Originally posted by EastCoastKid|
Also, according to the book "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" by James Risen, we actually destroyed Saddam's WMD by accident during the Gulf War. A pilot was coming back from a sortie and had two bombs left to drop. He saw a target ("a complex of buildings in Tarmiya, about 30 kilometers north of Baghdad, that the US apparraprently believed was part of the Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission.") He dropped the bombs and came home. According to the book, US targeteers became "intreagued" by the "unusual activity surrounding the complex." They ordered B-52s to carpet bomb the location and "utterly destroyed the Tarmiya uranium-enrichement facility, known to the Iraqis as the Safa factory." Risen continues, "It effectively ended Iraq's nuclear ambitions." And, "Jafar's (a top scientist) program never recovered.
A uranium enrichment site is one thing, but did that same site include the VX gas stockpiles, mustard gas, and other dangerous WMDs.
