Saddam did have WMD's-----he just did not have fission bombs. You have been
"hearing things" again-------to you actually converse with your auditory
hallucinations?. Saddam had biologicals and nitrogen mustard gas and the PROOF OF THE PUDDING is that he did KILL MASSIVELY------the will to,
combined with the ability to MURDER MASSIVELY is THE ULTIMATE
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION---------having a million stinking sluts
to support such actions with ULULATING JOY is also a weapon of mass
destruction. Isis now has weapons of mass destruction ------the sluts
are going there
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CIA's Final report: No WMD found in Iraq
WASHINGTON — In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.
After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted,” wrote Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, in an addendum to the final report he issued last fall."
CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq
More bullshit diversionary propaganda:
Iraqi chemical weapons program
In violation of the
Geneva Protocol of 1925, the
Iraqi Army initiated two failed (1970–1974, 1974–1978) and one successful (1978–1991) offensive
chemical weapons (CW) programs.
[1] President Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) pursued the most extensive chemical program during the
Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), when he waged
chemical warfare against his foe. He also used chemicals in 1988 in the
Al-Anfal Campaign against his civilian
Kurdish population and during a
popular uprising in the south in 1991.
Although efforts to acquire chemical weapons dated back to the early 1960s (pre-dating Hussein's regime), the Iraqis did not have stockpiles at the outbreak of the war with Iran in 1980. But in time, they began to develop an intensive research program to produce and store chemical weapons and used the war fields to test and perfect their chemical warfare prowess. Thus, as the war continued, Iraq’s chemical warfare program expanded rapidly.
According to Iraq, while the majority of its
mustard gas was of 90–95% purity, it struggled to consistently produce nerve agents of high purity. The average purity of its
tabun was 50–60%; production of it was abandoned in 1986 in favour of concentrating on
sarin. Average quality of sarin and related products was in the range of 45–60% - sufficient for battle-field use in the Iran-Iraq war, but not for long-term storage. Efforts after the Iran-Iraq war to develop
VX were relatively unsuccessful, with purity of 18–41% considered insufficient for weaponization.
[2]
Iraq’s biological warfare development pursued a similar course, but by the time Iraqis were testing biological warheads (containing
anthrax and
botulinum toxin) in Iraq’s deserts, the war had come to an end
Persian Gulf War
Shortly after the fighting between Iraq and Coalition Forces in the
Persian Gulf War ended in February 1991, reports circulated that Saddam was using chemical agents against Kurds and Shiite Muslims. The United States intercepted a message ordering the use of chemical weapons against the cities of
Najaf and
Karbala. U.S. President
George H. W. Bush’s response was that such use of chemical weapons would result in air strikes against the Iraqi military organization using the chemicals.
[13][14]
List of known Iraqi CW uses
The Iran-Iraq War ended in August 1988. By that time, according to the
Iraq Survey Group Final Report,
[15] seven UN specialist missions had documented repeated use of chemicals in the war. According to Iraq itself, it consumed almost 19,500 chemical bombs, over 54,000 chemical artillery shells and 27,000 short-range chemical rockets between 1983 and 1988. Iraq declared it consumed about 1,800 tons of mustard gas, 140 tons of Tabun, and over 600 tons of Sarin. Almost two-thirds of the CW weapons were used in the last 18 months of the war.
Examples of CW use by Iraq include the following from the
Final Report. (These are selected uses only. Numerous other smaller scale CW attacks occurred.)
Use in the Iran–Iraq War, 1983–1988
- August 1983: Haij Umran – Mustard, fewer than 100 Iranian/Kurdish casualties
- October–November 1983: Panjwin – Mustard, 3,000 Iranian/Kurdish casualties
- February–March 1984: Majnoon Island – Mustard, 2,500 Iranian casualties
- March 1984: al-Basrah – Tabun, 50–100 Iranian casualties
- March 1985: Hawizah Marsh – Mustard and Tabun, 3,000 Iranian casualties
- February 1986: al-Faw – Mustard and Tabun, 8,000 to 10,000 Iranian casualties
- December 1986: Um ar-Rasas – Mustard, 1,000s Iranian casualties
- April 1987: al-Basrah – Mustard and Tabun, 5,000 Iranian casualties
- October 1987: Sumar/Mehran – Mustard and nerve agent, 3,000 Iranian casualties
- March 1988: Halabjah and Kurdish area – Mustard and nerve agent, 1,000s Kurdish/Iranian casualties
- April 1988: al-Faw – Mustard and nerve agent, 1,000s Iranian casualties
- May 1988: Fish Lake – Mustard and nerve agent, 100s or 1,000s Iranian casualties
- June 1988: Majnoon Island – Mustard and nerve agent, 100s or 1,000s Iranian casualties
- July 1988: South-central border – Mustard and nerve agent, 100s or 1,000s Iranian casualties
Use at Halabja, 1988
Main articles:
Halabja poison gas attack and
Sardasht, West Azerbaijan
On
March 16, 1988, the Halabja massacre occurred. The Iraqi army hit residential areas with sarin gas and the roads leading out of the city with mustard gas the day after. Most of the victims died within minutes after bombing and those who survived and tried to leave the city the following day were injured when they passed contaminated roads. Civilians in residential areas in western Iran such as Noodsheh, Ghaleji, and Marivan were bombarded with nerve gas as well. The efforts of local
health care centers played a significant role in decreasing the number of mortalities.
Use in Southern Iraq against the Popular Uprising, 1991
- March 1991: an-Najaf - Karbala area — Nerve agent & CS, Shi’a casualties not known.