Weapons? What Weapons?

1. Bush's State of the Union, January 2004:

We are seeking all the facts - already the Kay Report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations. Had we failed to act, the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day.

2. CNN, January 2005:

U.S. inspectors have ended their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in recent weeks, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN.

The United States is taking steps to determine how it received erroneous intelligence that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing and stockpiling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.

"Our friends and allies had the same intelligence that we had when it came to Saddam Hussein," he said. "Now we need to continue to move forward to find out what went wrong and to correct those flaws.."

3. Hitchens a few days ago: How can UN weapons inspectors now complain about the US allowing weapons components and facilities to be "looted"? If these were "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities" developed by Saddam, then Bush was right all along--there were WMDs! And it wasn't looting, it was Saddam loyalists storing or selling the stuff!

Who looks worse: people saying: we always thought there were WMDs there, but we allowed the most ominous facilities to just melt away?; or people saying: we were pretty sure there were no nukes, and we suspected there were no WMDs of any kind, but even if these places just made gunpowder, or McVeigh's fertilizer, shouldn't they have been secured?

Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:56 pm MST by robertll | Email Article |

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Weapons? What Weapons?