No WMD?
I have a clear memory of credible reports from a Northern Iraqi Mosque complex formerly used to train terrorists (highly suspected to be related to Al-keda). They found Ricin and training materials to make more (you know, like the ricin they found in that apartment in England last fall)....That quallifies as WMD in my book, that stuff is easy to make and VERY deadly. To quell that training operation is worth the war in saved lives in the Western world alone.
What about the discovery of artillary and rocket shells made for delivering chemical agents? What about those SCUD missiles that turned up? Those were all forbidden by the UN and disavowed by Iraq. Iraq reported thousands of gallons of chemical weapons in 1991....Where did they go?
The mobile laboratories and the remotely piloted drones that Sec Powell described on 5 Feb have been discovered. Theese are delivery mechanisms for WMD, and they have been discovered in Iraq. The capability to make and deliver WMD shows a clear intent to do so....The threat to Iraq's neighbors and to the world is clear. That threat does not exist now
Serin, Mustard, other agents....None discovered yet, but Iraq reported thousands and thousands of gallons of this stuff to the UN inspectors. What happened to it?
We may or may not find some more WMD....But, our success or failure should be judged by the plight of the Iraqis in a year or so, or by the jailed children freed, or by an end to the sons of Sadman who now hide in a cave, or by the cessation of tortures, or by discovering mass grave sites, or by the now smiling faces, or freed Kurdish lands and people, or, by many other things
Yes, I'd like to find more of the missing WMD, but, if we don't find it, it does not signal dishonesty or failure on America's part.
You can bet that the next time my President Bush says "I'll give you 48 hours....," people, and governments, will take him seriously
THAT is a good thing
