Whats the evidence that Iraq actually used chemical weapons?
We saw a lot of message traffic during the war that indicated this was going on. The troops were talking about alarms going off indicating that the CB (chemical/biological) agents were present. That was the key for me. When people tell me an M8 alarm (a mechanical device that measures the presence of gas) goes off, that’s not entirely persuasive. But if they say an M8 alarm went off and they did a 256-kit test (a field test for specific toxics) that showed positive for blister agents, that’s when I throw up the yellow flag. That’s when you know something was going on. But the Pentagon knocked down those reports during the war. Right. If anybody came up with any sample, any chemical munitions, it all went to the Joint Captured Material Exploitation Center, which was a black hole. People would give them data, and they would never get an answer back. They would be told it was on a “need-to-know” basis only. You’re saying it was kept secret. Why? Keeping it secret finessed the problem of t
