Photo Credit: ExaminerBy James Simpson.
The New York Times is now admitting that WMD always existed in Iraq, they were discovered many times, even injuring our soldiers, but the despicable leftists would crucify anyone who told the truth. So people lied to save their own skins. “Bush lied, people died,” as the slogan went. But the liars are, were and have always been the Left. Chief among them was presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. . . The entire episode is a disgraceful example of just how vicious, selfish and dishonest official Washington and its media minders can be.
Consider: back in the 1990s, both Bill and Hillary Clinton swore up and down that Saddam Hussein had WMD. John Kerry and other assorted Democrats followed suit. That was the narrative of official Washington. But when Bush opted to invade Iraq – not merely because of that threat, but for many other equally justifiable reasons as well – suddenly they all became scoffers at the whole notion. They began to beat the drum “Bush lied, people died” . . .
People should be in jail, but in the Left’s world they become heroes. Meanwhile, Americans died while Democrats lied – relentlessly doing everything in their power to disrupt the war and hobble Bush for strictly partisan reasons, while our armed forces were forced to deal with their rampant interference.
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Photo Credit: Tyler Hicks / The New York TimesReport: Thousands of Abandoned Chemical Weapons Found in Iraq from 2004 to 2011
By C. J. CHIVERS.
The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.
It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.
Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before.
He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.
The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.
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Bush lied, people died
By James Simpson.
In 2005, I wrote an article by that title. It was meant sarcastically. It has always been the Left that drives Americans into dangerous, deadly situations. And this time was no different. Before the Iraq war, official Washington, that is the entrenched political Left, was beating the drum over Saddam’s WMD program. Virtually every single prominent Democrat, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and many others, described in apocalyptic terms the danger Saddam posed with his WMD program. NOBODY believed Saddam was telling the truth when he claimed he no longer had a WMD program. Everyone, even the UN, believe it or not, made statements to the effect that he needed to fess up or go. So it was infuriating to see the Democrats flip like a swtich the minute G.W. Bush decided to do something about it. Suddenly it was all Bush’s fault. George W. Bush, i.e. “Chimpy Bushitler” according to leftists, the knuckle-dragging moron, suddenly became the Machiavellian genius who tricked the credulous, innocent Democrats into a war for WMD that suddenly never existed! And Saddam’s connection to 9-11? Oh perish the thought, thou fools!
Only the Left, with its practiced media allies could pull off such a fraud. And only the Left would continue to pump that narrative. Leftists lie. It is pretty much all they do and one of the few things they are actually accomplished at. So I wrote the following article. It is long but read every word. More facts in that article than any dozen from the New York Times or Washington Post. That is because it is based on facts, not an agenda, unlike the Post, Times and so many others whose facts must fit their agenda. I criticized Bush for many of the things he did. But he cannot be blamed for unilaterally suckering us into going to war. The Democrats share equal or more blame. And now, having utterly ruined our hard-won victories in Iraq, Obama can claim direct, personal and unitary responsibility for all those deaths and injuries being a horrific and pointless waste. Read on:
Bush Lied, People Died
That statement all by itself encapsulates the political Left’s modus operandi. It is at once deliberately provocative, crudely insulting and a calculated lie. Slogans like this are crafted for impact, not accuracy, and illustrate succinctly that the Left is never interested in facts, only results. It is one of the many reasons I find the American Left one of the most revolting and disingenuous movements in modern history, for these Leninist tactics shield the reality of a worldwide movement designed solely for its own advancement and whose 100 year history is steeped in blood, responsible for more death and oppressive misery than all the wars of history combined. This article is dedicated entirely to refuting the oft-repeated “Bush lied, people died” slander and should settle, for reasonable people at least, the debate over whether or not the Bush administration made the right choice in invading Iraq.
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NEW YORK – As the U.S. considers a response to what it calls a chemical weapon attack by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime that killed hundreds of civilians, reliable Middle Eastern sources say they have evidence the culprits actually were the rebel forces trying to take over the government.
