NOW THEY TELL US – AT 9:58 A.M. ET:  Wait a second, just wait a second.  Weren't we told that there were no WMD in Iraq?  I think that's what I heard.  Maybe I heard wrong.  Or maybe the party line has changed.  Whatever.  We now have this from Iraq.  From AP: 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq said the Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.

Iraq’s UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter circulated Tuesday that “armed terrorist groups” entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment through the camera surveillance system before the “terrorists” disabled it, he said.

The Islamic State group, which controls parts of Syria, sent its fighters into neighboring Iraq last month and quickly captured a vast stretch of territory straddling the border between the two countries. Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land the extremists control.

Alhakim said as a result of the takeover of Muthanna, Iraq is unable “to fulfil its obligations to destroy chemical weapons” because of the deteriorating security situation. He said it would resume its obligations “as soon as the security situation has improved and control of the facility has been regained.”

Alhakim singled out the capture of bunkers 13 and 41 in the sprawling complex 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad in the notorious “Sunni Triangle.”

COMMENT:  How many years has it been since the Iraq war ended?  And that facility is still there?  I guess the press and the professors were too busy chanting "Bush lied, thousands died," to notice. 

We also note that Syria seems to have an inordinate supply of WMD.  We were told by good sources before our invasion of Iraq that long convoys had been spotted traveling from Iraq to Syria, and that they might have contained Iraqi WMD.  But the reports were ignored by the mainstream media. 

Chickens do indeed come home to roost.

July 9, 2014