Kevin Horton wrote:

This WMD stuff really baffles me. If Saddam had WMD, and he knew the US
was coming to get them, did we really think he would just leave them to be
found? Shouldn't we have expected him to get them out of the country,
into unknown hands?

They wouldn't do him much good in the hands of his neighbors (most of
whom he couldn't trust anyway).

Would we be safer with the WMD in Iraq, where we
could try to keep an eye on them, or in unknown hands? Is GWB
stupid enough to prefer having WMD in unknown hands to having them
contained in Irag? I doubt it.

Unless I missed something, the whole point is we could NOT "keep an
eye on them". No one knew where they were. I know that it's "common
knowledge" that the WMD were "contained". I've just never had anyone
explain to me how that keeps WMD from getting out of the country.
When you consider how many bad guys and equipment are flowing into and
out of Iraq across the very pourous borders AFTER the country is full
of US troops, it's pretty unrealistic to think we could have kept a
few thousand liters of anthrax from filtering through.

And if the US really believed he had WMD, and then they weren't found,
shouldn't they have concluded that they had to have been spirited out of
the country, and shouldn't there have been a massive panic to find them?

I suspect there was... I'll wager there is a lot of searching going on
now that "won't make the news" for obvious reasons. And heck, if
they're finding jet fighters buried in the desert, there are obviously
some places we haven't looked IN Iraq yet.

Mark Hickey