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It appears to have been a chlorine gas and white phosphorus chemical weapon. More details here.
I worked in a bookstore back in 2002 during the lead up to the Iraq war, and was shelving Scott Ritter's 2002 book and decided to take a look. When he talks about WMDs I now listen. He was exactly right about Iraq's lack of WMDs. He is a former UN weapons inspector.
US petroleum companies cashed in big time on Iraq. Also, immediately following the 2003 invasion, Iraqi oil was summarily switched from being sold in Euros to being sold only in USD. Who do you thing that benefits?
It was known by reputable sources, including two professional weapons inspectors (one a US citizen even) that Iraq had no threatening WMD capability in 2003. Read this 2002 (pre invasion) book if you want an example of accurate predictions.
Syria doesn't have oil, but it is a choke point in natural gas distribution.
Why did we invade Iraq? I'm not sure how that became the topic, but here are the answers.
As for the WMD, you are simply mistaken. I knew full well that every single claim the Bush administration was making about the WMD were tendentious, at best, if not false. I knew that our best nuclear scientists, at Oak Ridge, had declared the aluminum tubes absolutely fucking worthless for enriching uranium. I knew the "unaccounted for stockpiles" were, at best, sludge for the previous 5 years, and probably never existed. If one read Vanity Fair one knew that the Niger uranium connection was bullshit.
Don't tell me it was all classified, so CNN had to run those stories.
It was all public, and CNN decided to carry water.
I was making god damnit $200/K year when we invaded Iraq and I quit my job the morning we actually invaded. I knew it was bullshit.
This book was published a half year before the invasion.
As for the al-Qaeda connection, my fondest memory of that was the time Doug Feith decided to leak his own research on the Iraq-al-Qaeda connection. The fucking Department of Defense shut that snow job down! Go DoD! What a bunch of lies.
CNN coverage of the Iraq War was cheerleading from the get-go.