Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Chemical Weapons, not WMD. Date:   10/15/2014 9:53:23 AM

Not WMD - they found old chemical weapons.  Deadly, just the same, but not the same as WMD.  There is a distinction between WMD and Chemical weapons.  Article is definitely worth a read.  Article rings true to what someone who was in a position to know, told me a few months ago.  The Army ended up procuring a German mobile chemical weapon lab, on an expedited basis to deal with this.  What disturbs me the most is the way that the Army failed to treat those that were affected.  Shameful. 

WMD, needing enriched uranium, is very different from chemical weapons.  They never found WMD, but they did find chemical weapons from Saddam's old chemical weapons programs, which he used against his citizens and in the War with Iran.  There was no indication that he was still producing them, but had them stockpiled in a number of places, some buried, as the article points out.