The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation national radio network today investigated the New York Times story about WMDs in Iraq. The program host said the NYT reported there were WMD in Iraq, and then introduced live senior writer Chivers who broke the story.

Chivers' first sentence categorically denied the host's premise. He said what was found almost as an "incidental" discovery were not WMD that US said it went to war to remove. He said soldiers found rusty remnants of sarin/mustard shells that were buried in the 80s during or after the Iran-Iraq war.

The CBC switched quickly to his reported US military mistreatment of soldiers who were burned and affected from contact with the munitions. Chivers said only through their back-channeling over the heads of their superiors did the Pentagon take it seriously and Hagel promise immediate redress.

Canadians have a strong interest in gas, their troops among the first to be gassed by the Germans, as inventors of the first gas mask during the First World War, and Canada is believed to have gas stocks above and below ground, as do our allies and enemies. No one talks of them, of course.

We don't think of them as WMD.




Last edited by King Brown; 10/24/14 02:19 PM.