[neverdem]

The Report That Nails Saddam

Check comment# 28 on this thread about WMD in the Duelfer(sp?) report.

[okie01]

Technically, shells and rockets with poison gas loads constitute WMD. But, realistically, they are pretty small potatoes when measured against nuclear or biological weapons.

For example, if Sarin-tipped artillery shells had constituted the known sum of Saddam's WMD programs, they would not have represented a sufficient reason to go to war -- on their own. It was the suspected presence of a nuclear program and known biological weapon research that drove the decision.

And, to my mind, fully justifies it still.