Artful Dodger:

> the WikiLeaks Web site revealed that small amounts of chemical weapons were found in Iraq
> American troops were able to buy containers from locals of what they thought was liquid sulfur mustard
> troops discovered a chemical lab in a house in Fallujah during a battle with insurgents

Maybe it was the real deal, I mean Grey Poupon!

The truth is that there never was a "smoking gun". Colin Powell stood in front of the UN General Assembly and gave a speech about Iraq's alleged WMDs, even though weapons inspectors and intelligence agencies inside and outside the USA had insisted that Iraq had destroyed its WMD manufacturing capabilities in the 1990s.

The fact that the UK manufactured a weapons dossier, and the man who wrote it mysteriously commited suicide before the inquiry says a lot about the truth. By the admission of both Tony Blair and George W. Bush the intelligence was "faulty".

Some Americans really want to believe that Iraq had WMDs because that gives legitimacy to the war. Without WMDs the war in Iraq is an imperialist war aimed at misappropriating Iraq's oil. 400,000 civilians were killed by the Coalition of the Willing. If there were no WMDs, then those civilian deaths amount to no more than a war crime, rather than some heroic liberation of the country.

If Iraq had WMDs, instead of a few thousand American soldiers being killed there would have been hundreds of thousands of casualties.

If those containers of Grey Poupon truly contained chemical weapons, the insurgents would have killed thousands with a single suicide chemical weapons release. After all, if common citizens had chemical weapons, insurgents would have chemical weapons too, and American servicemen on the ground would have stood no chance.

What nobody ever talks about is chemical weapons used by the USA in Iraq. The USA used massive amounts of white phosphorus in Fallujah:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4440664.stm

The USA has refused to sign a treaty that bans the use of white phosphorus because it is a convenient way to "provide illumination". The fact that it can set human flesh on fire has nothing to do with anything.

The USA has also used Uranium depleted missiles. These shells are made with a steel alloy containing waste uranium from nulcear reactors and they spread large amounts of radiation. They are in essence a "dirty bomb".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhvX6Vbvhc
http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm

The number of children born with birth defects has increased 2-6 times. Cancer and leukemia among children has increased 3-12 times. That is a 300% to 1200% increase in cancer rates. There is already evidence of a large incidence of cancer and leukemia among American servicement who were exposed to depleted uranium left over after explosion.

The question is: who imposes sanctions on the USA for using chemical and radioactive weapons?