Hugh just covered this on his show ...
I do have some questions that I hope can be answered here:
Over the past year, I've periodically heard about these HUGE ammo dumps in Iraq the size of a small county or so, that would take a VERY long time to sift through.
Now:
1) Could someone ballpark how far along are we in looking through them (e.g., 20%, 50%, 80%)?
2) Are we sure that we know about all these dumps, or could there be more yet to be found, in spite of their size? (Never mind all that desert that could have something buried in it like the Mig jets, not to mention Syria Public/Clandestine Storage Co.)
3) How thorough is this inspection regime, i.e., do they automatically dismiss an artillery shell as "conventional" if they don't see the "green band" or some other obvious external indicator of a non-conventional round? Or are they taking them apart one by one? If it's the latter, wouldn't that take YEARS even under the best of circumstances (i.e., as many personnel as they want working 24/7)?
4) Is David Kay really in the same league with Blix? He sounds relatively even-handed to me (said Iraq was still dangerous due to the technology available to terrorists 'wandering through') and he is the guy who found stuff back in '98, isn't he?
We need answers to these questions NOW. Or at least I do...