Pentagon withheld information about decades-old chemical weapons during Iraq War, report claims FoxNews.com

Not surprised in the least. They found too many remnants and residual evidence, and couldn't OPSEC it fast enough. Just enough info got out to start the conspiracy theories, but by then, the crux of the matter had been sanitized.

Every time we get involved in the middle east it comes back to bite us in the ass. Stop selling arms to countries that we KNOW for a fact are not our allies. This president has armed our enemies to the teeth

The masses don't want to hear the truth. But they want to hear all about hope and change.

Some Old Chem Weapons Ordnance. Not that impressed. Wasn't long after I left DC and the South Korean Ambassador decided he wanted a pool in his backyard. When they were digging they found some old WWI Experimental Chemical Weapons Material that one of the colleges in DC was developing and buried it there at the end of the War.

Not sure how all this works. We go kill someone in Pakistan and the world knows within hours what new technology we used that was all secret. We do our job that isn't told to anyone. So it does not surprise me that this did not get published, but not sure as to why or who. In reality it might be better not to tell if ISIS or their old self were going to be looking in the area as we could not be everywhere. But hey "they" seem to know before we do at times.

I don't now what I think about this. I don't think they withheld. We gave Saddam Hussien most of those weapons in the 80's and knew they were there when we went into Iraq in 1991 and in 2003. I don't understand why Bush didn't tell the public about this when he was ridiculed for there being no WMD's found. The only thing I can think is that they didn't mention it because of the potential blow back from the public when people realized we helped create the chemicals.
The unit I was with in 03-04 encountered chemical weapons while we were there and for years afterwards I told people about it. Especially, those who tried to say there were no WMD's in Iraq. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.