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David Kay has said that despite the fact no WMD have been found,they had the knowledge to sell to terrorist and small amounts are not difficult to make.

But then, he has no proof. Therefore there is no legal or scientific case to be made. He offers an opinion. Not exactly a pretext for war. After all, that is what the stink is about, more in foreign policy circles than among ordinary Americans. It's not certain that it will change many votes in the fall. I tend to doubt it will. The only voters who care about it that much have already made up their minds and they are few in number and are aleady committed to their party.

Iraq's scientists could easily have cashed in by selling their knowledge as the nuclear scientist did in Pakistan.He said the war was necessary and that Iraq in the chaotic condition it was in was more dangerous than we had thought.

We're going to have to arrest most of the world if this is the standard for prosecution. You'd have to arrest me because I know how to make or obtain some items that are almost certainly classified as WMD. So do a lot of people on this thread. And Pakistan, our ally, just pardoned the sell-out scientist. We haven't said a word of objection to their harboring and pardoning of a known arms proliferator to the officially declared terrorist states of Iran, Libya, and North Korea.

So, should we now invade Pakistan and get this scientist? He is most certainly guilty of exactly that which you say justifies our invasion of Iraq and arrest of Saddam and his scientists.

Are there announced plans for prosecution of Saddam's scientists for WMD proliferation? Or even for their domestic production efforts inasmuch as we can even find evidence that they did produce any WMD weapons?

Don't get me wrong. I personally would like to end all of this discussion by finding a big cache of WMD in Iraq somewhere.

And Pakistan, our ally, just pardoned the sell-out scientist. We haven't said a word of objection to their harboring and pardoning of a known arms proliferator to the officially declared terrorist states of Iran, Libya, and North Korea.

Oh, come now. Surely it's clear what's going on here. A deal was made, and doubtless we (The United States) signed off on it: Pardon of Khan, and coverup of Paki government involvement, in exchange for full disclosure of the nuclear poliferation network. An very good deal, IMHO, and probably necessary to acheive full cooperation from those involved and get the most detailed intelligence.

Are you telling me you would NOT have agreed to this deal if you were POTUS?