Again, I’ll ask, where are those weapons of mass destruction?
By: Hank Kalet
Either the Bush administration thinks the American public is stupid or gullible or the folks in the executive branch are a bit dense themselves.
That’s the only conclusion I can draw from their latest statements on the That’s the newest line from the folks in Washington who brought you Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is the same group that spent the better part of the fall, winter and early spring telling horrid tales of dangers to come if Saddam was not disarmed.
So now they are backpedaling (check out this story in The Washington Post):
"The U.S. invasion force moved so quickly into Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday in response to questions at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, that the Iraqis ‘didn’t have time to . . . use chemical weapons. . . . They may have had time to destroy them, and I don’t know the answer.’"
But, if you read Christopher Hitchens on Slate the former arch-leftist turned military apologist it doesn’t matter if there are weapons. Taking out Saddam was a good thing. (He also dismisses the notion that the war may have destabilized the region and may lead to more terrorism. I’m not sure he’s wrong on that aside from the looting of the nuclear waste facility, which could put some dangerous material in some dangerous hands.)
Saddam certainly will not be missed. He was a brutal dictator. But the missing weapons are important because they speak to the Bush administration’s credibility on the world stage. (Here’s an editorial from The Scotsman of Scotland.)

