U.S. troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011: report
Source: The New York Times
U.S. troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011: report
By Dylan Stableford
6 hours ago
Yahoo News
American troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011, but their discoveries were kept secret by the U.S. government, the New York Times reports.
According to the 10,000-word, eight-part interactive report ("The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons"
by C.J. Chivers published on the paper's website late Tuesday, at least 17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers were exposed to nerve or mustard agents in Iraq after 2003.
On at least six occasions, American troops and American-trained Iraqi troops were wounded by the abandoned munitions, but news of the encounters was neither shared publicly nor widely circulated among the troops, the victims told the Times. Others said they were told to be vague or deceptive about what they found.
"'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” Jarrod Lampier, a retired Army major, said of the 2006 discovery of 2,400 nerve-agent rockets at a former Republican Guard compound, the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war.
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I remember my then-republican cousin posting something on Facebook about a bunch of old, rusted shells, and it was "proof that Bush was right all along!!!1" even though it wasn't. 
I'm with you. Faux would have been trumpeting W's mastery of the subject.
The weapons were from this era:
