Chemical Weapons Appear Ten Years After They Did Not Exist

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Duelfer and the Iraq Study Group should not to be taken sans sodium; it also said there were no WMD's present, something we now know was monumentally incorrect.
It should be pointed out that many of the current ISIS leaders are former Baathists, buttressing the notion that they were a part of the original insurgency.
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Those weapons weren't hidden from the Iraqis. They were hidden from US.
So why didn't the insurgents use them? Because they were fighting a political war as much as a military one, and the use of those weapons would demolish the carefully crafted fiction that "Bush lied and people died". The principal strategy of the Iraqi insurgency was to outlast America, to sour Americans on the war so we would leave. A gas attack would shock many people and support for the war would rise. Not so with traditional methods of attack, which simply disgusted the citizenry with the loss of life. Many Americans were unwilling to support a war predicated on a lie, but would get behind the Bush Administration if it were shown he had been telling the truth - and that we were now facing those very weapons on the field of battle.
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Bush took a beating in the court of public opinion on this issue, both at home and overseas. It would be a monumental strategic blunder to prove he was right.
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A guerilla war can only drag on as long as the enemy believes he can win. We gave them that hope by our political infighting at home. At the core dispute of that infighting was the claim that there were no WMD's.
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This strategy was absolutely catastrophic; we have ISIS because of it, we have had the disaster that is the Obama Administration and all it has wrought, trillions in spending, socialized medicine, abuse of dissenters by government, open borders, etc. because of the upwelling in disgust for the GOP brand because of it.

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/karl_roves_strategic_concealment_initiative.html

October 23, 2014
Karl Rove's Strategic Concealment Initiative
By Timothy Birdnow