May 30, 2003

Still No Weapons Found

It's not encouraging to hear a general in Iraq calling the threat of chemical attack by Saddam to have been "simply wrong." Tony Blair may tell me to have patience, but something, some evidence of chemical or biological materials should have been found by now.

Steven is right that "there are intellectually honest reason[s] to say that the war was worthwhile sans WMDs (and I remain unconvinced that there are none whatsoever)." But the reason the administration used to convince the public that war was needed were the WMDs and Iraq's ties to terrorism. The latter has been shown to be true to me, but I'm still waiting on the former.

As I've written previously freeing Iraqis was nice but going to war war predicated on Iraq being a threat to the U.S. In hindsight, it isn't looking like as much of a threat as I first believed.

"US Intel 'Simply Wrong' on Chemical Attack-General"

"Angry Blair Says UK Did Not Invent WMD Evidence"