Why didn't most media outlets run the story of the US, finally finding WMDs in Iraq?

Question

We found mustard gas, several war heads, and some other chemical weapons, all of which are classified as WMDs, however, the main stream media chose not to run this story and only a few outlets reported it. Why is this?

Answer 1

I am troubled by this as well. I just turned on the talk-radio station and they said it on the news on there (that chemical weapons were found). But I didn't see it on tv news. I am confused about what was really found and why it isn't being reported.

It makes me angry that only bad news is reported, not the good news that shows how hard our troops are working over there.

Answer 2

The Iraq Survey Group report listed these WMD's in the final draft. These were weapons that were buried and forgot. They were degraded and of no use as a weapon anymore. This was on Oct. 6, 2004. The report also said the Saddam Hussein had no stockpile of illegal WMD's. It's amazing as the report was released almost 2 years to the day after Bush's speech in Cincinnati about Hussein having WMD,s. Now it's resurfaced to try to make the occupation seem like the right decision. It's "Be Afraid" all over again!
What Liberal Media?

Answer 3

A link would be nice. Remember, we're talking about weapons of MASS destruction, not anti-aircraft missiles or tear gas.

Here's a quote from the Fox News link above:

"A senior Defense Department official, however, made the following clarifications:

• These findings do not reflect a WMD capacity that was built up after 1991.
• These are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had.
• These are not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

Keep it in perspective.

Answer 4

Do you really want the mainstream media to report this story? Seeing as how these WMD's were part of the weapons that we already knew about, that they were from production prior to 1991, that they were degraded, there were less than 500 of them total, and they support the conclusion that Saddam did not develop any new weapons during the period that the U.N. was doing inspections.
This says, that once again, the U.N.'s inspections were working, and the intelligence that Bush used was either badly flawed or an outright lie.

Answer 5

It become easily the real WMDs that Saddam become speaking about it. Saddam easily lied to international about having genuine WMDs yet info exhibits that when the 2003 Iraq invasion. yet info exhibits that Saddam become about to construct it and attempt to commence a nuclear warfare with Iran. besides the undeniable fact that the mainstream media refuse to document it as they don't sense it really is not any longer sensible. The Iraq warfare is anybody opinion: even if we ought to continually were there or no longer.

Answer 6

Its possible that the validity of the findings would have been questioned by majority of viewers and reporters. Also, American foreign policy is focused on peace in Iraq. Americans have no interest in Iraq and want that entire mess cleaned up ASAP. So, I dont think it would have been of any benefit to the administration. It is surprising but not shocking.

Answer 7

Because we all new they had mustard Gas, the weapons the president lied to congress about and in doing so violating the Constitution were nuclear. Of course he was too stupid to pronounce the word correctly.

Answer 8

Because not even President Bush is commenting on it. It's a desperate attempt by Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum to fire up the sheep in his losing reelection campaign to Bob Casey Jr.

Answer 9

It doesn't really matter. If we did, the Democrats and most of the media would down play it anyway. Saddam claimed to have them.That is all that matters. Weather he actually did or not is irrelevant. When someone claims something like this and all the intelligence seems to back it up, you act! And we did! If we didn't act, we still would be wondering if he actually had them and hoping they wouldn't be used!

Answer 10

it depends on what you classify as weapon of mass destruction. Today we think of it as nuclear weapons. Chemical weapon and war heads are too common around the world. You need to think of Iraq as a nation, it has military, thus it has weapon (war heads and chemical weapons). We start the war on Iraq because we think and we lie to the people that Iraq has nuclear weapons, but we ain't finding nutting there. Nuk-cu-lar is too small to see by our naked eyes. We need to use compound microscope to see that weapon. That's y we found nutting.