I suppose I could google it but I’ll ask here anyway.
Is there a link available that discusses where they found active WMD facilities in Iraq that would justify toppling the government, breaking the infrastructure, occupying the country not to mention killing a couple hundred thousand of Iraqis in the process?
Back when this stuff was recent history every supposed WMD facility touted by the war crowd didn’t really stand up to scrutiny.
Certainly nothing was found that matched the scale and rhetoric of prewar propaganda.
We have been lied to, we’re being lied to and we will continue to be lied to. This is the only sane position to take regarding our government.
Even the New York Times reported that WMD's were found in Iraq.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/03/world/middleeast/chemical-weapons-iraq-pentagon-secrets.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-intelligence-documents-on-chemical-weapons-found-in-iraq.htmlPlus that doesn't include what was shipped to Syria when we invaded. And again. Just because you aren't actively making it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Iraq still had enough to make the Western Front of WWI look like child's play.
And we hadn't made any chemical weapons since the 1969, yet we had absolute metric Revloads of the things in Meisau
@, Deseret*, Newport Chemical Depot
%, Blue Grass Army Depot
&, Johnston Island (from Okinawa in the 1960's)
# among others.
@- Meisau had the following:
Mustard (HD) Gas - 49 tons plus 5,779 8 Inch, and 43,660 155mm Artillery Shells.
GB (Sarin) - 47,735 tons plus 6,388 8 Inch, and 13,020 155mm Artillery Shells.
VX - 42,682 tons plus 14,519 155mm shells and 13,302 M55 Rockets.
* - Disposed of 54,453 projectiles of mustard gas and 7,593 tons of GB Nerve agent
& - 523 short tons of nerve agents GB (sarin) and VX
% -1,269 short tons (1,151 metric tons) of VX
# - 1,900 tons of VX, 150 tons of distilled mustard, and 10,450 tons of Sarin
And here's a map of estimates of what was in the US. As of October 2018, 90% of the chemical weapons stockpiles have already been destroyed at the sites marked with green checkmarks. Work is ongoing at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Sites to destroy the remainder 10%.
So you would say that our chemical stockpile was not a credible threat because we destroyed our manufacturing capability in 1969 ??