In one of the lesser noticed parts of the Duelfer report on Iraq's nonexistent WMD's which came out last week, we learned that Iraq is in fact getting very very close to developing Chemical weapons.
Not before the war. Now. Right now.
How pathetic, scary, and predictable would you say this is? We went into Iraq using the B.S. excuse that Iraq was armed to the teeth with WMD. Instead, we unleashed a torrent of chaos across a country that has a weapons program which had been extinct for roughly 12 years.
Now that we've unleashed that chaos and founded a brand new, anti-U.S. movement, that movement has discovered that...some of the people who worked on Iraq's WMD programs a decade ago are still around, unaccounted for, unemployed, and angry at the U.S. And guess what? They're helping the insurgents do what Iraq couldn't do when they were loaded with inspectors.
Insurgent networks across Iraq are increasingly trying to acquire and use toxic nerve gases, blister agents and germ weapons against U.S. and coalition forces, according to a CIA report. Investigators said one group recruited scientists and sought to prepare poisons over seven months before it was dismantled in June.
An exhaustive report released last week by Charles A. Duelfer, the CIA's chief weapons investigator in Iraq, concluded that Saddam Hussein destroyed his stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s and never tried to rebuild them. But a little-noticed section of the 960-page report says the risk of a "devastating" attack with unconventional weapons has grown since the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq last year.
Luckily, we managed to catch one group that had made significant progress before they could succeed in producing anything fully weaponized. This of course begs the question...if 1 group came near succeeding, how many others are there out in Iraq, maybe in the no-go zone of Fallujah or holed up deep in Sadr city, working on the same thing?
Checklist of Bush's Iraq war WMD successes and failures:
Countries with lower WMD capacity since the war:
Lybia.
Countries with higher WMD capacity since the war:
North Korea
Iran
Iraq.
Any questions?