No they didn’t lie about it.
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My base in Iraq was the power plant that supplied this research facility.
View of the base, I believe overlooking the Ammo Supply Point, prior to it being built up. (Finding pics on net). The two smokestacks on the left power two towers that head out across the Euphrates to power the WMD Research Lab… absolutely no disputing this, UN recognized it as such prior to you hitting puberty. No stupid arguments and pot smoking yourself into denial with your syncophants, it simply is. The other two towers supplies electricity to two other towers, for the rest of the country. Note the different color of the pollution from the power plant stacks, and note
only two of the four are even working. The place was powered by burning chairs and goats… whatever the hell the ministry of electrity could lay their hands on… I never found any evidence of sabotage… I’ve the only soldier who ever went over every square inch of that place, and most closely engaged the workers… I had a bum knee and had been stuck doing base security one too many damn times, mist guys were scared of that place. The place was dying from natural wear and tear, one too many duct tape fixes. We ended up building a smaller natural gas plant a bit off to the right of this picture to compensate. He built the place elevated on the river, like a doughnut… inside as flat and low as the flood plane. Its why your looking down.
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Thats the remains of some old WMD crap, I’m guessing Nuclear, cause from what I understand, Biological and Chemical production can more or less be done in a basement with the mechanical aptitude of a boiler mechanic. It is after all a WW1 tech that even the poorest countries could create.
This is the helipad the UN Weapon Inspector Teams landed on at my base, in order to access that silly site:
That is a junkyard, from the power plant. About half of it. Green trees in the background in the Euphrates River.
As soon as they landed, literally as soon, they would of confronted a hugh industrial wasteland, surrounded by possible candidates for WMD production. Same in a few other places around base, outside the base (Iraqis love having junk and scrap placed just about anywhere, unwalled piling up, with kids playing in it.)
The plans for building nuclear weapons was found under the lawn of the apartment complex in Iskandariya where some of the WMD scientist lived. Lots of Chemical shells have been found around Iraq, which look largely neglected since the 90s. This research base had a aweful amount of C-4 in it. The troops who first took it found massive amounts of C-4, and had to push on. Next unit pulling in (either one day or three days later) found the C-4 missing. That is used to detonate not just nuked, but WMD in general. The scientists still lived nearby all the years later… that C4 laid the basis for the Triangle of Death, as the locals had high grade military explosives. This helped eventually to cause for The Surge in 2007 to be called, due to the difficulty in the area sucked troops that otherwise would of been closer to Baghdad and Falluja.
Literally anything in that country industrial scrap wise could of been used produce chemical and biological weapons. It isn’t that sophisticated of a enterprise, why even terrorists can pull off crude chlorine attacks.
WMD materials found all over Iraq. Scientists still in place, power grid of the God forsaken plant directly powered these research labs. These labs still had massive C4 stockpiles. Local scientists squirreled away nuclear data. The research base had a area the size of Delaware or Rhode Island.
These “scientist” only searched 6 weeks, then everything was dropped. It would take at least a day to swab everything in that junk yard alone if on a team, before moving on to the next sites. Who the Fuck even knows out deep in the desert. We found WMD stockpiles (old) in random spots all over the country. It costs next to nothing to hide some. This area wasn’t well search… Fuck, the road to the place had weapons such as artillery shells all along it to this base (Route Noname). It wasn’t explored beyond what you could see while driving on the road. Shit could of been anywhere. Guaranteed a lot of odd random stuff was merely by the random accidental chaos that is Iraq, even if Saddam didn’t intend it… after the collapse of authority, shit scattered and kept getting moved by people who would them die, their stockpiles grabbed by some guy with a donkey, moved to some weeds in a ditch covered with dirt… found later on by some kid playing, telling his dad and his uncle claims it, etc… complete chaos. No way in hell you can viably claim there was none, certainly not beyond a doubt as there was some, including clear intent to carry on by maintaining that WMD research facility, scientists and plans nearby, and enough C4 to trigger it all.
The question isn’t if Bush lied… he didn’t. It would s if thus was a justified Cause of War. The claims there was no WMD is mostly guided by the political necessity of the left to insist there is no evidence despite the facts. Its clear some shit was going on, and Saddam certainly didn’t help the situation by acting innocent. Its much better to ask should a country he invaded for being belligerent with WMD, and a history if using them? Especially after a major terrorist even that switched many nations international priorities to stomp out this brand of terrorism and likely nations they could seek shelter so as to continue.
Its remarkable how little we’ve explored this philosophically.
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