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Iraq Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Iraq Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Uh, I can’t even process this article I found on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

And it’s from 2014!

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.

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

What’s that you say?

There were WMD’s in Iraq?!

Of course then they point out that – no – this is not what you think it is 🤣:

The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government’s invasion rationale.

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Bush insisted that Mr. Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the world’s risk. United Nations inspectors said they could not find evidence for these claims.

So let me get this straight.

The USA thought Iraq had WMDs. Right? Right.

We get there and the WMDs we find are 10 years older than we thought they would be.

Therefore, no WMDs were found in Iraq.

Am I doing this right?

Then why haven’t we heard about any of this?

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.”

I mean, my word.

You couldn’t even make this stuff up.

Go read it all.

Makes you wonder what else you know to be true is completely false…

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Who Coined The Term Displaced Person?

Who Coined The Term Displaced Person?

So sociologist Eugene Kulischer was the first to use the term “displaced person.”

Hmmm.

For some reason, this reminds me of the first time I realized there are two different words: “immigrate” and “emigrate.”

Immigrate: To come to a foreign country.

VS.

Emigrate: To leave your home country.

Examples: Kelly immigrated to the USA. Melissa emigrated from Brazil.

My advice is to live abroad if you can, if only for a short time.

A year overseas will make you realize that two different worlds can exist on the same planet.

It’s kinda cool, actually.

The phrase “displaced person” had a very particular meaning at the end of World War II: it was apparently coined by the Russian-American sociologist Eugene Kulischer to describe those who, as a result of war or other catastrophic social disruption, were forced to leave their native land and had no clear path to return. (It is noteworthy that Kulischer, between 1920 and 1941, was forced to flee newly Soviet Russia for Germany, Germany for Denmark, Denmark for France, and France for the United States—the last move occurring at approximately the same time that the Weil family and Claude Levi-Strauss came to America.) For Auden, the civilizational disruptions of the war had displaced everyone in some respect.

-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)

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