ALPERN AT LARGE-Well, shut the front door! Bush did NOT lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's)?
So there was a huge cache of chemical weapons were sitting in the Iraqi desert in enormous amounts, and actually making Americ an GI's ill?
And those who handled the chemical weapons were told to clam up about it...to the point they were prevented from receiving proper medical care and official recognition of their wounds and discovery?
And Bush's political team, led by Karl Rove, made great efforts to conceal it?
And roughly half of those canisters (some 2,500) of nerve gas and mustard gas were left in Iraq?
And the New York Times article describes that this discovery has been covered up for the better part of a decade, and that some of these WMD's have found their way to the Islamic State?
And was this mega-coverup because the WMD's were from the pre-1991 era, and designed and manufactured by the U.S. and Europe to be used in the Iran/Iraq war against the Iranians, so they "didn't count" as part of the Bush narrative of post-9/11 WMD creation/usage by Saddam Hussein?
Was this discovery, so dismantling, and the perfect answer, to all those screaming "Bush lied" kept secret because it implicated Western design and manufacture of these WMD's?
And is this recent unearthing of the WMD discovery (thanks to the Freedom of Information Act) was known by the Obama Administration as well, and yet not fixed by the President before he withdrew all American troops from Iraq?
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And yet Defense Secretary Hagel and his military team continues say little to nothing about this, when pressed by the Times?
And why did all this get no commentary, and disappear entirely from all Internet and paper media outlets, within 24 hours of this New York Times article and sudden uproar?
And so will folks like me, who wonder what the heck is going on here, and want this point to be raised because these WMD's in the hands of ISIS is as huge a threat as the Ebola virus, suddenly also disappear from exist …
(Ken Alpern is a Westside Village Zone Director and Board member of the Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC), previously co-chaired its Planning and Outreach Committees, and currently is Co-Chair of its MVCC Transportation/Infrastructure Committee. He is co-chair of the CD11Transportation Advisory Committee and chairs the nonprofit Transit Coalition, and can be reached at [email protected]. He also does regular commentary on the MarkIsler Radio Show on AM 870, and co-chairs the grassroots Friends of the Green Line at www.fogl.us. The views expressed in this article are solely those of Mr. Alpern.)
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CityWatch
Vol 12 Issue 85
Pub: Oct 21, 2014