Thursday, December 15, 2005

WMD in Syria?

With all due respect to the President, I find the "all of the intelligence was wrong" admission weak. It's pretty hard for me to believe that everyone - and I mean everyone - concluded one thing, and the exact opposite was the case.

And then I read this from the NY Sun:

Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says. The assertion comes as President Bush said yesterday that much of the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was incorrect.

The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war.

"He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria," General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. "No one went to Syria to find it."

This seems much more plausible for a number of reasons: (1) The infrastructure was in place to develop these weapons, but no weapons were found; (2) We're only talking about several semis full of materials, so moving them would have been fairly easy; (3) We have satellite photos showing the makeup of weapons facilities changing dramatically overnight; and (4) The freakin' Mossad knows all.

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