Dave, you told us earlier the NYT is "not a real newspaper."

Secondly, these disposed of or hidden chemical weapons aren't the "WMDs" that Bush and Powell ostensibly went to war to remove. Everyone knows Hussein used mustard and sarin on his people.

Here's from the NYT story:

"The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the governments invasion rationale.

"After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Bush insisted that Mr. Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the worlds risk. United Nations inspectors said they could not find evidence for these claims.

"Then, during the long occupation, American troops began encountering old chemical munitions in hidden caches and roadside bombs. Typically 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets, they were remnants of an arms program Iraq had rushed into production in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.

"All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.
In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures. First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the wars outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find."

Dave, the US "did NOT find what it had been looking for at the war's outset" to back up its flimsy evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction presented to the world and the United Nations by Powell. The US didn't publicize these discoveries because "they did NOT support the invasion's rationale." Make of it what you want. Consensus of the world and your generals who fought the war is that it was a mistake costing 4,500 lives, 11,000 wounded and a trillion dollars.