This is basically about abandoned Western-made WMDs in Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=1 … "The discoveries did not support the invasion rationale"
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So, on top of the Bush gang's lying about active WMDs to start a war, they suppressed the story of inactives found, hurting their own troops
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As for the part about the US shafting their own troops, that's been repeatedly done before, exposing them to nuclear weapon testing & more.
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“I felt like a guinea pig.” “Wounds that never happened from stuff that didn’t exist.” “They gave us some creams and sent us home.”
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For all the stars & stripes bravado, practically every US gov at war has treated it's own troops as guinea pigs, let alone local populations
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"As the US prepared to withdraw, old stocks were still circulating. The compound, never entombed, is now controlled by the Islamic State."
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Lastly, the NYT may have been calamitously dodgy with the truth on Iraq in the past, but @cjchivers is the best there is in his field.
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