Tuesday, September 8, 2015

"How did ISIS get WMD if Saddam had none and Assad destroyed his?"

"German intelligence confirms Isis used mustard gas in Iraq"
German daily Bild reported on Monday that BND intelligence agents collected blood samples from Kurds who were injured in clashes with Isis. It quoted the BND chief, Gerhard Schindler, as saying that the agency has “information that IS used mustard gas in northern Iraq”.

US defense department spokeswoman Commander Elissa Smith said: “While we will not comment on intelligence or operational matters, let us be clear: any use by any party ... of a chemical as a weapon of any kind is an abhorrent act. “Given the alleged behavior of Isil and other such groups in the region, any such flagrant disregard for international standards and norms is reprehensible.”
Must be that global warming again, causing the condiment to go bad.

8 comments:

Third Coast said...

As everyone knows, President Waffles set a Red Line on the use of chemical weapons by Syria. It was then revealed that the media misquoted Waffles, as what he really said was that the World set the Red Line, not Him. Since Isis is not Syria, the World's Red Line does not apply. Nothing to see here. Move along.

bagoh20 said...

I suspect they used the Amazon portal.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I wish ;)

edutcher said...

Golly, you don't suppose Dubya was right?

Amartel said...

Bush agreed with the conclusions of the committee that found there were no WMD. But then, he wasn't one to linger and dwell and re-frame the findings on an issue that, in his mind, was one of several reasons for the invasion of Iraq. Unlike the MSM which conducted a massive enterprise to re-frame WMD as the central, and false, reason for the invasion. And all the lock-step Dems who had enthusiastically talked up WMD in Iraq and the imminent threat and promptly used the MSM re-framing as an excuse to be shocked, SHOCKED, that they had been MISLED into ENDLESS WAR.

Amartel said...

Given the media/establishment effort that went into promoting WMD as the central and false basis for the Iraq Invasion, in order to undermine the War and protect Dems, I would not be at all surprised if those WMDs were simply redistributed to Iran and Syria. There was certainly enough time during the build up to the war to remove these items to safe locations in "friendly" hands.

edutcher said...

A lot of evidence says some were trucked out by the Russkies the night before the roof fell in.

Others were hidden and later discovered by IS.

Methadras said...

Iraq had a lot of WMD. Believe me when I tell you this. I was there. I saw a lot of it.