[aruanan]

"I have every belief that some of these weapons could be found as we move forward," Zebari, an Iraqi Kurd, told a news conference in Sofia. "They have been hidden in certain areas. The system of hiding was very sophisticated."

We'd be much closer to the actual state of affairs if those who so loudly proclaim that the fact we have not yet found Iraqi WMD means they don't exist at all were to acknowledge honestly how hard they've had to look for their keys or a check or some other item in their own homes before finding it, an object simply misplaced, not hidden, and then
1. think about how easily they would have found it had someone deliberately hidden it,
2. consider how easily they would have found it had someone deliberately hidden it, not in their house, but somewhere on their block, and
3. consider how well-hidden something could be given millions of dollars and an entire country, much of it sparsely populated, in which to hide it.

[plain talk]

Well stated. My concern with this issue is the shallow reasoning being used for some to emphatically state that WMDs don't exist. I certainly don't know what happened to them. The lack of humility in such matters is interesting.