More than 600 US troops complained of chemical agent exposure in Iraq

[CherryPanda]

More than 600 US troops since 2003 reported that they were exposed to chemical agents in Iraq, a much higher number than the Pentagon stated previously.

The revelation was first reported by the New York Times, which has revealed in a series of articles this month that American troops handled an arsenal of deteriorating chemical agents and were sometimes told to stay silent about what they encountered.

The Pentagon failed to recognise the scale of the reported cases of exposure to chemical agents or to offer proper tracking and treatment to those troops who may have been injured, the Times wrote, citing defense officials.

Before the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, president George W. Bush insisted Baghdad was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program.

US forces found no proof of an active program, but they did find remnants of an aging chemical stockpile that they were not well trained to handle.

More than 600 US troops complained of chemical agent exposure in Iraq - Telegraph

Our government does not care much about veterans, we know that. But what we don’t know is that the government doesn’t care about active soldiers either. Why care, if you can always get more? They are just expendables blindly believing they serve the country and protect the people.
I am just resentful.

 

[Vigilante]

Be quite Panda, that shit was hidden and NOT covered by the MSM a decade ago.. you wouldn't want the low IQ pond scum here to realize that along with the 550 TONS of Yellowcake that was in Iraq at the time of the war,,,UNGUARDED, that chemicals were also used!.... It would spoil a talking point of the Subversives!

 

[I.P.Freely]

wasn't it the former US Defence Sec Donny gold spurs Rumsfeld who allowed American firms to supply Saddam with the chemicals in 1983. Its rather ironic dont you think.

 

[Vigilante]

wasn't it the former US Defence Sec Donny gold spurs Rumsfeld who allowed American firms to supply Saddam with the chemicals in 1983. Its rather ironic dont you think.

Iran's chemical weapons (CW) program was launched during the Iran/Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 through 1988.... Saddam was more effective.