Each next move in a chess game is very critical. So will be our nations. Stepping beyond the principle of freeing Iraq, into the next phase of the war on terrorism, will not be 'easy'.
All the important and new stuff (WMD's) from Iraq went somewhere. Guess where? Wanna See?
I keep kicking myself wondering why I did not save the link to the article and story about the 3 ships leaving the Iraqi port (hull down and loaded) in December of 2002...Right before we got serious and started staging troops in Kuwait...
The pictures I remember were of a type of ship very well suited to load and off load chemicals and other dangerous liquid cargo...They were chemical "parcel" tankers...Meaning they could carry volumous amounts of the same or different substances in separate tanks within the ship...And in tank vessels above deck...
They made a big deal about spotting them, and it was a news item for about 24 hours...Then nothing...
I can imagine what happened...Either they are undocumented "hazards to navigation" now...Or they made it all the way around to Syria...Or other similar nation...
They weren't carrying baby formula this time...