[Travis McGee]

Oh sure, all countries put their innocent pesticide plants out in the desert, and then go to incredible lengths to camouflage them from the air. That's typical, all innocent pesticide plants are hidden and camouflaged.

[CatOwner]

Please read the rest of the posts claiming that there is indeed backpedeling (at least on the part of the press) and let's wait a few days. Then let's come back and discuss it.

[Southack]

"Oh sure, all countries put their innocent pesticide plants out in the desert, and then go to incredible lengths to camouflage them from the air. That's typical, all innocent pesticide plants are hidden and camouflaged."

You've got to remember that what you see might be accurate, or it might be an intentional deception.

Presuming that our soldiers on scene are correct in saying that the facility "looks" like a chemical factory (to rule out things like a storage area for money, drugs, whores, ammo, etc.), then it might be:

A. the real deal (i.e. a chemical weapons factory),
B. a dummy factory meant to slow us down by erroneously "confirming" that the Iraqis have WMD, or
C. a non-lethal civilian-style chemical factory that for some reason needed 30 armed guards.

I'm suspecting that something got lost in translation, however, and that the two "general officers" mentioned in the article for this thread really doesn't mean that someone is wearing a star on their cap, but more likely that they are captain or major in rank (just 30 soldiers for two generals?? what'd the rest do, get killed or run away?!).