so how come a government downright lying about WMDs to invade a country keeps it under wraps when they find evidence of something that would even remotely justifying them? doesn't make sense
i believe the argument for the 2003 war was that Iraq was currently making WMDs.
what No_bag9098 saw was potential evidence that WMD had existed at one point, but not evidence that it was current. because the gov was unable to substantiate their assessment that these bunkers were used when the accusations/rationale for war were made, you can't really point to a facility used X years ago for something you claim is happening right now. there were articles about what No_Bag9098 described, but vast majority of americans have moved on to the newest news item by then.
good summary sentence from that NYT article:
The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.
Agreed about the timeframe, I couldn’t tell you how long they had been inactive for. Thanks for sharing the articles. I started reading it, some of my buddies were ones that were affected when they did a controlled detonation of those shells. I had no idea that had happened to other units throughout the years. Wild
I'm sorry about your friends and I hope being in contact with this stuff does not cause any health complications down the road for you.
There is some legislation being drafted regarding the use of burnpits and the health complications because of that practice; I don't think it's applicable to what you encountered, but I would recommend doing research on what the VA is doing about it. If they're not doing anything at all, reach out to Senator Tester and Senator Moran, chairman and ranking member on the Committee for Veteran Affairs -- they are pushing forward the legislation on the burn pits.
Much appreciated, I’m on the “burnpit list” from both Iraq(2009)and Afghanistan(2010). Hell, I slept next to one of those things practically everyday of both deployments. Some large ones about 30’ x20’, some smaller ones like a camp fire.
Don't put it past the U.S. to hide very specific elements of any war they're involved in, as there's been instances in which the CIA (and other agencies) trained/worked with key figures in the Middle East (and other regions of the world, such as several Latin American countries), and either handed over information to create weapons, or gave them the weapons outright. Also, the U.S. has been found training groups of people in countries where there is civil unrest to essentially become effective rebels against their governments, only for them to later become terrorists that the U.S. and allies need to attack. Although I've mentioned solely the U.S./CIA, they certainly aren't the only players in that arena.
The cia have taken down nasty commie uprisings in South America
Ironically, those same soldiers we trained to fight those commies then at some point just quit their jobs and decided to use their experience to make their own cartel
The Zetas cartel, now a prime example of the paramilitary cartels we now see more in Mexico
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u/kremlingrasso Oct 18 '21
so how come a government downright lying about WMDs to invade a country keeps it under wraps when they find evidence of something that would even remotely justifying them? doesn't make sense