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    Quote Originally Posted by KalashniKEV View Post
    Also, this whole story with the chemical weapons is BS. Worldnetdaily doesn't even qualify as the "media."
    CNN has been covering the story too but describes the materials as remnants of damaged and unserviceable munitions that have been sealed in bunkers for years (I stand corrected on the point that nothing was found there):

    http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06...apons-complex/

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    If there were any real chemical weapons the previous administration would have paraded them around.

    Had the same thing been found back then most likely the media and everyone else would be talking about what an assclown Bush is and how this is proof Iraq didn't have real useable WMD. Hell I bet that exact story about this exact place was aired in 2004.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3ACR_Scout View Post
    CNN has been covering the story too but describes the materials as remnants of damaged and unserviceable munitions that have been sealed in bunkers for years (I stand corrected on the pint that nothing was found there):

    http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06...apons-complex/

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    The first I read about it was from the typical gun forum Fear Junkie, who was peeing in his pants over it and posted the link from WND.

    CNN Blogs doesn't really count as "coverage."
    (Neither does CNN iReport)

    I knew they had to be talking about al Muthanna. That place has been rotting since 1991 when they told Saddam he couldn't use it anymore.

    It's nothing more than a junk pile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KalashniKEV View Post
    CNN Blogs doesn't really count as "coverage."
    (Neither does CNN iReport)
    Ok, now that's just getting silly. That was the first CNN link that turned up in Google, which I used to find something quickly since I remembered several reports on it from CNN. Here's a "real" CNN report, if you prefer that:

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/world/...sis/?c=&page=0

    ISIS takes old chemical facility

    Fighting raged across Iraq. Iraqi security forces regained control of the Baiji oil refinery, the largest in Iraq, on Friday following a night of fighting, Iraqi security officials in Samarra told CNN.

    Iraqiya State TV reported that Iraqi security forces killed an undisclosed number of ISIS fighters.

    Also on Thursday, ISIS militants took control of a facility that Saddam Hussein once used to produce and store chemical weapons.

    But the State Department doubts that the Al Muthanna complex contains any material of "military value."

    "The materials in the bunkers, which date from the 1980s, are of little military value and would be very difficult to safely move," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday.
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    I would bet the CIA arms and trained a good percent of them. Provided arms munitions and other Arabs chipped in as well. Good ole Saddam ,he was able to keep the natives subdued.

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    They did recover some chemical weapons in Iraq during the Bush Admin. The media chose to mostly ignore it: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/...classified.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ed L. View Post
    They did recover some chemical weapons in Iraq during the Bush Admin. The media chose to mostly ignore it: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/...classified.pdf
    Most people with half a brain realize our media isn't our friend.

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    Looks like they got some complete SOPMOD kitted M4's...


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    Mahdi Army militia member with an interesting AR. Notice the PEQ-2.

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    I am just really curious as to how many of these people were trained by the MiTT's like the one I was part of where we embedded with the Iraqi Army and taught them US style tactics? We were joking then that we need to only teach them the very basics so they don't come back to bite us one day. Not so funny now.

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