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And by your interpretation, you can have all the WMDs you have space for, as long as you didn't have programs that developed them.



There are 2 seperate arguments here:

1> That Saddam continued to develop WMDs after imposed sanctions. This is the big one. This is primarily what the Bush Administration wants proof of because it's the most significant unsubstantiated (so far in concrete evidence) claim that they made.

2> The Saddam hid stockpiles of the weapons he was supposed to destroy under UN rulings.

Obviously, finding a weapon made ~1990 doesn't support any argument that he continued developing weapons after the Persian Gulf War.

And the military has determined that the shells found were very likely misappropriated or misplaced shells from the many movements or armaments that Saddam made. In other words, they're not proof of any sort of stock-piling because there were found on a one-off occasion, were placed by lone rebels who likely just came across a single shell somehow, and were used in such a way that the person who placed them did not appear to know what they had (sarin-tipped shells as opposed to regular shells).

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This is actually all moot. Say we never find "the right kind" of WMDs, what does it really matter?



Doesn't matter a damn to me. Politically, it's huge. It matters a HUGE deal to the Bush Administration. If they could find it, November is in the bag, and the US regains a great deal of cred in the international community.

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