Where’s My WMD II
In earlier entries here and here I discussed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Fred Kaplan has an interesting article in Slate about Colin Powell’s speech to the UN in February regarding Iraq’s WMD. He goes through all of the evidence presented by Powell and shows how virtually none of it has not held up. The only remaining bits to support the existence of WMD in pre-war Iraq are the wire intercepts discussing moving or hiding WMD. Kaplan surmises that this evidence may have been faked (like the Nigerian uranium document) or planted. Disappointingly, there was no mention in the article of the point The Cultural Elite has been making about errors in the transcription of those intercepts.
Another interesting tidbit in Kaplan’s article is a link to the LA Times story yesterday about the chaos that reigned in Iraq’s military in the waning days of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Regarding WMD, the story says this:
Commanders interviewed for this article said they were issued no orders regarding chemical or biological weapons. And they denied that Iraq ever possessed such weapons.
Now that sounds convincing.
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