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Interesting article by C. J. Chivers yesterday in the liberal bible, The New York Times, titled: “The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons.”

 

Mr. Chivers writes that five years after President George W. Bush sent troops into Iraq, soldiers had entered an expansive but largely secret chapter of America’s long and bitter involvement in Iraq. And, “From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.”

 

Furthermore, “Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ 'Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound.

 

Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

 

Thus, this is another case where lies and cover-ups by the administration presented a picture of political opponents that didn’t exist. Furthering their fraudulent capture of the office of POTUS based on untruths and deception.

 

The article itself is quite informative, so here’s a link: NYT-  PENTAGON HUSHED IRAQ'S USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

 

The next issue concerns the latest Gallup polls regarding registered voters.

 

Andrew Dugan reports that, “results are from a Sept. 25-30 poll in which Gallup asked registered voters to rate the importance of 13 issues to their vote for Congress, and then to indicate which party would do a better job on each issue.

 

The Republicans in Congress hold significant leads over the Democrats on four of the six issues that U.S. registered voters say are most important in determining how they will vote in November: the economy, the way the federal government is working, the situation with Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, and the federal budget deficit. Democrats, by contrast, top their Republican rivals on just one of the six: "equal pay for women."

 

On the No. 1 issue, the economy, Republicans have more than doubled their April lead over Democrats, to 11 percentage points.

 

Then, Mr. Dugan lists the five issues least important to voters, which ranks “climate change” at the very bottom. Proving once again, that as far as this administration goes, almost everything they do is totally upside down. 

 

 

 

In that regard, a reader’s comment described the situation just about perfectly.

 

MattMusson Chris wrote: “Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pidgeon. They will knock over the pieces, poop on the board and still strut around like they won.”

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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