Did the US really find WMD in Iraq?
The 500+ shells of chemical weapons were found over a lengthy period of time in Iraq since the Bush Administration announced the search turned up nothing in 2003. Although they are not at full strength, they are still pretty lethal. At full strength, one of these shells has been known to kill as many as 5,000. The findings remained classified until a Republican Senator declassified some of the report a weeks ago. There’s a lot more to the story that hasn’t been released as well. You may hear libs downplay the report – this is nothing new. It is important because we can quote Saddam telling weapons inspectors that he no longer had WMD caches. Libs will say that the ones found were depleted or date back before 1991, hoping that it means something to their anti-war bias. However, both are weak arguments. Saddam was not in a position to possess ANY chemical weapons, regardless of strength. To say those weren’t the ones we were looking for is kind of silly.
