[IP] more on -- not finding WMD in Iraq; were we wrong?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Subject: RE: [IP] not finding WMD in Iraq; were we wrong?
> To: dave@farber.net
> Cc: Hiawatha Bray <watha@monitortan.com>
>
>
> As one of those who supported the war effort, I find this argument rather
> unsatisfactory.  What about all the reports that the Iraqi army was ready to
> use the stuff if we crossed the dreaded "red line?"  They'd have had to have
> access to the weapons if the reports were true.  So given the rapid collapse
> of resistance, we'd have reasonably expected to find some signs of these
> weapons.
>
> And what about all the high-ranking officials now held by the allies?  They
> no longer need fear the consequences of revealing what they know.  So why
> aren't they leading us to the caches of hidden weapons?
>
> I still think we'll find something eventually.  After all, if Iraq really
> had disarmed, Saddam put his country through 12 years of sanctions for
> nothing.  It makes no sense to work so hard to conceal the fact that you
> aren't violating international law.
>
> That said, I still find the failure thus far to find WMDs quite surprising.
>
> Hiawatha Bray
> Boston Globe
>
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