two bulls mating? I’m thinking some school speaking engagements are in the process of being cancelled.
I hate that motherfucker with a raging passion. A crude, rude, racist bully who makes no secret of being on the take, accepting a paycheck for doing pretty much nothing. The fucking morons who have taken over my beloved Alaska will elect him again despite all of it, because they think he has some value to the state. I once met him by accident in his wife’s hometown of Fort Yukon, AK. It was a forced meeting, as I was there on business at the radar site on the edge of town and he and his wife were also out there doing their laundry at government expense. I refused to shake hands with him or have my photo taken with the cocksucker, despite his wife’s urging to “get your picture taken with Papa!” He made some off-color comments about the “liberals in Washington”. I just wanted to punch him in the balls. Fucking asshole.