Pentagon Kept Secret The Discovery Of 5,000 Chemical Warheads And Shells In Iraq. On At Least Six Occasions 17 U.S. Soldiers Were Injured Handling These Weapons

US Troops DID Find Chemical Weapons In Iraq - But Pentagon Kept It Secret: Discovery Of 5,000 Warheads And Shells 'Was Hushed Up Because They Were Not Weapons Of Mass Destruction' -- Daily Mail

* An estimated 5,000 chemical weapons were found in Iraq between 2004 and 2011, it has been revealed
* Pentagon chose not to release the information to the general public for several embarrassing reasons
* The weapons did not meet George W. Bush's rationale that Saddam Hussein had a program of 'mass destruction'
* Most had been developed by Saddam's forces during the 1980s and had been built in close collaboration with the West
* At least 17 American military personnel were injured due to the mishandling of the weapons
* George W Bush has described the 'intelligence failure' over Iraq as the greatest failure of his presidency

About 5,000 chemical weapons were recovered or destroyed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion but the Pentagon chose to keep the findings top secret, it has emerged.

An investigation by The New York Times has revealed that U.S. forces happened across the hidden caches of warheads, shells and aviation bombs between 2004 and 2011.

But the information wasn't made public as embarrassingly the weapons, many of which had been built in close collaboration with the West, had been sitting dormant since the 1980s and so didn't support President George W. Bush's rationale for going to war.

At least 17 American troops were also seriously injured discovering and attempting to destroy the deteriorating shells filled with nerve and mustard agents.

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The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons -- C. J. Chivers, NYT
Report: Pentagon ‘suppressed’ finds of chemical weapons in Iraq and related U.S. casualties -- Washington Post
U.S. accused of hiding chemical weapons exposure to its own troops -- CBS
Pentagon withheld information about decades-old chemical weapons during Iraq War, report claims -- FOX News
GIs sickened as US kept Iraq chemical weapons secret -- NYPost
US troops exposed to chemical weapons in Iraq – intel docs -- RT
Chemical Weapons Created With Western Support Found by US Troops in Iraq: Reports -- RIA Novosti
Report: U.S. Kept Mum After Finding Old Chemical Weapons in Iraq -- Time
U.S. Troops Were Injured by Old WMDs in Iraq, Which Doesn’t Mean Bush Was Right -- NYMag
NY Times admits Saddam had WMDs -- David Paulin, American Thinker