Remember how the left (and that means much/most of the media) – told us that no WMDs were found in Iraq?
Hmm… ISIS storms a complex with reserves of Mustard Gas + sarin… by every sensible definition – those are … wait for it… WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
From the Telegraph article…
The jihadist group bringing terror to Iraq overran a Saddam Hussein chemical weapons complex on Thursday, gaining access to disused stores of hundreds of tonnes of potentially deadly poisons including mustard gas and sarin.
Isis invaded the al-Muthanna mega-facility 60 miles north of Baghdad in a rapid takeover that the US government said was a matter of concern.
The facility was notorious in the 1980s and 1990s as the locus of Saddam’s industrial scale efforts to develop a chemical weapons development programme.
Isis has shown ambitions to seize and use chemical weapons in Syria leading experts to warn last night that the group could turn to improvised weapons to carry out a deadly attack in Iraq.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commander of Britain’s chemical weapons regiment, said that al-Muthanna has large stores of weaponized and bulk mustard gas and sarin, most of which has been put beyond ready use in concrete stores.
ok – even if it’s put in concrete – that indicated that sarin + mustard gas were found when we went into Iraq – doesn’t it? ie, WMDs by any sensible definition – WERE FOUND!!!
What – you don’t believe me about the definition??
Source: Wikipedia article on WMDs
United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, which defined the systems which Iraq was required to abandon:
“Nuclear weapons or nuclear-weapons-usable material or any sub-systems or components or any research, development, support or manufacturing facilities relating to [nuclear weapons].
Chemical and biological weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research,development,support and manufacturing facilities.
Ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometres and related major parts, and repair and production facilities.”
See… Chemical and biological weapons – right there – banned by the UN as WMDs – Saddam had TONS AND TONS AND TONS of them.. and yet the media continues with the “no WMDs found in Iraq” – what a total crock!