[LS]

As to WMDs, though there are some realities:

Japan (today, posted here on FR) said Iraq had WMDs just before the war;

An Iraqi official (today, posted here on FR) said Iraq had WMDs just before the war;

the intel services of Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, and Germany in addition to the CIA, all said Saddam had WMDs just before the war;

the toxin levels in the Tigris have NEVER been explained. That story was dumped like a hot potato. The gas trucks were never sufficiently explained.

Now, I could believe the CIA was wrong---they were at some points in the Cold War. But I think it ridiculous to think that ALL THESE NATIONS, with their independent methods of verification (many not nearly so "nice" as the CIA's) all come to the same conclusion . . . and that all of them are wrong. That does not compute.

[sarasmom]

It computes for people who think Intel plays politics the same way the Politicians and Diplomats do, and rely on ABCCBSNBCCNNBBC as their primary news sources.

Hard to believe that the same people who live and work in an economic reality of just-in-time production dont grasp that the concept will also be applied to expensive WMD finished products.
The media keeps looking for warehoused product,as if lethal WMD munitions have no shelf life, and dont require expensive and dangerous maintenance facilities.
Expensive maintenance being the operative words.
Sigh!
Oh well, I am obviously preaching to the choir here.

[rintense]

You are being far too reasonable and level headed. STOP IT! ;)