chemical weapons in iraq

• Chemical weapons in Iraq.

Fallujah, scene of some of the Iraq War's fiercest fighting, was always going to be a long time struggling back to its feet. More than half of its 39,...

• The American Conservative
• January 01, 2010

• On the Front

Rumsfeld book details prewar Iraq strike plan WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld reveals in his new book that he urged a U.S. military strike on a suspected chemical weapons site in northern Iraq in 2003, and that he wanted the attack timed to coincide with Colin Powell's address to the U.N. Security Council making the case for war.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• February 09, 2011

• Book: Rumsfeld Reveals Prewar Iraq Strike Plan

WASHINGTON - Former Pentagon chief Donald H. Rumsfeld reveals in his new book that he urged a U.S. military strike on a suspected chemical weapons site in northern Iraq in 2003, and that he wanted the attack timed to coincide with Colin Powell's address to the U.N. Security Council making the case for war. In his memoir, "Known and Unknown," Rumsfeld wrote that the Joint Chiefs supported a strike, based on what Rumsfeld called extensive but not conclusive CIA evidence that the site housed an underground facility for testing chemical weapons. He called it a "fairly sizeable terrorist operation.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• February 09, 2011

• A Question of Judgment

She also voted against an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., that would restrict military action to the enforcement of a U.N. resolution to eliminate nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in Iraq. On the Jan. 13, 2008, episode of NBC's "Meet the Press," [Hillary Clinton] said she opposed the Levin Amendment because "... in my view [it] gave the security Council of the U.N. a veto over American presidential power. I don't believe that is an appropriate policy for the United States ... Clinton opposes this view. At the Feb. 26 Democratic debate in Cleveland, Clinton asserted erroneously that [Obama] had threatened to bomb Pakistan, "which I don't think was a particularly wise position to take," she said. Obama reiterated his August address to rebut Clinton's assertion, then retort...

• Boston Banner, The
• August 25, 2009

• Usa Kept Iraq Stocked in Chemical Weapons

In a letter to the editor Feb. 15, ("Where's the praise for ousting vicious dictator," YourViews) one Bush supporter was indignant because we do not praise President Bush from freeing Iraq from Saddam Hussein. One fact he gives is over 281,000 Kurds are still missing. I'm sure not only are they missing but many are dead from biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction that the good old USA kept selling Hussein right up to the first Gulf War.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• March 16, 2004

• Inside the Beltway [Derived Headline]

BUSH-TOPIA Miss me yet?" The glow of President George W. Bush on the public radar is intensifying, powered by revelations in recently leaked WikiLeaks documents that chemical weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, thus neutralizing "leftist folklore" about the war in Iraq, says Newsbusters.com analyst Tom Blumer. Also consider that Sarah Palin added Mr. Bush to her talking points in a fundraising speech on Saturday, pairing up "good old Reaganism" and the gutsy "we win and you lose" aspects of Mr. Bush's national security policy.

• The Washington Times
• October 26, 2010

• And the Winner Is...Iran

It doesn't take a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies to identify the losers in the popular revolutions currently sweeping the region. Egypt's Mubarak, Tunisia's Ben Ali, Libya's Gaddafi and Yemen's Saleh are either gone or battling to retain power. Syria's army is machine-gunning protesters in the streets, and Saudi forces are assaulting Shiite demonstrators in neighboring Bahrain. Israel feels increasingly threatened from all sides. However, it is also important to identify the two "winners" in the Middle East, which I plan to do in this and next week's columns. Champagne corks are popping in Iran and Turkey amid the recent turmoil, and it's important to understand why. By any objective measure, the influence of Iran and its state religion, Shia Islam, have grown enormously in the past de...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• May 02, 2011

• The Case for Defeatism

[Iraq] possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons," he told a crowd in Cincinnati four months before the war. "It is seeking nuclear weapons ... If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today-and we do [sic]-does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?" If the U.S. invasion force had found stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons in Iraq, we could have claimed victory. Although critics would have remained disgusted with the sleazy origins of this roll-the-dice waii we would have been forced to concede that [Bush] had validated his policy of pre-emption. "The United States has removed a tyrant it helped to install and maintained in power for decades," Bush would have said,...

• Boise Weekly
• August 19, 2009

• Chlorine Cache Found in Iraq ; U.S. Sees Insurgents Moving to Chemical Weapons

S. troops sweeping Baghdad have found containers of nitric acid and chlorine, raising concerns that insurgents are expanding their use of chemicals in the war for power in Iraq, military officials said yesterday. The containers were found as part of a larger cache of weapons discovered as U.S. and Iraqi troops cleared house after house in the Sunni-majority Ghazaliyah neighborhood in western Baghdad.

• The Washington Times
• March 23, 2007

• Mccain Visits Leadership in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for a visit with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials. The trip by McCain, who has linked his political future to U.S. military success in the nearly five-year-old war, coincided with the 20th anniversary of a horrific chemical weapons attack in northern Iraq.

• Charleston Gazette
• March 18, 2008