Do the WMD stretch!
I'm amused by some of the attempts this week to take what is almost certainly a scavenged relic of 1980's-era chemical weapons, something that was found exploded - apparently mildly - in a bag - and turn it into a validation for the invasion of Iraq. Some reports mention this "partial detonation" as something that occurred while the jerry-rigged roadside mine was being disarmed, but I have to wonder if such a mild release wasn't more a case of an aged bit of ordnance beginning to fall apart. Indeed, the field tests only indicated sarin, and more testing is necessary to find out if that's what it contained.
In the bigger picture, we were lied to. Our legislators were lied to, and in a pique of fear they turned over far too much power to people with agendas wholly their own. Our troops abroad, their families at home, and the US taxpayer (well, most of us) are left to take the beating for it.
Comments