WMD’s In Iraq
The big story making the blog rounds this evening is the release of a formerly classified document detailing some 500 chemical warheads found in Iraq.
Hot Air has pretty much all the information you'll need on that.
What I'm wondering is why this is such a big deal? Ok, we didn't know about these particular weapons before, yet we've found chemical weapons in Iraq previously. Polish troops came across a whole mess of them nearly two years ago, and a couple of months before that our own troops found artillery shells filled with sarin gas.
For those who have been paying attention, these 500 chemical warheads aren't anything all that surprising. That Saddam had stuff like this has been known for years. The revelations that he had the stuff from years past didn't impress critics of the war then and these new revelations aren't likely to impress them now.
I guess it's important, with Iraq being debated in the Senate right now, for Americans (and American politicians) to get this sort of reminder, but I just don't see it changing anyone's position.
Hot Air has pretty much all the information you'll need on that.
What I'm wondering is why this is such a big deal? Ok, we didn't know about these particular weapons before, yet we've found chemical weapons in Iraq previously. Polish troops came across a whole mess of them nearly two years ago, and a couple of months before that our own troops found artillery shells filled with sarin gas.
For those who have been paying attention, these 500 chemical warheads aren't anything all that surprising. That Saddam had stuff like this has been known for years. The revelations that he had the stuff from years past didn't impress critics of the war then and these new revelations aren't likely to impress them now.
I guess it's important, with Iraq being debated in the Senate right now, for Americans (and American politicians) to get this sort of reminder, but I just don't see it changing anyone's position.
