First see
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036116/posts "I am the one responsible for providing this information," al-Dabbagh, 40, told the Telegraph when shown the dossier. "It is 100 percent accurate."
"Forget 45 minutes, we could have fired these within half-an-hour," he was quoted as saying.
Now, he does not say what has happened to the stuff, but that they had it. Considering how large Iraq is, it is going to take time. Think back to the centrifuge under the rose bush at a scientist's home and the jets buried in the desert. Also, there have been reports that the stuff was trucked out of the country and is in Syria or Lebanon.
Second, the UN did not even enforce its own resolutions (which I think would involve military action if Iraq did not do as required).
I don't agree with the way we financed the war & rebuilding, there were/are other ways of doing it. The Lucom plan looks like an interesting way of taking care of people like Saddam and Bin Laden. I would have prefered doing loans, not grants, for the rebuilding.
As far as the next country (I am no neocon), I would take North Korea to task for threats they have made towards us.
I would also seriously start looking at China over the threats that have made towards us over Tiawan. I would go in front of the UN and demand they be held accountable, file some resolutions, etc. I realize that the UN will do nothing, but will give you a sense of who is on which side.
"I am the one responsible for providing this information," al-Dabbagh, 40, told the Telegraph when shown the dossier. "It is 100 percent accurate."Sheesh. Is any source not questionable? Or is it just when they don't agree with the administration does it become questionable? Why should we believe him? Thousands of man hours by 'our' inspectors and top of the line technology can't find a thing, but hey we've got this out of work general wanting to stay on the good side of the US Armed Forces so it must be true!! If it is, then I'm quite sure he would be able to lead inspectors to the 'cache'.
That is unless he has selective amnesia, but then of course there will be some excuse for that too won't there?