IF TRUTH BE TOLD – AT 8:53 A.M. ET:  One of the mysteries of the Iraq War was the failure to find WMD, even though Saddam Hussein had used WMD in his war against Iran in the 1980s. 

There were solid reports that Saddam's WMD arsenal had been moved to Syria before the American-led invasion in 2003, but those reports were viewed with heavy official skepticism, for some reason.

Now some of the real story is starting to come out.  Apparently, there was WMD in Iraq, although the materials were old.  I'd like to know more about this story, well reported in The New York Times, because it can change our perception of the Iraq war, and reverse the leftist line that we went to war for a lie. 

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

COMMENT:  Read the whole story.  This requires a Congressional investigation.  Why were these facts held back from the American people?  Their release would have at least partially vindicated President Bush. 

I remember well how distorted, often propagandistic reporting, warped our view of the Vietnam War, which was gradually being won.  I'm afraid we may have seen it again in Iraq.  I want to know more.

October 15, 2014