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BAGHDAD (AP) — Britain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what's left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday.
The British Defense Ministry will start training Iraqi technical and medical workers this year, an embassy statement said. The teams will work to safely destroy remnants of munitions and chemical warfare agents left over from Saddam's regime. He was overthrown in 2003 following an American-led invasion.
Saddam stored the chemical weapons near population centers so that he could access them quickly, despite the danger to his civilian population.
Most of Iraq's chemical weapons were destroyed by military forces in 1991 during the first Gulf War or by U.N. inspectors after the fighting. The inspections halted just before the invasion.
Iraq is a party to the U.N. Chemical Weapons Convention and must get rid of the remaining material, according to terms of the pact.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Uh -- it took twenty years to get around to this?
Someone has frantically been shining a spotlight on alleged "chemical weapons" in the Middle East again...
Of course with no ulterior motive...
Romney visit-without-portfolio -- a political candidate influencing foreign policy decisions to gain the votes of a tiny pressure group back home.
All a coincidence, I'm sure.
Bush's main problem was he didn't hit that home. Everyone knew there were weapons there. Bush senior started the inspections and Clinton attacked Iraq to keep them going. No liberal had a problem with that. It was only when Bush did something about it after 27 UN resolutions did the liberals get goofy (or goofier). Saddam knew they were empty threats and was going to start up again.
And the 2nd war went well. It wasn't until after we knocked him out did our lame allies drop out at the first sign of blood. If we had a stronger coalition, Iraq would be in much better shape.
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Party.
Boy wait until the reporters get a hold of this. This is going to be huge. Can you imagine? All that bad press, and there really were 'weapons of mass destruction". Some one is going to have egg on their face.
Oh, they already know? Then why aren't.....yeah, I know.
Every liberal retard bitches that there were no WMD and guess what? The U.S wasn't the only country that knew they were there. Ask the families of the people Hussein killed with chemical weapons. Not a popular war, but also not started under false pretenses.
All a coincidence, I'm sure.
8/01/2012 12:39:00 AM
and your point is?
Please all of the people who support the war put your money where your mouth is and support the war by enlightenment in the Armed Services. Stop talking start doing. USA .....USA......USA
How about ill-advised imperialism?
Not to split hairs, because I get your point, but the Associated Press IS U.S. media...
Democrats, erase them from history, they do more harm than any other political party we've ever elected.This is the worst they have ever been and will continue to destroy our country if we don't get rid of them.Our fathers would roll over in their graves if they saw what they fought for today.
I wonder how many more of Saddam's WMDs will be found in Syria once Al-Assad falls? Just sayin'.
I KNEW IT !
Everybody knew Saddam used chemical weapons to slaughter Kurds. But those are still not WMD's. Just small-scale chemical munitions.
This disgusts me.
All these people shaming the name of GW, calling him a liar when it was common military knowledge that most of the active WMD's were moved into Syria. Who are now using them on their own people!
Now, 19 years later, they are admitting that there IS STILL a stockpile of chemical weapons in Iraq?!?!?
I just don't get it...I hate this world sometimes.
Several years ago Israeli intelligence revealed that Iraq's WMDs were handed over to Syria for safekeeping. It's what happened while the UN was making Bush cock around waiting for 'permission.'
It's common knowledge that he had chemical weapons. He did use them against Iran! I backed Bush all the way but after sitting in that fucking desert for 6 months looking into empty hanger bays and bunkers, I gotta tell you it pissed me off!
Now, 19 years later, they are admitting that there IS STILL a stockpile of chemical weapons in Iraq?!?!?
I just don't get it...I hate this world sometimes.
8/01/2012 01:38:00 PM
Don't hate the world, hate the media, hate the career politicians, hate the lawyers, hate the billionaires that pull the strings of those puppets, hate the criminals and hate the Hollywood narcissist that tells the simple masses what to think.
Hate is under rated. Use it as a tool to make a better world.
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