Just curious, did we ever find the WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in Iraq?

Question

I saw on CNN that soliders found a hidden room full of guns, grenades and suicide bombs but I missed most of the story. I know WMDs are nuclear weapons and not those but I still had to ask.

Answer 1

The only weapons of mass destruction ever found in Iraq were very old stockpiles of Chemical weapons left over from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. These are so old that the are no longer of any military value and may well have been accidentally misplaced by the Iraqi army at some point. Needless to say various Republican congressmen have used the find to claim that we 'found Saddam's WMDs' despite the fact that these WMDs were so old as to be useless.

Also in response to what two other people wrote: I've never heard about anyone finding 50 tons of weapons grade uranium in Iraq (weapons grade uranium by definition can be used to build a nuclear bomb, and finding any would have made the news.)

Also, while the US is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons, chemical weapons have been used numerous times, in the first World War and also by Saddam in the 1980s.

Answer 2

First of all WMDs are not just nuclear weapons they are also chemical and biological. Also there is a yes and no to that question. We did find 50 tons of enriched uranium (useful for dirty bombs). However we didn't find the chemical weapons that we originally intended to find. These were the weapons we gave them years ago when they were fighting Iran. The only thing though is that we knew he did use all of them and the rest we gave him disappeared. There were reports of the Russians and the Libyans taking them but they weren't pursued for diplomatic reasons. So the WMDs are still out there, but they are not in Iraq anymore. As soon as our troops landed Hussian probably had most of the WMDs shipped out like how he did with his fighter planes during operation desert storm.

Answer 3

At the time of the invasion of Iraq, there was every reason to believe that Iraq had WMDs.

For clarification, WMDs are Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological weapons, and the U.S. is not the only country to have used WMDs. The Germans used mustard gas in the battle of Ypres (I believe that mustard gas is a WMD, but I was unable to confirm that when I did a Google search). Also, Iraq has used chemical weapons- in the Iran-Iraq war and on its own people (see source).

Also, this is something to really consider:

"Based on the UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission] report to the UN Security Council in January 1999 and
earlier UNSCOM reports, we assess that when the UN inspectors left Iraq they
were unable to account for:
● up to 360 tonnes of bulk chemical warfare agent, including 1.5 tonnes of VX
nerve agent;
● up to 3,000 tonnes of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300
tonnes which, in the Iraqi chemical warfare programme, were unique to the
production of VX;
● growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admits to having
manufactured);
● over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents. (quoted from source)."

Where did those weapons go... I wonder :(. Before anyone doubts that they were there, consider the fact that there is a lot of sand to search, and consider that Saddam knew we were going to invade; he had ample opportunity to bury them or send them to other countries.

You all should read the source, which is a report by the British Government which contains information from the United Nations as well as thier own intelligence sources.

Answer 4

Did you not see the report last summer/fall? Over 500 warheads filled with nerve agents and other chemical weapons have been found over there. These were not new weapons, but old ones that Saddam Hussein lied about disposing of. These weapons have been found ever since the war began and are still being found. President Bush did not initially allow this information to go public because he knows that al-Qaeda uses our own news networks as intel, just like how we use Al-Jazeera. He knows full well that the insurgence would make use of these munitions. Of course, the media kept reports on this to a minimum, to keep the Bush-haters on the side of liberalism/ignorance. I was deployed when all of this was happening.

Answer 5

Well, we did find a large amount of chemical weapons, which in certain quantities do qualify as WMDs according to the definition, but it was not quite enough to be considered WMDs. It is unfortunate that when the war began it was sort of taken for granted that WMD only means nuclear weapons. I think some people in the government may have taken advantage of that view point to, in a debatable way, manipulate the public.

Maybe I was too neutral sounding at first. We did not find enough chemical weapons to be considered weapons of mass destruction. That means we didn't find WMDs. What we found were chemical weapons. The 220th MP company out of the Colorado National Guard found a bunch of them. But there still wasn't enough to be considered WMDs. So the answer is no, we didn't find any.
I also want to clarify that the Bush administration, while I don't think they outright lied, never explained what all counts as a WMD, and allowed people to believe it was just nuclear weapons so that people would be more eager to go to war. Now that we haven't found nukes, they can still claim we found WMDs. Its not a lie, but its just as bad as one.
Thats all I was trying to say.

Answer 6

My unit recovered 2 155mm mustard-gas filled artillery shells. What surpassed off is that when rumors of the invention of chemical artellery shells began to leak out the liberals and the MSM replaced their minds a declared chemical weapons to non longer be 'WMD.' and that i'm calling you on your 'brother died in Iraq' BS.

Answer 7

Not all weapons of mass destruction are nuclear. There are also biochemical and biological weapons (poisons, diseases, etc) that are considered weapons of mass destruction as well.

That said, no, as far as I know they never found anything in Iraq that would be classed as a weapon of mass destruction.

Answer 8

Bush: "WMD Mr. Vice President...WMD".
Cheney: "Weapons of Mass Destruction Sir"?
Bush: "No,WMD.....We're Morons Dick, We're Morons.

Answer 9

To date, publicly we never found any Nuclear (nu-clear, Bush, not nu-cle-ar) WMD's in Iraq. Kinda makes you wish we never entered it in the first place, doesn't it?

Answer 10

we never did those weapons the found r just weapons and every counrty has them wmds r like the bombs they used in pearl harbor and japan