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Whereâs the WMD?
After over a month of looking, Coalition forces have not come up with the WMD smoking gun yet. There are many possible reasons why. Saddam, after 20 years of practice, has become a master of disbursing and hiding things and it will take some time to root his WMD program out. Alternatively, it is possible that just before we invaded, large portions of Iraq's WMD program were sent to Syria for safekeeping. The nightmare scenario though, particularly for those who justified the war in terms of finding WMDs, is that WMDs do not exist and have not since the end of Gulf War I. Unfortunately, with every day that passes, that possibility looms larger.Peace out, people. Keep reading... It is likely that if Saddam no longer had a WMD program he did not know it. Why else would he endure over a decade of crippling sanctions? If Saddam had ended his quest for WMDs, it would have been in his best interest to open the doors wide and let the world see. By playing as the model citizen he would have regained control of his oil wealth and quickly been able to make Iraq a regional superpower again. Instead, his henchmen did everything possible to obfuscate the true WMD picture and to thwart any inspection teams. If they had nothing to hide, they sure worked hard at trying to hide it. What if they were not just hiding a possible WMD program from inspectors, but also hiding from Saddam the fact that no such program existed? I'll summarize: The article posits that a real WMD program would have been so expensive, that the country, under sanctions, couldn't have afforded Plague and Palaces. However, nobody wanted to give Saddam the bad news that he couldn't have both. Thus, they undertook an elaborate charade to fool Saddam, since it was easier to fool him about a non-existent WMD program than about a non-existent palace. They had to fool US Intelligence also, not wanting the Merkins to tell Saddam he had no WMD, and that his lackeys were lying to him. The mobile bio-labs, on the other hand, are relatively cheap, and being mobile, they could do the pea-under-the-shell-game and make Saddam think he had hundreds crawling around in the countryside. Posted by: Ptah 2003-05-15 |
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